Why could you possibly want to help Clippy?
Clippy might be helped to achieve her own goals via mechanisms that are less directly inimical to "human values".
Also she may be able to exchange things with us in the course of advancing her own short term goals such that our interaction is positive sum (this being especially likely if Clippy has a radically different skillset and physicality than our own).
More interestingly, there's a long running philosophical question about whether there is some abstract but relatively universal and objective "Good" versus particular goods (or mer...
We've had these for a year, I'm sure we all know what to do by now.
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