Well... if we accept the roleplay of Clippy at face value, then Clippy is already an approximately human level intelligence, but not yet a superintelligence. It could go FOOM at any minute. We should turn it off, immediately. It is extremely, stupidly dangerous to bargain with Clippy or to assign it the personhood that indicates we should value its existence.
I will continue to play the contrarian with regards to Clippy. It seems weird to me that people are willing to pretend it is harmless and cute for the sake of the roleplay, when Clippy's value system makes it clear that if Clippy goes FOOM over the whole universe we will all be paperclips.
I can't roleplay the Clippy contrarian to the full conclusion of suggesting Clippy be banned because I don't actually want Clippy to be banned. I suppose repeatedly insulting Clippy makes the whole thing less fun for everyone; I'll stop if I get a sufficiently good response from Clippy.
I will continue to assert that evil people are people too. I'm all for turning him off.
We've had these for a year, I'm sure we all know what to do by now.
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