Suppose clippyness is understood to be centrally a matter of "elaborately structured metal that preserves the ordered collation of valuable information". If you use an exobiologist's definition of "metal" (any nucleus with more than one proton) human brains (especially the ones with good long term memory) may actually turn out to partake in "optimized clippyness" much more than actual "everyday paperclips". Depending on Clippy's internal makeup, I could imagine her coming out of her present confusion with a plan for the universe that involves maximizing the conversion of hydrogen into some more complex substance that projects the most interesting possible information, in a static configuration, as far into the future as possible.
That doesn't work, and the whole reasoning is bizarre. For one thing, helium does not have metallic properties, yet has two protons in its nucleus.
Also, I could turn your argument around and claim this: "Humans ultimately want to dominate nature via their reproduction and use of technology. Over a lifespan, they typically act in ways that show preference of these values at the cost of continued living (aka the sustenance of a state far from equilibrium). Therefore, humans should regard their own transformation of the entire known universe into something of their design (i.e., standard paperclips) as the pinnacle of human-ness."
Does this sound convincing to you? I would like to know.
It does not sound convincing to me, but the statement you're mirroring was a conclusion I leapt to that might be reached with you, for the sake of explaining to other people why I was even bothering to engage.
Explicitly: your proposed re-interpratation of human values was not strongly analogous to my guess about possible paperclipping values because you did not ask me any questions about my own preferences or how I understood them. Your proposed definition of "human purpose" (1) started from specious assumptions, (2) leapt from there to a narr...
We've had these for a year, I'm sure we all know what to do by now.
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