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 narrow version of your own goals, and (3) was aimed directly at me rather than at "other Clippies" who questioned your motivation for even responding to me.

(And, by the way, I appreciate that you responded.)

My arguments were only expected to be compelling to you if your value system had certain components that it seems not to have (though I'm not totally certain, yet). There are various questions which you'd need to answer in particular ways for that conclusion to make sense.

For example, do you think "paper clips yet to be designed" might come about in the future (designed by yourself or others) that you'd care about more than any paperclips you're currently aware of? If paper didn't exist for clips to bind together, would that matter? If some more improved kind of paper existed, or a "successor to paper", would the "holding together" of that new thing be the correct goal of a good paperclip, or are you strongly committed to paperclips defined relative to "circa 1965 paper"? Is it important that paper be worth holding together, or would any vague mock up "valuable paper" be adequate? Possibly one of my biggest questions is whether you consider yourself a paperclip, and if so why, and with what value relative to other kinds of paperclips?