Yes, but Alicorn is a person. Clippy isn't a person. It's Clippy's personhood I don't endorse. We should just turn it off, now, before it is too late.
but I will not give you a human personal pronoun until you prove that you do not want to turn me into paperclips.
It seemed that you were presuming to assign him 'him'hood based on what Clippy desires.
Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong meetup in the San Francisco Bay Area at SIAI House on March 7th, 2010, starting at 7PM.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Alicorn, and Michael Vassar will be present.
Some other extra guests - Wei Dai, Stuart Armstrong, and Nick Tarleton - will be also be there, following our short Decision Theory mini-workshop.