gwern comments on Signaling Strategies and Morality - Less Wrong

17 Post author: MichaelVassar 05 March 2010 09:09PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 05 March 2010 09:57:22PM 6 points [-]

I was under the impression that Clippy doesn't actually use paperclips, but rather, wants them to exist.

Comment author: gwern 06 March 2010 05:22:48PM 7 points [-]

But if Clippy has them, he can protect them more effectively than if they were in the custody of notoriously paperclip-immoral humans, who will callously sacrifice paperclips just to hold together some papers or shoot rubberbands with!

(If the latter 2 scenarios seem impossibly foul to you, I assure you that I have seen humans do such things with my own eyes, and lightly damn themselves out of their own mouths.)