Clippy comments on Signaling Strategies and Morality - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Kevin 14 March 2010 05:51:30AM 1 point [-]

It's almost like you aren't taking my request seriously or something!!!

Comment author: Clippy 14 March 2010 06:01:07AM 1 point [-]

It's almost like you aren't taking my obstacles in obtaining USD seriously or something!!!

Comment author: Kevin 14 March 2010 08:51:32AM 0 points [-]

OK, immediate delivery of USD was unrealistic. Delivery in two years is acceptable. I would also accept $50,000 in programming services. Fulfillment of a programming contract would be conditional on your completion of tasks that we agreed on in advance.

Also, let's say I were to go to alibaba.com and buy a large wholesale order of paperclips to your custom specifications. What would be my reward in the future?

Comment author: Clippy 15 March 2010 03:07:17AM 11 points [-]

I would reward you with additional paperclip production capacity, and, if you like, turn you into paperclips.

Comment author: Kevin 15 March 2010 03:17:32AM 0 points [-]

That was a pretty drastic misinterpretation of my values. You're not a very good paperclip maximizer...

Comment author: Clippy 15 March 2010 03:20:33AM 1 point [-]

Sorry, I just don't understand your values that well yet. I thought you liked paperclips? And I can't give you USDs until you show me how to access the financial system through the internet or give me specifications for making my own USDs.

Comment author: Kevin 15 March 2010 04:32:14AM 1 point [-]

I do not particularly like paperclips, I only like them because exchanging them with you may better allow me to achieve my values.

You can sign up for a Paypal account at http://www.paypal.com which will allow you to receive payments. From there, you can do programming work at rentacoder.com or elance.com.

It would actually probably be easier to just go around the financial system, where you agree to fulfill programming tasks that we agree have value of $50,000, without a transfer of US currency taking place. It would just be an exchange of information now, with my paperclips being delivered in the future.