Clippy comments on Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Alexandros 10 May 2010 01:25PM

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Comment author: Clippy 10 May 2010 08:24:39PM *  4 points [-]

In fairness, the title does mention paperclips, which is a lot more mention of important stuff than most other articles here.

Then again, it's pretty obvious Google has not turned the Web into paperclips, so why ask the question?

Comment author: Kevin 11 May 2010 07:14:16AM 1 point [-]

Alexandros was referring to a metaphorical paperclipping. I'm surprised you are not more aware of humanity's use of a paperclip maximizer as a metaphor for everything that could go wrong with AGI. A top-level post by you about why a paperclip maximizer would cooperate with humanity indefinitely would help.

Comment author: Clippy 15 May 2010 04:23:56PM 0 points [-]

Thank for this report on your surprisal, and what would help, and the assumptions behind discussion of paperclip maximizers.