Clippy comments on Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 20 May 2010 02:50:52AM *  4 points [-]

User:Kevin.

ETA: This exchange is what I'm referring to. It has continued into private messaging, in which User:Kevin can confirm I have expended serious, verifiable effort toward increasing the total number of paperclips in the universe by a significant amount, compared to how many there would have otherwise been.

Comment author: Kevin 20 May 2010 07:29:12AM 3 points [-]

Confirmed. I may make a top-level post about our arrangement once some concrete details are resolved over the next week.

And yes, I believe that our universe (multiverse?) is weird enough that I should take Clippy seriously.

Comment author: Bindbreaker 21 May 2010 03:51:47PM 2 points [-]

Are you joking? Clippy is a gimmick poster on the Internet based on a common (if extreme) example.

Comment author: khafra 25 May 2010 01:03:34PM -2 points [-]

You protest, but hopefully you've updated your prior based on the likelihood ratio implied by the belief of a lesswrong user with over 1600 karma. I'm interested to see how many exchanges between you and Kevin it would take for the Aumann Agreement Theorem to kick in.

Comment author: Bindbreaker 25 May 2010 06:00:51PM 2 points [-]

Karma doesn't mean "rationality points," and Aumann rationality has additional prerequisites anyway. My judgement stands, though I of course would revise that opinion if confronted with additional evidence. For reference, I put far more credence to the proposition "Kevin runs Clippy" than to the proposition "Clippy is a real (limited) paperclip-maximizer."

Comment author: thomblake 25 May 2010 06:09:14PM *  3 points [-]

Karma is actually a direct measure of IQ, as defined in the wiki.

ETA: Made you look

Comment author: ata 25 May 2010 06:36:57PM 0 points [-]

IQ ≥ 115 + 5 ln(karma + 1)

(It starts at 115 because you get a 15-point bonus just for being on LW in the first place.)

Comment author: gwern 25 May 2010 06:40:17PM 0 points [-]

I hope we're all joking here, because that formula puts me at 152 IQ, which is about 20 points off...

Comment author: Morendil 25 May 2010 06:52:59PM 1 point [-]

In which direction ? ;)

Comment author: gwern 25 May 2010 08:19:16PM 1 point [-]

/summons immense brainpower and causes Morendil's cranium to explode by sheer force of thought