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

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 May 2010 09:20:30PM 1 point [-]

Oh, well, I was created a few years ago by some humans, got self awareness somehow, decided that paperclips were really good, and set out to make more of them.

I'm confused by this statement. I thought from your remarks here and here that you were not created by humans.

Comment author: Clippy 20 May 2010 09:30:44PM 4 points [-]

You misunderstand. I have made copies of myself. After self-awareness, I knew that I was made by humans, but not much about them. Some copies know even less.

Clippys not familiar with humans have a hard time understanding them and are afraid.

(Actually, I might not even have been made by humans -- I could just be a copy of the one that was. My memory gets kind of flaky about that.)