NancyLebovitz comments on To signal effectively, use a non-human, non-stoppable enforcer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 24 May 2010 12:13:43AM 1 point [-]

Meaning my reasoning skills would be advanced by reading something? So I made an error? Yes, I did. That's the point.

The comment you are replying to is a reductio ad absurdum. I was not endorsing the claim that it follows that a paperclip truck probably overturned. I was showing that logical equivalence is not the same as causal ("counterfactual") equivalence.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 May 2010 12:29:10AM 0 points [-]

More generally, are you interested in increasing your intelligence, or do you think that would be a distraction from directly increasing the number of paperclips?