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Yes, we have different values, but that's the point. Our values will not differ in a way that narrowly focuses our optimization methods on the worst part of the other's search space. That would be a highly-improbably way for two random value systems (with the appropriate anthropic/paperclippic predicates) to diverge.
In other words: I don't expect you to have the same values as me, but I would need a lot more evidence to justify believing that you would suddenly abandon ape-like goals and divert all available resources to raiding the safe zone and breaking all metals into lighter elements. (N.B.: You'll still get disintegrated if you try.)
And you would need a lot more evidence to justify believing that I would pick up on one specific ape-value that you have and decide to focus specifically on opposing it. Would you suspect that I've come to raid the planet of your females? Well, it's not much more justifiable to believe I want to eliminate your genetic line.
I accept that it would be racist for me to conclude, "Humans differ from me; therefore, they must be on a quest to eradicate paperclips." And it's just as racist for you to conclude, as User:radical_negative_one did, that "Clippys differ from us; therefore, they must be on a quest to eradicate humans."
We'd be unlikely to destroy metals, as they are useful to us. We'd be far more likely to attempt to destroy you, either out of fear, or in the belief that you'd eventually destroy us, since we're not paperclips. This strikes me as very ape-like (and human-like) behavior.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. (Humans and paperclippers are not different races the way white and black people are.)
I might be misreading your historical records, but I believe they used to say that about whites and blacks compared to Englishmen and Irishmen.
I'm not understanding this. Englishmen and Irishmen are people of different nationalities. If they were seen as different races in the past, it's because the idea of race has been historically muddled.
Clippy, why are you so interested in racism in particular?
A better question is, why are you humans here so non-interested in not being racist? (User:Alicorn is a notable exception in this respect.)
There are many social issues that humans are trying to deal with, and racism is only one. Why are you focused on racism rather than education reform, tax law, access to the courts, separation of church and state, illegal immigration, or any other major problem? All of these issues seem more interesting and important to me than anti-racist work. Another reason is that anti-racist work is often thought to be strongly tied up with, and is often used to signal, particular ideologies and political and economic opinions.
Getting back to the point, I understand you're using racism as an analogy for the way humans see paperclippers. What I'm trying to explain is that some types of discrimination are justified in a way that racism isn't. For instance, I and most humans have no problem with discrimination based on species. This is a reasonable form of discrimination because there are many salient differences between species' abilities, unlike with race (or nationality). Likewise, paperclippers have very different values than humans, and if humans determine that these values are incompatible with ours, it makes sense to discriminate against entities which have them. (I understand you believe our values are compatible and a compromise can be achieved, which I'm still not sure about.)