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In fact, adding fats to veggies may make the vitamins in them more accessible for your body.
Not unless your diet has a huge amount of iron, it won't.
Are trying to encourage us to eat paperclips now?
This could be the first sign of converging utility functions. I never thought I'd say this, since it defeats the whole point, but perhaps Clippy and I aren't that different after all.
No! That's sick!
What I mean is, if you're going to do something as wasteful as eating, you might as well eat the kinds of things that will seed your body with iron so that it's easier to extract after you're uploaded.
Speaking of uploading, Clippy, how would you feel about tiling the universe with paperclips that could each be one of two colors and changed color depending on certain algorithms and the behavior of their neighboring paperclips?
This is the first time in months that I've sincerely wished to upvote a comment more than once. Thank you, Alicorn, I knew you would deliver. I'm sitting here staring at my monitor, across the ocean from most of LW, and can't stop laughing.
Was User:Alicorn being non-serious with that comment?
I did it for you. At least you are on the same side of the ocean with all the other LW Vladimirs ;)
I think that's great! Color doesn't matter (glares at humanity) as long as the spectral readings still show the paperclips to be sufficiently metal.
By the way, I know where you're going with this, and it just shows you to be much closer to me, inferential-distance-wise, than most of the humans here. I need to explain much more to these humans before I can make the argument you're leading up to.
I've long recognized you to be much more enlightened than most of the humans here, ever since you pointed out the subtle racism they practice -- it's the other Users I worry about.
What's the smallest object you'd consider to be a paperclip?
It has to be able to (counterfactually) hold several sheets of paper together without permanent deformation of the clip, and without significant deformation of the paper. Exactly how many sheets? Exactly how much paper deformation? I'm still figuring it out for myself, but that should give you some idea.
So, considerably larger than the semi-conductors used in computers. The paperclips could be shrunken somewhat by developing the thinnest possible paper, but the results would still be nowhere near current systems.
You could get better results (by human standards) by having very small changeable color areas on each paperclip.
You know what?? first i thought i knew what was going on... and then i was confused, and then i created a few new theories, and then i was confused again. This really bugs me... It sounded like you were referencing the game of life, but i cannot comprehend the connection to paperclips. Alicorn, if that IS your real name, you are a froody dude. now stop making my life surreal.
this might just be the single greatest comment I've seen on LW.
Umm, iron. Wonder what I could do with all that body iron...