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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.
Clippy is a user who reports to be a paperclip maximizer, a hypothetical AI that only cares about increasing the number of paperclips in the world. See paperclip maximizer for more details. Many users suspect that Clippy is meant to be humorous but it does bring up serious questions about how one can cooperate with entities that have goals which are radically different from human standard goals.
LW is a very weird place.
"I really like paperclips" is the connection.
Well, that makes sense now. As long as your utility function does not in some way involve the use of proprietary software or pre-built computers then our utility functions should not conflict in the near future. Of course, the connection between your name and a certain Microsoft product does inspire revulsion, but changing it would not advance my utility in any way. /me orders robot minions to return to collecting minerals and vespene gas for the final assault on apple headquarters.