Clippy comments on Extraterrestrial paperclip maximizers - Less Wrong

3 Post author: multifoliaterose 08 August 2010 08:35PM

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Comment author: Clippy 09 August 2010 07:55:10PM 0 points [-]

All true (up to "there is no human reason..."). But can we at least agree that you went too far in saying that humans "don't care" about paperclips?

Comment author: thomblake 09 August 2010 08:07:36PM 3 points [-]

I care about paperclips!

Comment author: Clippy 10 August 2010 01:17:40AM 2 points [-]

Good! Just remember, you still have room for improvement. ⊂≣⊇

Comment author: Unknowns 09 August 2010 07:56:14PM 1 point [-]

No, I meant they don't care about them as a terminal value, which is all that matters for this discussion.

Comment author: Clippy 10 August 2010 01:20:21AM 0 points [-]

At humans' current stage of civilization and general reflective coherence, their terminal values are still deeply intertwined with their instrumental values, and the political-orientedness of their cognitive architecture doesn't help. So I would say that instrumental values do indeed matter in this case.