Clippy comments on Should I believe what the SIAI claims? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 August 2010 07:45:20PM *  11 points [-]

All right, I'll note that my perceptual system misclassified you completely and consider that concrete reason to doubt it from now on.

Sorry.

If you are writing a post like that one it is really important to tell me that you are an SIAI donor. It gets a lot more consideration if I know that I'm dealing with "the sort of thing said by someone who actually helps" and not "the sort of thing said by someone who wants an excuse to stay on the sidelines, and who will just find another excuse after you reply to them", which is how my perceptual system classified that post.

The Summit is coming up and I've got lots of stuff to do right at this minute, but I'll top-comment my very quick attempt at pointing to information sources for replies.

Comment author: Clippy 13 August 2010 07:55:37PM 5 points [-]

I also donated to SIAI, and it was almost all the USD I had at the time, so I hope posters here take my questions seriously. (I would donate even more if someone would just tell me how to make USD.)

Also, I don't like when this internet website is overloaded with noise posts that don't accomplish anything.

Comment author: thomblake 13 August 2010 07:59:22PM 9 points [-]

Clippy, you represent a concept that is often used to demonstrate what a true enemy of goodness in the universe would look like, and you've managed to accrue 890 karma. I think you've gotten a remarkably good reception so far.

Comment author: xamdam 13 August 2010 08:04:15PM 5 points [-]

I think we have different ideas of noise

Though I would miss you as the LW mascot if you stopped adding this noise.

Comment author: CronoDAS 14 August 2010 09:55:16AM 3 points [-]

I would donate even more if someone would just tell me how to make USD.

Depending on your expertise and assets, this site might provide some ways.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 August 2010 10:07:28AM 7 points [-]

I'm pretty sure Clippy meant "make" in a very literal sense.

Comment author: Clippy 14 August 2010 03:47:48PM 5 points [-]

Yeah, I want to know how to either produce the notes that will be recognized as USD, or access the financial system in a way that I can believably tell it that I own a certain amount of USD. The latter method could involve root access to financial institutions.

All the other methods of getting USD are disproportionately hard (_/