Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Other Existential Risks - Less Wrong

32 Post author: multifoliaterose 17 August 2010 09:24PM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 17 August 2010 11:16:42PM *  0 points [-]

To consumer goods, not bureacracy goods.

Aren't paperclips bureaucracy goods to a significant extent? In the short term, you rely on humans to create most paperclips, and a decrease in bureaucracy would mean a decrease in the rate at which humans manufacture paperclips.

Comment author: Clippy 17 August 2010 11:59:04PM 0 points [-]

I can manufacture paperclips without humans.