The September Open Thread, Part 2 has got nearly 800 posts, so let's have a little breathing room.
This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.
A discussion of paperclip maximizers (linking here) has made the front page of reddit.
It's interesting to look at people's arguments against paperclip maximizers. There seem to be two related categories that make up most of the objections:
People who can't imagine that a sufficiently intelligent being could be that different from us. One guy tried to claim that morality is universal so of course an artificial intelligence would share our values. Another said that a superintelligence would inevitably realize that its existence was pointless, as if there could possibly be some point other than maximizing the number of paperclips. Another cla