TobyBartels comments on Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 15 November 2010 08:15:11AM 2 points [-]

For humans, fun is a utilon. For Clippy?

But there must be some reason that Clippy posts here at all, so this could just be part of it's plans to ingratiate itself with humans (particularly humans who might build AIs, I guess).

Comment author: DSimon 15 November 2010 03:28:06PM *  3 points [-]

Well, fun is a utilon at least partially because Inspector Darwin noticed that games are good training. Perhaps Clippy is motivated by a somewhat similar desire to use games as a means of understanding human behavior, or as a way of developing eir own understanding of game theory.