Is every paperclip just as important, or each additional paperclip matters less?
Is certain number of paperclips exactly as valuable as half the chance for twice as many paperclips?
You're saying "complexity penalty", but it is not that complex to describe 3^^^3 paperclips. Number of possible paperclips can increase a lot lot faster than complexity.
I've been lurking here a bit, and am trying to understand what people here mean by rationalism. Many articles here seem to refer to discussion participants as rationalist while meaning very seemingly-different things, including intelligent, socially awkward, well-educated, and unencumbered by education. I'm trying to make a little more sense of the word/concept.
Surely it does not refer to rationalist in the empiricism/rationalism divide, because it doesn't seem to be used in quite that way.