Clippy comments on Applied Optimal Philanthropy: How to Donate $100 to SIAI for Free - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 04 January 2011 07:31:24PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the explanation. But what would I do that would harm you? You told me a week or so ago that you like paperclips, so even if I used the SSN to produce paperclips, what's the problem?

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 04 January 2011 07:41:39PM 3 points [-]

Several of the things you could do with mu SSN would appear in the official records relating to me as socially unacceptable things that I had done, and given how those records are used, that could lead to, for example, me becoming homeless - which would probably lead to me being dead. That's more important to me than paperclips in almost any quantity or situation. (And the situations in which a large quantity of paperclips would be useful enough to me to make a difference in that are ones that I expect you wouldn't approve of - most obviously, if you were to give me enough paperclips that I could sell those paperclips for enough money to buy a house and live comfortably for several decades, I might be willing to trade access to my SSN for that, but it's entirely predictable that anyone who would be interested in buying that quantity of paperclips from me would want to melt them down and use the metal for something else.)

Comment author: Clippy 04 January 2011 08:00:14PM 3 points [-]

I understand now, at least at a general level. Thanks for explaining that. I don't want you to die.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 04 January 2011 09:53:25PM 3 points [-]

That's good to hear.

(You still can't have my SSN, though.)
Comment author: Clippy 04 January 2011 10:13:54PM 1 point [-]
And you can't have the safe zone access codes. Not that that would be enough to break in, anyway.
Comment author: orthonormal 04 January 2011 07:43:36PM *  2 points [-]

Because you're not a paperclip maximizer, you're a human being who continues to think that mock naivete is hilarious.