AdeleneDawner comments on When is further research needed? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 05 July 2011 07:43:19PM *  1 point [-]

I think I need to post a Clippy FAQ. Will the LessWrong wiki be OK?

Once again, the paperclip must be able (counterfactually) to fasten several sheets together, and they must be standard thickness paper, not some newly invented special paper.

I understand that that specification doesn't completely remove ambiguity about minimum paperclip mass, and there are certainly "edge cases", but that should answer your questions about what is clearly not good enough.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 05 July 2011 08:07:44PM 0 points [-]

I think I need to post a Clippy FAQ. Will the LessWrong wiki be OK?

If you have an account on the wiki, you have the option of setting up a user page (for example, user:Eliezer_Yudkowsky has one here). It should be okay for you to put a Clippy FAQ of reasonable length on yours.

Comment author: Clippy 22 July 2011 01:02:42AM 1 point [-]

Hi User:AdeleneDawner I put up some of the FAQ on my page.

Comment author: Clippy 05 July 2011 08:12:18PM 1 point [-]

Thanks. I had already started a Wiki userpage (and made it my profile's home page), I just didn't know if it would be human-acceptable to add the Clippy FAQ to it. Right now the page only has my private key.