Clippy comments on Ethical dilemmas for paperclip maximizers - Less Wrong

11 Post author: CronoDAS 01 August 2011 05:31AM

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Comment author: gwern 01 August 2011 06:48:24AM *  5 points [-]

Can't say it seems very fun to me; Clippy's utility function is underdefined and not accessible to us anyway. We can debate the details for human utility functions because we have all sorts of shared intuitions which let us go into details, but how do we decide longevity of paperclips is better than number of paperclips? I have no intuitions for clippys.

Comment author: Clippy 02 August 2011 03:17:35PM 2 points [-]

Note: "clippy", as a shortened term for "paperclip maximiser", should be uncapitalized, and should be pluralised as "clippys".

Comment author: gwern 02 August 2011 03:23:53PM 1 point [-]

Duly noted.