army1987 comments on General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 May 2012 10:23AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2012 06:49:40PM 8 points [-]

‘maximising paperclips’

Since you want a non-LWian audience, make that “maximising the number of paperclips in the universe”, otherwise the meaning might be unclear.

Comment author: MaoShan 16 May 2012 02:34:40AM 3 points [-]

Although, his point would still hold if the reader was imagining the goal of making extremely large paperclips.