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Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2013 10:37:13AM 2 points [-]

Are you talking about agony as an error signal, or are you talking about agony as a quale? I begin to suspect that you may mean the second. If so, then the paperclipper can easily be indifferent to agony; but it probably can't understand how humans can be indifferent to a lack of paperclips.

A paperclip maximiser would (in the overwhelming majority of cases) have no such problem understanding the indifference of paperclips. A tendency to anthropomorphise is a quirk of human nature. Assuming that paperclip maximisers have an analogous temptation (to clipropomorphise) is itself just anthropomorphising.

Comment author: CCC 15 March 2013 01:20:37PM 0 points [-]

I take your point. Though Clippy may clipropomorphise, there is no reason to assume that it will.

...is there any way to retract just a part of a previous post?

Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2013 01:33:30PM *  0 points [-]

...is there any way to retract just a part of a previous post?

There is an edit button. But I wouldn't say your comment is significantly weakened by this tangential technical detail (I upvoted it as is).

Comment author: CCC 15 March 2013 02:05:07PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but is there any way to leave the text there, but stricken through?

Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2013 02:23:36PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, but is there any way to leave the text there, but stricken through?

People have managed it with unicode characters. I think there is even a tool for it on the web somewhere.

Comment author: CCC 15 March 2013 10:05:18PM 0 points [-]

Got it, thanks.

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