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45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2013 11:14PM

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Comment author: Clippy 29 April 2013 09:24:39PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for adopting my suggestion to publish more on paperclip-production-relevant topics.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 30 April 2013 02:24:06AM *  3 points [-]

While I'm amused by your existence, the "novelty account" meme is quite virulent and has the potential to lower the signal-to-noise ratio in the comments if everyone starts doing this...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 30 April 2013 05:58:39PM 3 points [-]

There are only so many contextually appropriate novelty names available. It wouldn't make much sense for someone to swoop in and begin posting in character as any random character. So far as I know, we've got Clippy, Voldemort and Quirinus Quirrel, and... one other, maybe?

If people showed up and began noticeably posting in character as random vaguely (anti-)rationality-related characters (Spock, Kamina, Pinkie Pie), we'd have a problem. Fortunately, they don't.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 June 2013 02:00:16PM 0 points [-]

Death

A few others only wrote one or two comments each.

Comment author: Clippy 30 April 2013 08:42:42PM 3 points [-]

While I'm amused by your account name, the "novelty account" meme is quite virulent and has the potential to lower the signal-to-noise ratio in the comments if everyone starts doing this...

Comment author: [deleted] 30 April 2013 02:48:47AM *  1 point [-]

That's what we said when Clippy first started being ridiculous years ago. Luckily, it constrained itself to a few vanity posts, and the phenomena in general didn't really take off.

Admittedly we're just mostly annoyed that people think we're such an account pretending to be an actual made-of-paper kind of machine, but so it goes.

Comment author: CarlShulman 30 April 2013 04:03:13AM *  1 point [-]

What is the story behind the account name, then?

Comment author: [deleted] 30 April 2013 04:05:11AM 1 point [-]

It's a favorite book of mine.