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Yes. You can convince a sufficiently rational paperclip maximizer that killing people is Yudkowsy::evil, but you can't convince it to not take Yudkowsy::evil actions, no matter how rational it is. AKA the orthogonality thesis (when talking about other minds) and “the utility function is not up for grabs” (when talking about ourselves).