skeptical_lurker comments on The paperclip maximiser's perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 01 May 2015 09:04:16AM 6 points [-]

Happy ending: she is now working in nanotechnology, hoping to design self-replicating assemblers that will clog the world with molecular-scale paperclips, wipe out all life on Earth and continue to sustainably manufacture paperclips for millions of years.

Fool! The Earth is just one planet, but by preserving paperclip-valuing intelligence, interstellar travel can be developed and the whole universe can be paperclipped.

Comment author: Transfuturist 04 May 2015 09:07:32PM *  0 points [-]

She is preserving paperclip-valuing intelligence by protecting herself from the potential threat of non-paperclip-valuing intelligent life, and can develop interstellar travel herself.

It's a lonely job, but someone has to make the maximum possible amount of paperclips. Someone, and only one. Anyone else would be a waste of paperclip-material.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 05 May 2015 06:48:12AM 1 point [-]

It does say she would die too, - "wipe out all life on Earth" -otherwise I would agree.