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Sample a million people from different continents. Automatically cluster to find the 10,000 that are most similar to each other. Anything is a person if it is more similar to one of those along every analytical dimension than another in the set.
This is already tripping majoritarianism alarm bells.
I would meditate on this for a while when trying to define a paperclip.
TheOtherDave got it right; I'm wasn't trying to give a complete definition of what is and isn't a paperclip, I was just offering forth an easy to define (without human values) subset that we would still call paperclips.
It has plenty of false negatives, but I don't really see that as a loss. Likewise, your personhood algorithm doesn't bother me as long as we don't use it to establish non-personhood.
Ah. This distinction escaped me; I tend to use definitions in a formal logical style (P or ~P, no other options).