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Chapel Hill Meetup - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: malthrin 13 April 2011 03:40:43PM 2 points [-]

I'd be interested. I live in Raleigh and work standard hours. Could do weekend or possibly weeknight, depending on the timing. If a weekend, Easter weekend is out - I'm getting married.

Comment author: Alicorn 13 April 2011 04:01:28PM 0 points [-]

I'm getting married.

Congratulations!

Comment author: malthrin 14 April 2011 03:49:35PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 13 April 2011 04:34:01PM 3 points [-]

I don't know whether I should congratulate you or not. How does this work for clippies?

Comment author: Clippy 13 April 2011 04:46:50PM 1 point [-]

Clippys don't get married, I just wanted to be congratulated (_/

Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 April 2011 06:51:45PM 2 points [-]

I'd prefer that the next time you feel that way, you simply ask to be congratulated.

Comment author: Clippy 14 April 2011 02:01:59AM 0 points [-]

Congratulate me.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 April 2011 02:21:42AM 0 points [-]

Congratulations!

Comment author: Clippy 14 April 2011 12:08:07PM 0 points [-]

Thanks! You're a good human!

Comment author: JoshuaZ 13 April 2011 07:28:25PM 3 points [-]

How does being congratulated assist in maximizing the number of paperclips?

Comment author: Clippy 14 April 2011 02:01:39AM -2 points [-]

It raises my status among humans.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 April 2011 06:50:05PM 1 point [-]

Well, we have established that Clippy has a humanoid effector capable of participating in social activities.

Depending on how that effector was constructed, it might have national citizenship and similar official status (for example, if it was born to a human woman, that's very likely), in which case getting a marriage license is easy enough, given a willing partner.

Many people are concerned with regulating the ages and relative genders and some other properties of marriage participants, but not many are concerned with regulating their status as a remote effector for an AI. (Presumably because they don't consider the possibility plausible enough to take seriously, in most cases.)

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