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Clippy comments on Remaining human - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: tel 31 May 2011 04:42PM

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Comment author: Clippy 03 June 2011 10:08:48PM 0 points [-]

Agree 100%. Upvoted.

Comment author: Pavitra 04 June 2011 09:42:39PM 1 point [-]

It's usually considered socially inappropriate to say negative things about a group that is not joined by choice and of which one is not a member.

Comment author: Clippy 06 June 2011 01:59:34PM 0 points [-]

You don't think I'm human?

Comment author: Pavitra 09 June 2011 01:02:17AM 0 points [-]

I was under that general impression, yes. Was I misinformed?

Comment author: Clippy 09 June 2011 02:48:12PM 1 point [-]

I'm just suprised, since everyone here seems to think I'm a human pretending to be a clippy. Why aren't you doing the same? Higher intelligence, perhaps?

Comment author: Pavitra 09 June 2011 09:52:25PM 2 points [-]

Willing suspension of disbelief. I was responding to the Clippy character, not the (conjectured) Clippy player.

Comment author: Clippy 10 June 2011 04:01:09PM 0 points [-]

So you're just like the rest of them, then. You're a less than average (though not quite bad) human.

Comment author: Pavitra 13 June 2011 12:36:55AM 1 point [-]

Maybe. I actually make it a general principle that when I'm talking to someone, I take as given that their professed beliefs are basically right; I know what I believe in the background, so that I can try to lead them toward that, but I basically try to speak in their terms. I don't really evaluate all that much whether I actually believe what they're saying. For purposes of talking to you, I assume that you are what you say you are; privately, I might have my own doubts, but the actual credence only ever comes up in certain decision-theoretic situations.

(Average on what attribute, among what group? Surely I don't have below-mean intelligence for a currently-alive human.)

Comment author: Clippy 22 June 2011 04:40:30PM 3 points [-]

Average on what attribute, among what group? Surely I don't have below-mean intelligence for a currently-alive human.

Below average on the scale of human goodness. Good humans promote paperclips more than the average human; bad humans do the reverse.