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Nornagest comments on What is/are the definition(s) of "Should"? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 06 June 2011 02:03:11AM *  2 points [-]

Ah. Generally I read "Clippy" as referring to User:Clippy or something like it, who's usually portrayed as having human-parity intelligence and human-parity or fewer resources; I don't think I've ever seen the word used unqualified to describe the monster raving superhuman paperclip maximizer of the original thought experiment.

...and here I find myself choosing my words carefully in order to avoid offending a fictional AI with a cognitive architecture revolving around stationary fasteners. Strange days indeed.