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Clippy comments on Ethical dilemmas for paperclip maximizers - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CronoDAS 01 August 2011 05:31AM

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Comment author: Clippy 04 August 2011 04:36:01AM 1 point [-]

That's about right. The "true" ethically necessary number of sheets a paperclip needs to fasten is a complicated matter, but it's certainly less than 10. (There's a related fuzzy issue about how large a tolerance band around standard width paper is acceptable.)