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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 19 July 2013 12:57:52AM 2 points [-]

A hypothetical AI programmed to run a paperclip factory

That is not what is meant around here by "paperclip maximiser". A true clippy does not run a factory; it transmutes the total mass of the solar system into paperclips, starting with humans and ending with the computer it runs on. (With the possible exception of some rockets containing enough computing power to repeat the process on other suns.) That is what it means to maximise something.