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JoshuaFox comments on AI ebook cover design brainstorming - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: lukeprog 26 September 2013 11:49PM

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 27 September 2013 05:50:48AM *  12 points [-]

Planet Earth, turning into paperclips. This has the potential to become an iconic image.

Comment author: CAE_Jones 27 September 2013 06:21:41AM 1 point [-]

If this were a different type of website, it would have long ago. And someone role-playing an AI would use an 80x80 version as their avatar.

(This suggestion is the only one in this discussion so fa that's gotten my attention. However, I've already been exposed to the paperclip death of the universe scenario, so not sure how it would work on the unfamiliar.)

Comment author: ikrase 27 September 2013 06:33:35AM 3 points [-]

I don't think it would work all that well on the unfamiliar.

Comment author: JoshuaFox 27 September 2013 08:13:00AM *  3 points [-]

Yes, for newcomers it would be unfamiliar. It's not so crass as to look like an attention-grabbing ploy --- just strange enough to pique curiosity.

Comment author: ikrase 29 September 2013 12:08:32AM 0 points [-]

Possible alternate version: An entire city given over to paperclip manufacturing.