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By any means necessary, by God, we shall have Paperclips.
by kridsdale1 12d ago
By any means necessary, by God, we shall have Paperclips.
- charlesrice 12d agoHopefully fewer than 5 octillion paperclips...
- stymaar 12d agoIt's kind of ironic that the word alignment, which used to mean this very problem in reinforcement learning, has been perverted to mean something very different and then fell out of fashion (in favor of “guardrails” in the mouth of the big labs) right at the moment it became relevant.
- waffletower 12d agoThe Paperclip Maximizer is only one of Nick Bostrom's stupid and outlandishly far-fetched ideas. In this case, the lack of consideration for geologic, energy and supply constraints is such a massive facepalm. And if I am wrong I guess no one will be here to say how stupid I was in saying this today.
- fragmede 11d agoIt's a metaphor.
- waffletower 6d agoIt is an extremely weak metaphor for a weak class of unlikely doomsday scenarios. You don't need Occam's Razor to discount this cinema-induced malaise; clumsy use of a rusty can-opener would suffice.