There’s a small but finite chance of the paperclipper slipping enough bits to produce something worthwhile, like life.
Within a system of self-replicating information...maybe, just maybe, you’ll start getting little selfish bits that are more concerned with replicating themselves than they are with making paperclips. It all starts from there.
Assuming, of course, that the greater part of the paperclipper doesn’t just find a way to crush these lesser selfish pieces. They’re basically cancer.
Oh, OK then. On this site I usually understand “paperclipper” to mean “something that will transform all the universe into paperclips unless stopped by someone smarter than it”, not just “something really good at making paperclips without supervision”. Someone please hit me with a clue stick if I’ve been totally wrong about that.
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Within a system of self-replicating information...maybe, just maybe, you’ll start getting little selfish bits that are more concerned with replicating themselves than they are with making paperclips. It all starts from there.
Assuming, of course, that the greater part of the paperclipper doesn’t just find a way to crush these lesser selfish pieces. They’re basically cancer.
Oh, OK then. On this site I usually understand “paperclipper” to mean “something that will transform all the universe into paperclips unless stopped by someone smarter than it”, not just “something really good at making paperclips without supervision”. Someone please hit me with a clue stick if I’ve been totally wrong about that.
You’ve gotten it right this time.