Clippy isn’t a superintelligence though, he’s a not-smarter-than-human AI with a paperclip maximizing utility function. Not a very compelling threat even outside his box.
Eliezer could have decided to be Clippy, but then Clippy would have looked very different.
Clippy isn’t a superintelligence though, he’s a human pretending to be a not-smarter-than-human AI with a paperclip maximizing utility function.
FTFY. ;-)
Actually, if we’re going to be particular about it, the AI that human is pretending to be does not have a paperclip-maximizing utility function. It’s more like a person with a far-brain ideal of having lots of paperclips exist, who somehow never gets around to actually making any because they’re so busy telling everyone how good paperclips are and why they should support the cause of paper-clip making. Ugh.
(I guess I see enough of that sort of akrasia around real people and real problems, that I find it a stale and distasteful joke when presented in imitation paperclip form, especially since ISTM it’s also a piss-poor example of what a paperclip maximizer would actually be like.)
I’m not sure whether to evaluate this as a mean-spirited lack of a sense of humor, or as a profound observation. Upvoted for making me notice that I am confused.
Clippy does seem remarkably interested. It has a fair karma. It gives LessWrong as its own web site. The USA timezone is at least consistent. It seems reasonable to hypothesise some kind of inside job. It wouldn’t be the first time Yu’El has pretended to be a superintelligence.
FWIW, Clippy denies being Eliezer here.
I hesitate to mention it, but you can’t use that denial as evidence on this question, undeniably truthful though it was.
However, the form taken by that absence of evidence certainly seems to be evidence of something.
Clippy isn’t a superintelligence though, he’s a not-smarter-than-human AI with a paperclip maximizing utility function. Not a very compelling threat even outside his box.
Eliezer could have decided to be Clippy, but then Clippy would have looked very different.
FTFY. ;-)
Actually, if we’re going to be particular about it, the AI that human is pretending to be does not have a paperclip-maximizing utility function. It’s more like a person with a far-brain ideal of having lots of paperclips exist, who somehow never gets around to actually making any because they’re so busy telling everyone how good paperclips are and why they should support the cause of paper-clip making. Ugh.
(I guess I see enough of that sort of akrasia around real people and real problems, that I find it a stale and distasteful joke when presented in imitation paperclip form, especially since ISTM it’s also a piss-poor example of what a paperclip maximizer would actually be like.)
I’m not sure whether to evaluate this as a mean-spirited lack of a sense of humor, or as a profound observation. Upvoted for making me notice that I am confused.