We happen to like things like ice cream and happiness. But we could have liked paperclips. We could have liked them a lot, and not liked anything else enough to have it instead of paperclips. If that had happened, we’d want to turn everything into paperclips—even ourselves and each other!
What’s an easy way to explain the paperclip thing?
We happen to like things like ice cream and happiness. But we could have liked paperclips. We could have liked them a lot, and not liked anything else enough to have it instead of paperclips. If that had happened, we’d want to turn everything into paperclips—even ourselves and each other!