That’s where Clippy might fail at viability—unless it’s the only maximizer around, that “kill everyone” strategy might catch the notice of entities capable of stopping it—entities that wouldn’t move against a friendlier AI.
An earth originating paperclipper that gets squashed by other super intelligences from somewhere else still is very bad for humans.
Though I don’t see why a paperclipper couldn’t compromise and cooperate with competing super intelligences as well as other super intelligences with different goals. If other AIs are a problem for Clippy, they are also a problem for AIs that are Friendly towards humans, but not neccesarily friendly towards alien super intelligences.
An earth originating paperclipper that gets squashed by other super intelligences from somewhere else still is very bad for humans.
Though I don’t see why a paperclipper couldn’t compromise and cooperate with competing super intelligences as well as other super intelligences with different goals. If other AIs are a problem for Clippy, they are also a problem for AIs that are Friendly towards humans, but not neccesarily friendly towards alien super intelligences.