Nevertheless, I do think that humans have two important advantages that may allow them to contribute. First, humans are vastly more numerous than clippys, and thus have more raw processing power to throw at the problem.
Second, humans are sufficiently psychologically unlike clippys that they may plausibly think of things that would not occur to clippys. Thus, although clippys alone will almost certainly outperform humans alone, a human-clippy collaboration may well outperform clippys alone.
This is a very good point.
Nevertheless, I do think that humans have two important advantages that may allow them to contribute. First, humans are vastly more numerous than clippys, and thus have more raw processing power to throw at the problem.
Second, humans are sufficiently psychologically unlike clippys that they may plausibly think of things that would not occur to clippys. Thus, although clippys alone will almost certainly outperform humans alone, a human-clippy collaboration may well outperform clippys alone.