And Clippy is particularly exceptional example of an AI. So why do people keep saying “Ah, but Clippy...”...?
Well, in this case it’s because the post I was responding to mentioned Clippy a couple of times, so I thought it’d be worthwhile to mention how the little bugger fits into the overall picture of value stability. It’s indeed somewhat tangential to the main point I was trying to make; paperclippers don’t have anything to do with value drift (they’re an example of a different failure mode in artificial ethics) and they’re unlikely to evolve from a changing value system.
Well, in this case it’s because the post I was responding to mentioned Clippy a couple of times, so I thought it’d be worthwhile to mention how the little bugger fits into the overall picture of value stability. It’s indeed somewhat tangential to the main point I was trying to make; paperclippers don’t have anything to do with value drift (they’re an example of a different failure mode in artificial ethics) and they’re unlikely to evolve from a changing value system.