Are you talking about agony as an error signal, or are you talking about agony as a quale? I begin to suspect that you may mean the second. If so, then the paperclipper can easily be indifferent to agony; but it probably can’t understand how humans can be indifferent to a lack of paperclips.
A paperclip maximiser would (in the overwhelming majority of cases) have no such problem understanding the indifference of paperclips. A tendency to anthropomorphise is a quirk of human nature. Assuming that paperclip maximisers have an analogous temptation (to clipropomorphise) is itself just anthropomorphising.
A paperclip maximiser would (in the overwhelming majority of cases) have no such problem understanding the indifference of paperclips. A tendency to anthropomorphise is a quirk of human nature. Assuming that paperclip maximisers have an analogous temptation (to clipropomorphise) is itself just anthropomorphising.
I take your point. Though Clippy may clipropomorphise, there is no reason to assume that it will.
...is there any way to retract just a part of a previous post?
There is an edit button. But I wouldn’t say your comment is significantly weakened by this tangential technical detail (I upvoted it as is).
Yes, but is there any way to leave the text there, but stricken through?
People have managed it with unicode characters. I think there is even a tool for it on the web somewhere.
Got it, thanks.