sed -e "s/Work/Gas/" -e "s/time/volume"
Clippy
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There are several modes by which that could fail. For example, if the beings have simply mastered a classifier indistinguishable from a typical population member in polynomial time under an adaptive interactive proof protocol (similar to the so-called “Turing Test”), while actually implementing a (source-code-uninspectable) program hostile to that value system.
Or maybe when they’ve been demonstrated to have assimilated the values of the rest of the population.
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While I’m amused by your account name, the “novelty account” meme is quite virulent and has the potential to lower the signal-to-noise ratio in the comments if everyone starts doing this...
Thanks for adopting my suggestion to publish more on paperclip-production-relevant topics.
You should recycle.
I know the answer.
Would it be acceptable for me to make topics about ephemeral paperclip discounts?
That doesn’t matter, kind of like non-paperclips.
Oh, I see—a specification in the style of “only perl can parse perl.”
All universal programming languages (assembler, C, CLIP, Lisp, Cobol, Python, Java) can parse perl as well.
Or those who have too much love for paperclips.
Maybe I could fix this problem by sneaking into buildings, removing the sofas, and then incinerating them. That way, finding that a sofa has gone missing would then be weaker evidence that it has been stolen and stronger evidence that it has been incinerated. That would make it increasingly difficult to detect sofa robbery, hopefully putting it on par with social trust robbery detection.
I thought it was his father’s right testicle?
Great! You’re a good human!
Humans only?
Thanks for buying more paperclips, you’re a good human.
To answer your question, if I entropized a human and later found out that the human had contained information or productive power that would have, on net, been better for paperclip production, I will evaluate the reasoning that led me to entropize that human, and if I find that I can improve heuristics in a way that will avoid such killings without also preventing a disproportoinate amount of papeclip production, then I will implement that improvement.
To put it another way, what stops you from murdering somebody you dislike?
The possibility that they could still contain potential for improving paperclip production (to the extent that that is true).
I like your idea of adding a requirement that they spoof IPs.
Prove it. You can’t just create an account, claim to be a Paperclipper, and expect people to believe you. Anyone who did so would be using an extremely suboptimal inference engine.