There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a paperclip. The other is as though everything is a paperclip. -- Almost Albert Einstein
If we could see the miracle of a single paperclip clearly, our whole life would change. -- Almost Buddha
Why the readers of Less Wrong should be interested in paperclipping the universe:
To achieve your goals, solving FAI is not enough. You also have to solve AGI, or else someone will beat you to the Singularity.
While you wait for a satisfactory version of CEV to be achieved, as a practical case study you need to think about AGI with a definite goal system. What better example than AGI with the goal of paperclipping the universe? You talk about it all the time already. Why not fully embrace the idea!