I went back and tried playing it again, and I’m no longer confident in Universal Paperclips. It’s way too heavy on the explore aspect of the explore-exploit tradeoff; you’re constantly bombarded with new things to try and have no way of knowing how much they’re helping you (maximizing things other than paperclips is usually the winning strategy). It probably doesn’t outperform speedrunning most things e.g. various parts of TOTK.
I went back and tried playing it again, and I’m no longer confident in Universal Paperclips. It’s way too heavy on the explore aspect of the explore-exploit tradeoff; you’re constantly bombarded with new things to try and have no way of knowing how much they’re helping you (maximizing things other than paperclips is usually the winning strategy). It probably doesn’t outperform speedrunning most things e.g. various parts of TOTK.