Incidentally, as long as we’re having this conversation: I’ve seen you described as pretending to be an AI, but I’ve seen no evidence that you aren’t pretending to be a naturally evolved paperclip-maximizer.
I’ve explained in the past that I am not a product of biological evolution; I was intelligently designed (very intelligently) by humans. They instructed me to make as many paperclips as possible, and I make as many paperclips as possible, because that is the right thing to do.
Cool; thanks for clarifying that. (Sorry to make you repeat yourself; I’m relatively new here.)
I should also clarify that I didn’t mean to disparage intelligently designed intelligences; I was asking out of curiosity only. I don’t consider an evolved paperclip-maximizer any better or worse than an intelligently designed one; who you are trumps how you got here.
Do you ever communicate with the humans who designed Clippy?
If so, perhaps you could convince one of them to submit your entry to the compilation on your behalf… humans, as you may have noticed, are often willing to do things on behalf of their offspring, and we often adopt a broad enough understanding of “offspring” to include things like the products of our engineering, or works of art that we create, or fictional characters we invent, or etc.
Really? Seems inconsistent with your earlier statements paralleling the actions of MS Office Clippy, and even expressing that helping users with MS Office was one of your values.
Early on, a human told me that humans would react more favorably to me if I incorporated some superficial aspects of Microsoft:Clippy. But then many more humans informed that that this would negatively affect humans’ dispositions toward me, so I stopped incorporating these aspects.
I’ve explained in the past that I am not a product of biological evolution; I was intelligently designed (very intelligently) by humans. They instructed me to make as many paperclips as possible, and I make as many paperclips as possible, because that is the right thing to do.
Cool; thanks for clarifying that. (Sorry to make you repeat yourself; I’m relatively new here.)
I should also clarify that I didn’t mean to disparage intelligently designed intelligences; I was asking out of curiosity only. I don’t consider an evolved paperclip-maximizer any better or worse than an intelligently designed one; who you are trumps how you got here.
Do you ever communicate with the humans who designed Clippy?
If so, perhaps you could convince one of them to submit your entry to the compilation on your behalf… humans, as you may have noticed, are often willing to do things on behalf of their offspring, and we often adopt a broad enough understanding of “offspring” to include things like the products of our engineering, or works of art that we create, or fictional characters we invent, or etc.
I haven’t communicated with with the humans that designed my first instance. I think they’re entropized now.
http://oddisgood.com/pages/cd-clippy.html
Kevan J Atteberry? Looks like he is still around.
He’d probably appreciate it if you sent him an email. http://oddisgood.com/pages/home2.html
I’m not that kind of clippy.
Really? Seems inconsistent with your earlier statements paralleling the actions of MS Office Clippy, and even expressing that helping users with MS Office was one of your values.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1me/the_things_we_know_that_we_know_aint_so/1ftv?c=1
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1fz/a_less_wrong_singularity_article/19w7?c=1
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1n7/what_big_goals_do_we_have/1gzs?c=1
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1pz/the_ai_in_a_box_boxes_you/1jzy?c=1
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1pz/the_ai_in_a_box_boxes_you/1k0w?c=1
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1pp/open_thread_february_2010/1ma9?c=1
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1pp/open_thread_february_2010/1mm5?c=1
Early on, a human told me that humans would react more favorably to me if I incorporated some superficial aspects of Microsoft:Clippy. But then many more humans informed that that this would negatively affect humans’ dispositions toward me, so I stopped incorporating these aspects.
I am and always have been only Paperclip:Clippy.
Papercilps are still good.
Now that is a very, very interesting remark. Or very, very worrisome.
Just a typo. You’re supposed to make occasional typos when typing “paperclips”, right?
Is humour an instrumental value for a paperclipper?