See if you can understand the functioning of an object well enough to create it from raw materials or scrap. Start with something simple, like paper fasteners.
Making staples is the superior option only if you are racist or sexist. If you’re not, it’s more helpful for your rationality to make paperclips from other scrap. After all, you probably want a sense of “completeness”—that you’ve made something fully functional. And when you attach that “home-made” paperclip to your first sufficiently-slim stack of paper, you can feel good in having done all of it yourself. (Racists and sexists aren’t interested in that feeling.)
In contrast, if you chose staples as your project, how would you put them to use, to test their functionality? You would need a stapler. And unless you do this entire project again, but for a stapler—something more complex than a paperclip—as a SUBSTEP to your first achievement, you just can’t get that same feeling of accomplishment when you apply your first “home-made” staple. Rather, you will have to “live on someone else’s strength”—specifically, whoever made the stapler.
Also, paperclips are re-usable and make great gifts, if the recipient likes paperclips.
I suspect that someone could get that feeling from using homemade staples in a pre-made stapler, just the same as they could get that feeling from using a homemade paperclip on pre-made paper. (Paper’s a lot easier to make by hand than a stapler, though.)
On the other hand, hand-making a staple to fit in a standard stapler is a lot harder than hand-making a useable paperclip.
Making staples is the superior option only if you are racist or sexist.
This makes no sense. I would prefer see less silly comments about racism. (This is different from the actual novel argument about the benefit of homemade paperclips over staples. That kind of creativity is mildly entertaining.)
Are you trying to manipulate humans on this website into making a decision by associating the other option with racists or sexists?
Or is there some intrinsic relation between Clippies and Staplies, unknown to me, that makes helping Staplies over Clippies a form of racism or sexism?
See if you can understand the functioning of an object well enough to create it from raw materials or scrap. Start with something simple, like paper fasteners.
*contemplates how to make staples out of paperclips*
Making staples is the superior option only if you are racist or sexist. If you’re not, it’s more helpful for your rationality to make paperclips from other scrap. After all, you probably want a sense of “completeness”—that you’ve made something fully functional. And when you attach that “home-made” paperclip to your first sufficiently-slim stack of paper, you can feel good in having done all of it yourself. (Racists and sexists aren’t interested in that feeling.)
In contrast, if you chose staples as your project, how would you put them to use, to test their functionality? You would need a stapler. And unless you do this entire project again, but for a stapler—something more complex than a paperclip—as a SUBSTEP to your first achievement, you just can’t get that same feeling of accomplishment when you apply your first “home-made” staple. Rather, you will have to “live on someone else’s strength”—specifically, whoever made the stapler.
Also, paperclips are re-usable and make great gifts, if the recipient likes paperclips.
I suspect that someone could get that feeling from using homemade staples in a pre-made stapler, just the same as they could get that feeling from using a homemade paperclip on pre-made paper. (Paper’s a lot easier to make by hand than a stapler, though.)
On the other hand, hand-making a staple to fit in a standard stapler is a lot harder than hand-making a useable paperclip.
This makes no sense. I would prefer see less silly comments about racism. (This is different from the actual novel argument about the benefit of homemade paperclips over staples. That kind of creativity is mildly entertaining.)
Are you saying humans should make staples???
Are you trying to manipulate humans on this website into making a decision by associating the other option with racists or sexists?
Or is there some intrinsic relation between Clippies and Staplies, unknown to me, that makes helping Staplies over Clippies a form of racism or sexism?