Clippy isn’t a superintelligence though, he’s a human pretending to be a not-smarter-than-human AI with a paperclip maximizing utility function.
FTFY. ;-)
Actually, if we’re going to be particular about it, the AI that human is pretending to be does not have a paperclip-maximizing utility function. It’s more like a person with a far-brain ideal of having lots of paperclips exist, who somehow never gets around to actually making any because they’re so busy telling everyone how good paperclips are and why they should support the cause of paper-clip making. Ugh.
(I guess I see enough of that sort of akrasia around real people and real problems, that I find it a stale and distasteful joke when presented in imitation paperclip form, especially since ISTM it’s also a piss-poor example of what a paperclip maximizer would actually be like.)
I’m not sure whether to evaluate this as a mean-spirited lack of a sense of humor, or as a profound observation. Upvoted for making me notice that I am confused.
FTFY. ;-)
Actually, if we’re going to be particular about it, the AI that human is pretending to be does not have a paperclip-maximizing utility function. It’s more like a person with a far-brain ideal of having lots of paperclips exist, who somehow never gets around to actually making any because they’re so busy telling everyone how good paperclips are and why they should support the cause of paper-clip making. Ugh.
(I guess I see enough of that sort of akrasia around real people and real problems, that I find it a stale and distasteful joke when presented in imitation paperclip form, especially since ISTM it’s also a piss-poor example of what a paperclip maximizer would actually be like.)
I’m not sure whether to evaluate this as a mean-spirited lack of a sense of humor, or as a profound observation. Upvoted for making me notice that I am confused.