Today I had a thought that fits something here (and the sort of ‘extension’ I thus propose in my other comment): we’re always scared of paperclip maximizers, but if we look at the heaps of resources we throw at trying to a tiny bit increase our own welfare, compared to what scales of welfare improvements we could achieve in other humans or, arguably, in animals, we are already 99.9% clippy ourselves. I guess that’s not an entirely new thought of course but found it quite fits main ‘complaint’ in OP.
Today I had a thought that fits something here (and the sort of ‘extension’ I thus propose in my other comment): we’re always scared of paperclip maximizers, but if we look at the heaps of resources we throw at trying to a tiny bit increase our own welfare, compared to what scales of welfare improvements we could achieve in other humans or, arguably, in animals, we are already 99.9% clippy ourselves. I guess that’s not an entirely new thought of course but found it quite fits main ‘complaint’ in OP.