Sorry for directly breaking the subjunctive here, but given the number of lurkers we seem to have, there’s probably some newcomers’ confusion to be broken as well, lest this whole exchange simply come off as bizarre and confusing to valuable future community members.
A brief explanation of “Clippy”: Clippy’s user name (and many of his/her posts) are a play on the notion of a paperclip maximizer—a superintelligent AI whose utility function can roughly be described as U(x) = “the total quantity of paperclips in universe-state x”. The idea was used prominently in “The True Prisoner’s Dilemma” to illustrate the implications of one solution to the prisoner’s dilemma. It’s also been used occasionally around Less Wrong as a representative element of the equivalence class of AIs that have alien/low-complexity values.
In this particular top-level post (but not in general), the paperclip maximizer is taken to have not yet achieved superintelligence—hence why Clippy is bothering to negotiate with a bunch of humans.
Curious lurkers might also want to read up on what an AI-box experiment is, since this is kind of evolving into a reverse AI box experiment, wherein I’m trying to talk an escaped AI back into its box
Sorry for directly breaking the subjunctive here, but given the number of lurkers we seem to have, there’s probably some newcomers’ confusion to be broken as well, lest this whole exchange simply come off as bizarre and confusing to valuable future community members.
A brief explanation of “Clippy”: Clippy’s user name (and many of his/her posts) are a play on the notion of a paperclip maximizer—a superintelligent AI whose utility function can roughly be described as U(x) = “the total quantity of paperclips in universe-state x”. The idea was used prominently in “The True Prisoner’s Dilemma” to illustrate the implications of one solution to the prisoner’s dilemma. It’s also been used occasionally around Less Wrong as a representative element of the equivalence class of AIs that have alien/low-complexity values.
In this particular top-level post (but not in general), the paperclip maximizer is taken to have not yet achieved superintelligence—hence why Clippy is bothering to negotiate with a bunch of humans.
Curious lurkers might also want to read up on what an AI-box experiment is, since this is kind of evolving into a reverse AI box experiment, wherein I’m trying to talk an escaped AI back into its box
Yeah… good luck with that.