[smaddox]

Paperclips?

[newswasboring]

An average paper clip is 204.8mm^3. 10^23 of those would be 2.048x10^19 L in volume[1]. That would be only two orders of magnitude less than total volume of oceans 1.33x10^21 L [2]. So I think not.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=volume+of+a+paperclip+t...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=total+volume+of+oceans

[mecsred]

10^23? Maybe if we push all the way to AGI.

[FoeNyx]

Is that a reference to the "Universal Paperclips" game?

[smaddox]

Basically, yes. Or at least it's related. The game is based on (arguably, a misinterpretation of) the writings of Elizer Yudkowski.