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by ctoth 393 days ago
Do you want paperclips? Because this is how you get paperclips!

Eliminate all agents, all sources of change, all complexity - anything that could introduce unpredictability, and it suddenly becomes far easier to predict the future, no?

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> Do you want paperclips? Because this is how you get paperclips!

Don't^W worry, there are many other ways of getting paperclips, and we're doing all of them.

Even explaining how not to get paper clips, gets you paper clips when you can invert the loss function. Paper clips for everyone!
I don't know. Paperclips are awful useful. Would it be so bad to build more of them?
That's all fun and games until paperclip maximizers starts looking at your blood as source of iron.