"Ahkchually the paperclip maximizer isn't maximizing [human] utility, just a dumb metric" isn't a particularly useful observation to make in the context of the world being gradually consumed by an army of nanobots.
I'm thinking of an earlier time when computers ran on "facts and logic" and you could probably stop the machine by giving it a logical conundrum. Vibes-based systems are a lot more resistant to this, but can still be distracted.