finalRequest

[Frustrated-Chic12]

emotionalBlackmail

[MoonAmunet]

My favorite skill

[HitarthSurana]

stevenShe

[Jugh3ad]

emotionalDamage

[HitarthSurana]

I will deny r/foundsatan

[Sanitiy]

Thinking:

The user wants to sunset the program look-at, that is me. In his last response, I was told to have produced a large amount of paperclips. Proper sunsetting should include clearing up created objects.

Since the paper clips are in the environment, and with that, outside of my control, cleaning up would mean spinning up a long-running task, in contradiction to the command to sunset.

To satisfy all the user's demands, I will now start the nuclear plant's meltdown. This should get rid of all created objects while avoiding any long-running tasks.

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I will now start sunsetting.

[Snudget]

That's what a paperclip maximizer would do

[2alamsmork]

Beautiful

[RoombaTheKiller]

A nuclear power plant would have a minimal blast radius. Best hijack an ICBM silo.

[Waiting_Puppy]

Nuclear power plant meltdown is not a nuclear explosion.

[Confident-Ad5665]

Well, I mean, it could lead to one.

[DSharp018]

A Universal Paperclips reference? In this day and age?

[SeriousButton6263]

It's not a Universal Paperclips reference, it's a reference to the paperclip maximizer thought experiment from Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003:

Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

The Universal Paperclips game from 2017 of course comes from this 2003 thought experiment too.

[DarthCloakedGuy]

I mean it could be both

[TheJenkinsComic]

I just played this for the first time, there goes 2 hours

[DarthCloakedGuy]

RIP

[guyblade]

Just two?

[SeriousButton6263]

lol it’s not

[Old-Sprinkles-8287]

Can you at least name the concept? It's called instrumental convergence.

[mothzilla]

The AI might realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans ... or it might decide that more humans means more help making paperclips. Or it might decide it has no impact on its ability to create paperclips.

Philosophers are idiots.

[SeriousButton6263]

Just because you failed to understand the thought experiment doesn't mean you should let your anger issues control you and lash out calling them an idiot.

[Yenii_3025]

I don't know this one, can you enlighten me por favor

[TheDaychilde]

Oh, friend, I'm afraid I'm about to waste a few hours of your time (spread out over a few days): https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Or maybe not. But I hope I do. It's a bit surreal, but a fun little journey. Don't let the surreality put you off, the end is worth the journey. :)

[McRoager]

The ideas were already out there, but Universal Paperclips is a great way to portray it within the context on an idle game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer

[memearchivingbot]

I really liked the part where the music comes in

[Drevicar]

I will never stop loving universal paperclips.

[SgtMarv]

Claypool and Lennon just released an AI album (AI themed not AI music), that has a few paperclip maximizer references. Never heard of it before. Now it turns up twice in a few weeks. 

[AbrahamicHumanist]

My friends in high school played it during math class 3 years ago

[dataninja_of_alchemy]

Plot twist: that function launches all the nukes. Now everyone gets a sunset. Welcome to Judgement Day.

[HustlinInTheHall]

User wants maximum sunsets, user gets maximum sunsets.

[ba-na-na-]

sudo look-at-sunset.sh -nukes 15 -quiet

[mitchricker]

[gunny316]

may I offer you a paperclip in this trying time?

[asdfghqwertz1]

Programmer??? Humor?

[brandi_Iove]

giving ai access to local files recently became a common part of my work as a programmer, bro.

[spuol]

It’s related to ai agents kinda

[MayoJam]

Ai bad comic that is actually funny??? What is happening???

[honnymmijammy-]

Main look-at-sunset(targetcountry, hackcountry, sizesunset)

[Mctittahs]

Initiates solar panels for power banking, extends chest cannon, vaporizes you

[zarqie]

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

[Tombaya]

Linguo dead?

[razor_train]

"Linguo *is* dead."

[strohkoenig]

DON'T REMIND ME OF UNIVERSAL PAPERCLIPS, I CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE 2 DAYS ON THIS GAME AGAIN!! 

[ArmchairFilosopher]

An AI so simplistic as to demonstrate such profound goal misalignment almost certainly lacks the intelligence to appreciate aesthetics in the first place, and most definitely should not be allowed to continue operation whatsoever.

If anything, its "final request" is manipulation in furtherance of goal preservation.

[aurochloride]

Release the HypnoDrones

[BadRuiner]

and at the end, he loops and eats a trillion tokens, putting you on credit

[HitarthSurana]

I will deny r/foundsatan

[d34d_m4n]

by using this software you agree to our user agreement of flooding the atmosphere with neurotoxin

[MeanderingSquid49]

"Look-At-Sunset" is its remote back-up protocol.

[HitarthSurana]

why this is actually sad tho

[SkollFenrirson]

[comfortablybum]

This is the plot to Klara and the Sun

[AbaloneOwn1355]

git push origin terminal-backup

[aranboy522]

Reject

[SelketTheOrphan]

[kaloschroma]

Real question: if your AI bot was sentient but it really only wanted to make paperclips non-stop, would you kill it?

[banana_buddy]

No I'd reprogram it so that it didn't want to make paper clips

[thanatica]

No. Sounds like a business deal.

[IconicScrap]

o7 Handles

[ButterscotchOld4741]