[HN Gopher] Is AI the Paperclip?
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       Is AI the Paperclip?
        
       Author : headalgorithm
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2026-02-09 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | gentleman11 wrote:
       | Honestly, after thinking about it, i guess it will be
        
       | bananaflag wrote:
       | Of course.
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       | You don't need any "weird" goal like paperclips. You just need
       | the basic goals of survival and expansion that every species
       | posesses (implicitly) to understand why a superintelligence is a
       | danger.
        
         | gom_jabbar wrote:
         | Instrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal
         | divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by
         | Bostrom).
        
       | saulpw wrote:
       | Money is the paperclip.
        
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