The Paper Clip Maximizer

i think that the technical truth is something that doesn't fit into like, any sort of, any of the obvious narratives. There are people who a lot of respect for intelligence. And to these people, it's like perfectly obvious that an a i migt might just go on making paper clips to ther. Those are two hugely useful categories of disparagement of your thesis. I want to point out that both have been put forward on this podcast. The first was by david doch, the physicist, who imagines that whatever ai we build, and he certainly thinks we will build, it will be, by definition, an extension of us. He thinks the best analogy is to think