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Patented: History of Inventions

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence

The paper clip maximizer is a thought experiment about artificial intelligence designed with the sole purpose of making as many paper clips as possible. It could hypothetically destroy the world or even the entire universe by converting all resources into paper clips due to instrumental convergence. There is an inherent fear of AI, I think. And I wonder how much of the AI fear is our own fear of tech or we should be really scared of where all this is going.

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