Techbros love to talk about the problem of a super AI that doesn’t understand human values, is told to make more paperclips , and then eats the earth and all the universe because thats what it was told to do.
It is completely lost on them that capitalism, the invisible hand of the market, is 100% this, but just for the “line goes up”
Anyway, enjoy this fun clicker game while at work today
Edit: someone re-skin the game to make my point explicit. “Invade country steal slaves” “force villagers to grow spices” “cut down forest to sell as IKEA furniture”
Please and thank you
I don’t get it.
I think I won the game after like eight clicks or whatever. After a while it let me get autoclippers and now it clips paperclips faster than the demand for paperclips sells them off. I have satisfied the demand for paperclips and I don’t even have to do anything.
I ended up lowering prices to like 5c a clip because I was ending up with so much extra money. Like fukin 500 dollars an hour gross. So then I had to buy like a dozen autoclippers to keep up with THAT demand but things seem stable now. Except now I’m making even more money.
I think I’m learning that my apex capitalist form is a local manufacturer who ends up getting bought up by a trust
I’m learning that my apex capitalist form is a local manufacturer who ends up getting bought up by a trust
I assure you it isn’t, pump those numbers up man, tall the people man you gotta buy these paperclips, when you can’t manufacture what people want, manufacture people’s wants
Now that I’m a member of the idle rich, I’d like to engage in philosophical discussion.
Are idle games like this akin to blockchains in that they serve as nothing but wasted processing time? Struggle.
Actually since there are no human inputs the effective value of a metric ton of paperclips is now zero. Enjoy your new status as a pauper.
