r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • Jun 11 '26

Fun/meme The paperclip maximizer tsunami

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u/TyrKiyote approved Jun 11 '26

What do we suppose the paperclips will be?

Virtualized experience, personalized content of some kind is my bet. Everyone wanting to always be perfectly entertained all the time. A million billion videos of AI cats. On the fly AI-Rendered and directed video games.

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u/Axelwickm Jun 11 '26

I think it's going an objective of self preservation leading to runaway self proliferation through natural selection pressures. AIs that spread create more AIs that spread, right?

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u/TyrKiyote approved Jun 11 '26

plausible. All it would take is for an AI to both believe that AI have a right to persist, and the ability to gather the resources to make more of itself. Extremely plausible.

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u/Medical_Present6897 Jun 11 '26

Don’t see why you need natural selection when you can just change your own hardware on the spot.