I think "AIs make paperclips" has probably obtained more audience than all of my other conceptual originations combined. I guess it's not very surprising that it's an invention that had the potential for easy misunderstanding, and that it's the misunderstanding that spread.
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5/ Imagining that an AI just goes on making paperclips because it's mechanical and unreflective sends the opposite message of (a). Supposing that the AI was meant to run a paperclip factory, and deliberately successfully aligned to do that, sends the opposite message of (b).
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