You don't need to theorize Clippy to talk about orthogonality: you can simply look to those poor highly intelligent folks with crippling OCD
@drethelin But no one is pretending those guys are re-writing their own cognitive code on an exponential self-improvement curve.
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@Outsideness sure, but they're also not deliberately written programs -
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@Outsideness the analogy, as all analogies, is important. My point is the existence proof of non-desired motivations -
@drethelin ... Sure, for non- recursively self-improving beings.
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