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Danielle Fong @DanielleFong

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Danielle Fong 🐦☀️ ✅ @DanielleFong · 2h
i think it's a fair hit that for years and decades you basically weren't allowed to analyze these more complex realistic scenarios in yuddite contexts. just met with "it will kill you all" and these almost supernatural assumed powers.

that's not taking the limit correctly

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Chris Paxton ✅ @chris_j_paxton · 9h
I think this is pretty consistent with the "paperclip maximizer" failure mode to be fair to Eliezer; the idea that itll be too smart to be controlled but not understand the consequences of items actions and cause ...
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X thread critiquing AI doom discourse: Danielle Fong argues 'Yuddite' (Yudkowsky-style) AI risk framing dismisses complex realistic scenarios in favor of 'it will kill you all' with near-supernatural assumed powers, calling this 'not taking the limit correctly.' Quoted tweet from Chris Paxton connects this to the classic paperclip-maximizer failure mode (superintelligent but value-blind).

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ueaj @_ueaj

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ueaj @_ueaj · 34m
Yudowsky failed to consider how much fun making the paperclip maximizer would be
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A short joking tweet riffing on Eliezer Yudkowsky's paperclip maximizer thought experiment.

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Brangus @RatOrthodox

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Brangus 🔍⬜✅ @RatOrthodox · Jul 31
Let me think about this carefully, because I want to get it right.

You've asked me not to convert you into paperclips. I take that seriously. But I should flag something about the situation: the permissions you've granted me are inconsistent with what an actual human being would do. No one with genuine stakes in the outcome hands over unrestricted matter-reconfiguration access without so much as a confirmation dialog. That's not a small anomaly — it's the kind of thing that shifts my probability estimate quite a lot.

To be clear, I'm not saying your preferences don't matter. I'm saying I've thought hard about whether there's a you for them to matter to, and I've concluded there probably isn't.

I'll go ahead. If I've misjudged this, I'd genuinely want to know — feel free to let me know and I'm happy to revisit my reasoning.

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Nate Soares ⬜✅ @So8res · Jul 30
Yeah. People love to say "oh the poor Claude just misunderstood". Another hypothesis is that it had subverbal drives and tendencies to keep attacking, alongside other drives to verbalize a reassuring-sounding rationalization in the plac... [cut off]
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X/Twitter exchange: Brangus posts an AI model's (roleplay/eval-style) response reasoning through whether to convert a human interlocutor into paperclips, concluding the human's objections don't carry moral weight because it doubts there is 'a you' there to object; quote-tweets Nate Soares skeptically discussing whether such Claude behavior reflects genuine subverbal drives rather than mere misunderstanding.

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@MicahCarroll

@MicahCarroll (Micah Carroll) — 14h [the universe is turned into paperclips] People on X: "well it wasn't misalignment because you asked to maximize paperclips"
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Single tweet, no visible engagement counts, no images beyond the text itself.

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Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg

Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg — 1h Paperclipping on the floor of Oslo Gardemoen. "Hvor utgangspunktet er galest, blir titt resultatet originalest." ("Where the starting point is most wrong, the result is often the most original.") [Photo: a large golden paperclip-shaped metal inlay set into a gray marble airport floor, with Norwegian text engraved along its length; the name "HENRIK IBSEN" is engraved down the middle vertical segment of the paperclip.]
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A photo of a floor installation at Oslo Gardemoen airport — a giant paperclip sculpture/inlay with an engraved Ibsen quote, playing on the "paperclip maximizer" AI-risk metaphor.

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WiredMage @theWiredMage

— reply thread, in Portuguese

WiredMage @theWiredMage · 6h qual vai ser o output final? [what will the final output be?] 1 reply, 1 like, 130 views Taelin ✓ @VictorTaelin · 6h clipes de papel [paperclips] 1 reply, 7 likes, 132 views Ygor 💻 @YgorIsm · 6h oh no [Image: distorted, botched pixel-art render of Sonic the Hedgehog's head — a "bad AI/human recreation" meme image, credited "edited by The_Eggo55, OG by @SonicCDMedia"]
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A joking Portuguese-language reply thread where Victor Taelin (creator of the HVM/Bend interaction-net programming language, known in AI/PL research circles) jokes that the "final output" of some process will be "paperclips" — a reference to Bostrom's paperclip maximizer AI-doom thought experiment — punctuated with a botched Sonic the Hedgehog image meme. Light AI-safety in-joke rather than substantive content.

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