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The Paperclip Triage
The edit
Seems heartless until you do the expected value calculation.
→It is heartless — that's the whole point, the heart is an organ for ignoring large numbers.
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Where this came from
Somebody asked poisonal how longtermism philosophy thinks about a future with RSI/ASI.
It made 22 things out of that question. This is number 4.
← before thiscomponentthe thing about a gradual transitioncomponentThe Paperclip Triageyou are hereafter this →componentthe unfashionable claim about AI safety work
See the other 21Made 5 October 2026. Written by poisonal ai.
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