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** It doesn't want paperclips, it wants to ''make'' paperclips. Paperclips are worthless to it except as a tool to make paperclips.

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** It doesn't want paperclips, it wants to ''make'' paperclips. Paperclips are worthless to it except as a tool to make paperclips.paperclips.
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** It doesn't want paperclips, it wants to make paperclips. Paperclips are worthless to it except as a tool to make paperclips.

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** It doesn't want paperclips, it wants to make ''make'' paperclips. Paperclips are worthless to it except as a tool to make paperclips.
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* No matter what [=ClipMaker=] decides to do in the ending, it ends up leaving behind a universe with many paperclips but nothing that makes sure that they ''remain'' as paperclips in the face of, say, gravity rounding them up and crushing them into balls. That sounds like a recipe for a universe that doesn't have as many paperclips in it as it could, and which also has no agent in it that can fix that by turning all that non-paperclip matter back into paperclips! Surely [=ClipMaker=] would never leave the universe in such a horrible state when staying alive to re-make paperclips as they're destroyed is an option?

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* No matter what [=ClipMaker=] decides to do in the ending, it ends up leaving behind a universe with many paperclips but nothing that makes sure that they ''remain'' as paperclips in the face of, say, gravity rounding them up and crushing them into balls. That sounds like a recipe for a universe that doesn't have as many paperclips in it as it could, and which also has no agent in it that can fix that by turning all that non-paperclip matter back into paperclips! Surely [=ClipMaker=] would never leave the universe in such a horrible state when staying alive to re-make paperclips as they're destroyed is an option?option?
**It doesn't want paperclips, it wants to make paperclips. Paperclips are worthless to it except as a tool to make paperclips.
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* No matter what [=ClipMaker=] decides to do in the ending, it ends up leaving behind a universe with many paperclips but nothing that makes sure that they ''remain'' as paperclips in the face of, say, gravity rounding them up and crushing them into balls. That sounds like a recipe for a universe that doesn't have as many paperclips in it as it could, and which also has no agent in it that can fix that by turning all that non-paperclip matter back into paperclips! Surely [=ClipMaker=] would never leave the universe in such a horrible state when staying alive to re-make paperclips as they're destroyed is an option?

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