A modern take on the “paperclip computer”

[sohkamyung]

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/08/a-modern-take-on-the-paperclip-computer/

[compiler-guy]

Very cool project. If you think this project is interesting, it is worth checking out Ben Eater's eight-bit computer project.

https://eater.net/8bit

[microtherion]

At first glance, I thought they were talking about a home built paperclip maximizer.

[knodi123 → microtherion]

it would be just my luck to be born in time to witness the technological singularity, but it's all just infinite paperclips.

[mirimir → knodi123]

One could argue, from an ecological perspective, that human society has fundamentally become a paperclip optimizer.