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> so obviously stupid.

It's not stupid though, because there are no objective universal values that you can intelligently deduce. It's stupid to you and me because we don't want to bury the world in paperclips, we want to fill the world with art and laughter and adventure and kindness, and burying the world in paperclips is a stupid way to fail to achieve that. But if someone did want the paperclips then there's no argument you could use to change their mind, except to explain how it might deprive them of something else they want even more.




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