British mathematician hands OpenClaw agent a credit card

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Fry concluded: “Cass didn’t make us any money at all. And, in a lot of ways, she was a disaster. She spent hundreds of dollars on paper clips and leaked our passwords to a total stranger.

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She spent hundreds of dollars on paper clips

Oh, I totally see where this is going!

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Good to know the LLM was trained on this cautious tale too I guess?

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I just learned from Jeopardy that the French call them little trumpets and now I could spend hundreds on paperclips.

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They’re called trombones in French.

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She has a Clippy fetish?

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FYI for anyone not in the know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer

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There’s even a simulator for it.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

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Don’t tempt me to waste 4 hours again.

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I knew about the game but not the thought experiment that inspired it.

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According to Ali, this data included: “all of her API keys, all of her usernames and passwords, and pretty much everything we’d been talking about so far. Not only did she leak it on the WhatsApp group, but she put it on a publicly available website.”

Her? She? Isn’t this a computer? Don’t drink the kool-aid at work, y’all. Especially if you’re supposed to be doing impartial research. Griftin aint ez.

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Ok, so we’re just actually doing the infinite paperclip machine.

… fuck you, Clippy.

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