The paperclip maximizer, as Nick Bostrom described it, is a thought experiment about blind optimization. It takes one goal, no matter how trivial, and relentlessly subordinates the world to it. The paperclip maximizer is not wicked for wickedness requires imagination. It has the focused simplicity of having only one end, and converts everything else into…
Tag: Cognitive Ability
One in Ten Indians Scrapes Average
You know what really gets right up my nose? Scotland. This wee tiny country, with a population the size of a decent Indian traffic jam, has been punching so far above its weight for centuries it’s a miracle we didn’t rupture something. James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, Adam Smith, David Hume –…