Suppose you are an alien. You have been asked to audit the American labor-and-virtue machine of the early twenty-first century. You will notice at once that the regime does not import people because it lacks hands. It imports people because it lacks a story. Cheap service labor is only the pretext. The real product is…
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Islam is a Paperclip Maximizer
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…