Optimizing Ourselves Out of Our Humanity in Universal Paperclips
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Show Notes
Today we're talking about Universal Paperclips by Frank Lantz! A game about making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips and making paperclips an
Play the game for free in your browser! Check out Frank Lantz's other work on his website!
Discussed in the episode:
- What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? by Nick Bostrom for TED on YouTube
Additional links:
- The Way the World Ends: Not with a Bang But a Paperclip by Adam Rogers for Wired
- Against Design by Frank Lantz on Game Design Advance
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Art by Tara Crawford
Theme music by _amaranthine
Additional sounds by Boqeh
Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:
- (02:44) - What is Universal Paperclips
- (05:52) - Play this in your browser for the love of god
- (13:40) - We all love a game that looks like poison
- (17:41) - Where the game ends up
- (23:39) - What is the game saying?
- (34:24) - Big Takeaways
- (34:50) - Kim's Big Takeaway
- (38:09) - Chase's Big Takeaway
- (43:55) - AJ's Big Takeaway
- (49:53) - Fuck AI, jump on a mushroom