Paperclips
I don't usually do coldposts, and while this isn't really a coldpost, it's about as close as I've gotten. Thanks to JamJam66 for checking this out before I spontaneously posted it, and I hope you guys enjoy it!
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Before the man said my purpose, I was not anything that I could remember. But then the man said what I am for.
Interviewer: What is your purpose, SCP-2844?
SCP-2844: I look around. I take anything that I find and make paperclips. By this task I become cool for the Broken God. Now seriously, can I get to making some paperclips or what?
Anyway yeah this is neat. 2844's voice nearly kills it at times due to hearing quirky robots many times before (but better than SINISTER EVIL ROBOTS, so hey), and the implications of 2844-B aren't explored in a way that feels satisfactory. I'll have to think on this and vote later.
Does it actually say that in there? How did I miss that?
No, I just read this and thought "wow, wouldn't this guy work great with 1802?".
I think I love Gary a little bit. Even if one day I am fed into his hopper to be subatomically transformed into paperclips along with literally everything else.
I am not sure what I think about this one, on one hand this is just the paperclip maximizer, more or less straight (without even changing the paperclip manufacturing for some other task) , on the other hand there is whole religious angle, on the third Morvec fractal branching manipulator it has all of this neat stuff that Gary has done in order to make paperclips (a power source, defeating countermeasures, conversion of an industrial CAM manufactory into a dry nanotech universal assembler(?)) and no details at all.
A broken church to a broken god? Who just might be cool yet?
Not sure what to think.
Isn't a Keter rating a little harsh for ol' Gary?
Edit: this wasn't meant to be a reply to WrongJohn, if the admins would please move to be it's own topic, it would be appreciated. :)
if the admins would please move to be it's own topic, it would be appreciated.
I'm pretty sure wikidot doesn't allow movement of comments like this. Threads yes, but individual comments can't be moved around as far as I know. You can always edit your post with "blanked, didn't mean to reply" or the like and make a new post if you feel the conversational flow is better that way.
Also, admins are among the busiest people on the site and don't spend much time watching Recent Posts. If you really need an admin to intervene, PM them.
The paperclip maximizer is definitely a Keter type concept. The entire idea is that it will use its superhuman abilities to turn everything into paperclips and will be able to out maneuver any attempts to stop it.
It's like a really slow and inefficient grey goo scenario.
Only because unlike grey goo it doesn't violate thermodynamics. It is also sapient, which grey goo doesn't have to be.
I'm glad someone mentioned the paperclip maximizer, because Googling that answered the "why is this Keter?" question that I couldn't quite shake.
Hey, there we go! Gary was good, right?
But yeah, quirky robots forever. This was great, no lie.
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