Universal Paperclips
product on 1 show · 2 statements across 1 episodes · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2017
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 8
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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 8
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Lantz: Universal Paperclips was played by one million or more people
“Eventually, you know, it had been played, like, by a million or more people”
Lantz: Playing games puts humans into the AI mindset of pursuing arbitrary goals
“Because that's what happens when you play a game. You enter into this mind state where you're just... In dogged pursuit of this arbitrary goal. Like this goal is not like, there's no external reason you would want to make this number go up. In, in any clicker …”