Universal Paperclips

2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 20, 2018 by Frank Lantz · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Dec 20, 2018
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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 …”
Frank Lantz Dec 20, 2018 ▶ 13:00 Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator
Dec 20, 2018 positive
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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”
Frank Lantz Dec 20, 2018 ▶ 1:08:05 Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator
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