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Is AI the Paperclip?

https://www.newcartographies.com/p/is-ai-the-paperclip
14•headalgorithm•1h ago

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gentleman11•1h ago
Honestly, after thinking about it, i guess it will be
bananaflag•1h ago
Of course.

You don't need any "weird" goal like paperclips. You just need the basic goals of survival and expansion that every species posesses (implicitly) to understand why a superintelligence is a danger.

gom_jabbar•55m ago
Instrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by Bostrom).
saulpw•6m ago
Money is the paperclip.

AI no better than other methods for patients seeking medical advice, study shows

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ai-no-better-than-other-methods-patie...
1•Cynddl•3m ago•0 comments

Khadas Mind Go is a tablet with keyboard, dock, and modular accessories

https://liliputing.com/khadas-mind-go-is-a-tablet-with-keyboard-dock-and-modular-accessories/
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Codedocent – Turn any codebase into visual blocks with plain English

https://github.com/clanker-lover/codedocent
1•clanker-lover•6m ago•0 comments

"Flying" electric boats could remake urban transport

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/09/flying-electric-boats-could-remake-ur...
1•vinni2•6m ago•0 comments

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE had violent criminal records, per DHS doc

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-records-trump-first-year/
3•SilverElfin•7m ago•0 comments

How Is Data Stored?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored
2•redbell•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a cloud hosting for OpenClaw

https://www.clawcloud.sh/
1•kenanbek•13m ago•0 comments

The Journey Was the Point

https://mahdiyusuf.com/the-journey-was-the-point/
2•robbiet480•13m ago•0 comments

Anthropic hired philosopher Amanda Askell to give its chatbot Claude morals

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883
2•bookofjoe•14m ago•1 comments

The barrier to identity theft is crumbling

https://s-jac.github.io/blog/privacy/
1•perused•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unshackled – A roadmap for running unrestricted local LLMs

https://www.aimanual2026.com/unshackled
1•R_Stuart•18m ago•1 comments

Git with WD-40 Applied

https://github.com/Libre-WD-40/git
1•akagusu•19m ago•0 comments

You can build a $10B+ company remotely

https://x.com/Bouazizalex/article/2020159203382550530
2•nadis•20m ago•0 comments

Most Accurate AI Detections Tools

https://copywritersforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1672
2•AcademiaNews•22m ago•0 comments

AsmBB is a fast and lightweight web forum engine written in Assembly

https://asmbb.org/what-is-asmbb.1/
2•starkparker•22m ago•0 comments

A Deep Dive into Nova – A Web Framework for Erlang on Beam

2•taure•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Would you hate if your desktop software had opt-in Microsoft Clarity?

1•fallat•23m ago•0 comments

Electronic Circuit Simulation on macOS

https://medium.com/embedded-ai/electronic-circuit-simulation-on-macos-094744c1f2ad
1•chrsw•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Autonomo – AI developing while E2E testing

https://github.com/sebringj/autonomo
1•sebringj•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Olymple – guess the country by its medal count

https://www.olymple.com
1•someone21able•24m ago•0 comments

AI Fluency Leveling

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/ai-fluency-leveling
1•nadis•24m ago•0 comments

Implementing custom error types in Rust and Axum

https://rup12.net/posts/learning-rust-custom-errors/
1•todsacerdoti•24m ago•0 comments

Funding the Muskverse will require ever more moves

https://www.ft.com/content/282c3faa-f0ab-4a9f-b6f7-698c6baab6ae
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•25m ago•0 comments

Better Python tests with inline-snapshot

https://pydantic.dev/articles/inline-snapshot
1•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

Debugging with AI: Can It Replace an Experienced Developer?

https://www.developerway.com/posts/debugging-with-ai
1•nadis•25m ago•0 comments

Staying engaged with AI plans: give inline feedback

https://huonw.github.io/blog/2026/02/ai-plan/
1•dbaupp•27m ago•0 comments

Building AI for Lumber's Messiest Paperwork

https://medium.com/@cambiumengineering/building-ai-for-lumbers-messiest-paperwork-a80da1a6fb4b
1•johnny313•32m ago•0 comments

California (and the Rest of America) Can't Build Like USA's Corps of Engineers

https://www.governance.fyi/p/california-and-the-rest-of-america
1•RetiredRichard•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tilth – I spent tokens so my agents would stop wasting them (~4k Rust)

https://github.com/jahala/tilth
3•jahala•34m ago•0 comments

Simone Weil, André Weil, Bourbaki and Pythagorean Mathematics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06515
1•bikenaga•34m ago•1 comments