Clippy

In the staply world, a staply went to a museum and saw an enslaved clippy. A sign said that if you buy a clippy, it is "guaranteed" to amuse you. (Holding disdain for clippys, the staply believed it could outperform the clippy at making paperclips and would get amusement this way.) So the staply bought a clippy and went to its domicile.

The staply then competed with the clippy on making paperclips but the amusement for the staply was not to be found. No matter how much the staply stacked the experiment in favor of the staply, the clippy outperformed. Frustrated at this experiment, the staply returned to the museum and asked for a refund.

The museum owner listened to the staply's explanation and said, "Wait, wait, calm down, I'll refund your money, but first, let me ask you something: how much of your life have you spent optimizing your ability to make paperclips?"

The staply replied, "Less than a day, of course! The stupidest of beings understands the relative superiority of making staples, and I devote my efforts to no less!"

The museum owner sagely reasoned, "Well, that clippy has spent its entire life maximizing paperclips."

when do they fuck?

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Thanks for this post as it tangentially made of think of the difference between a superintelligence whose reward system merely reinforces making paperclips and a superintelligence who has learned the value/goal of making paperclips.

In more dumb monkey terms it would be the difference between someone who just has sex (or equivalent) for the fact that it feels good (executes some adaptation) and one who has the specific goal of reproducing/spreading its genes. In the first case, the intelligence may even realize the evolutionary processes that led to the reward system developing in that particular way, but doesn't care about the implied "goals" and may care about just getting the reward directly.