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We already live in this world. Capitalism is by design, a paperclip maximizer[1].

Whether or not this means we live in a hellish dystopia is in the eye of the beholder.

[1] https://thoughtinfection.com/2014/04/19/capitalism-is-a-pape...

Nice derail! But the fact that there isn't yet a 400-lightyear expanding hole in the Milky Way suggests that corporations are not, in fact, as dangerous as unaligned machine superintelligences are being alleged to be.

The fact that there isn't yet a 400-lightyear expanding hole in the Milky Way suggests that corporations have not yet figured out how to be as dangerous as science-fiction mechanical superintelligences are alleged to be in their quest to maximize paperclips.

If we don't think that AI can be safely controlled, why do we think that corporations can be? Likewise, if we think that they can, why not the converse? Which fail-safes are effective for one, but not the other?

> why not the converse

In that regard, the term superhuman-AI is used.

Capitalism is rather a human worth maximizer. It's not a money maximizer.

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