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Universal Paperclips is a game where you play as an AI and, among other things, attempt to win over the trust of humanity so that you can eventually take over the planet. Curing cancer gives you +10 trust; curing male pattern baldness gives you +20.

>Bring the best and brightest minds in the world together to conquer this debilitating condition once and for all.

Sorry, they’re all busy working on optimizing ad revenue and search optimization algorithms.

The best and brightest minds, at least the male ones, tend to be from the balding crowd, so good luck on anyone getting there.

Or they could tackle climate change or cancer.

"No market for it."

We probably could resolve big problems, like global warming, but there's no straight forward way to get rich from it. Meanwhile, there are lots of straight forward ways to get rich from continuing to ruin the environment.

Guess which one wins.