Alternative uses of paperclips
post by taw · 2012-01-08T18:24:33.344Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 16 comments
Somewhere in the distant galaxy, Clippys post pictures of alternative uses of humans.
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comment by [deleted] · 2012-01-09T00:32:24.233Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Something like this, perhaps?
(Sedlec Ossuary)
Replies from: Matt_Simpson↑ comment by Matt_Simpson · 2012-01-09T02:35:05.426Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Am I the only one who thought that looked awesome?
Edit: Does an upvote of this signify that the individual also thinks this room is awesome or that I am in fact the only one that thinks it's awesome?
Replies from: tutcomment by Vaniver · 2012-01-08T19:51:11.603Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Clippys post pictures of alternative uses of humans.
Do humans have uses besides holding paper together, or fashioning metallic objects that do so?
Replies from: TheOtherDave, wedrifid↑ comment by TheOtherDave · 2012-01-08T20:11:25.395Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Maintaining and advancing the infrastructure that allows and encourages other humans to fashion such objects? Though admittedly that's a derivative value.
↑ comment by wedrifid · 2012-01-09T03:46:54.156Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Do humans have a use besides holding paper together, or fashioning metallic objects that do so?
Is it acceptable to make paperclips out of, say, bone? Or are the humans only useful for the iron they contain (and a touch of carbon to form the alloy.)
Replies from: None↑ comment by [deleted] · 2012-01-09T04:20:52.687Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I think a sufficiently advanced clippy would be able to do a lot more than steel.
Replies from: wedrifid↑ comment by wedrifid · 2012-01-09T04:34:57.779Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
It's a matter of what kind of paperclipper it is. If it was created to make paperclips where paperclips are defined as steel paperclips of given dimensions then it doesn't matter how advanced it becomes. It'll make steel paperclips.
Mind you it can still use our atoms in a fusion generator.
Replies from: wedrifid↑ comment by wedrifid · 2012-01-10T03:42:40.078Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
It just occurred to me that it is iron that is the building material required. That being the case everything in the human body (and the universe) represents either a building material or a potential source of nuclear energy. How convenient!
Replies from: Armok_GoB↑ comment by Armok_GoB · 2012-01-10T14:42:27.193Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Huh? I think your grammar broke. Or you're trying for some kind of very far fetched pun. Either way, please clarify.
Replies from: arundelo, wedrifid↑ comment by arundelo · 2012-01-10T15:08:25.183Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The second sentence begins with an absolute phrase. My Little, Brown Handbook says that these are "always set off from the rest of the sentence with punctuation, usually a comma". In this instance the comma would come between "case" and "everything".
↑ comment by wedrifid · 2012-01-10T14:57:53.485Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Huh? I think your grammar broke.
Not especially. I simplified things somewhat but I don't think it was necessary.
Or you're trying for some kind of very far fetched pun. Either way, please clarify.
I'm confused. What isn't clear? The physics reference?
Replies from: Armok_GoBcomment by lukeprog · 2012-01-09T02:30:03.011Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
See also: The Paperclip Art of Tim Sterling.