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Universal Paperclips. Universal Paperclips is a 2017 American incremental game created by Frank Lantz of New York University. The user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips. Initially the user clicks on a button to create a single paperclip at a time; as other options quickly open up, the user can sell paperclips to create ...
In the third act of the incremental game Universal Paperclips, after all of Earth's matter has been converted into paperclips, players are tasked with sending Von Neumann probes into the universe to find and consume all matter in service of making paperclips, eventually entering a war with another class of probes called "drifters" that are ...
Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent, goal directed beings (human and non-human) to pursue similar sub-goals, even if their ultimate goals are quite different. [1] More precisely, agents (beings with agency) may pursue instrumental goals —goals which are made in pursuit of some particular end ...
A self-replicating machine is a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. [1][2][3] The concept of self-replicating machines has been advanced and examined by Homer Jacobson, Edward F ...
A fact from Universal Paperclips appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2017 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Universal Paperclips is an incremental game where the goal is to convert the entire universe into paperclips?
Incremental game. Incremental games, also known as clicker games, clicking games (on PCs) or tap games (in mobile games), are video games whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions such as clicking on the screen repeatedly. This "grinding" earns the player in-game currency which can be used to increase the rate of currency ...
Giant paper clip erected in 1989 in Sandvika, Norway, to honor Vaaler's invention. This 23-foot-tall (7 m) clip is the Gem, not the one patented by Vaaler. Johan Vaaler (March 15, 1866 – March 14, 1910) was a Norwegian inventor and patent clerk. [1] He has often erroneously been identified as the inventor of the common paper clip.
A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical, singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe. [ 1 ]: 6 Finding a theory of everything is one of the major unsolved problems in physics ...