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Fesshole 🧻 (fesshole@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 21:20:59 JST Fesshole 🧻

73 yo. I own about 23,000 staples. I use at most half-a-dozen a month. My staples will clearly outlive me. Some of the staples are in plastic boxes, so they will last a long time even if landfilled. So this is my legacy, boxes of staples? I get stressed thinking about this.

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  Clayfoot (clayfoot@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 21:39:44 JST Clayfoot
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  @fesshole You finally have enough to build monumental staple crafts. Your time has come.
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    staple cube handmade #staples #handmade #gampang
    
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  John Deters (targetdrone@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 22:19:26 JST John Deters
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  @fesshole That's it! We've found the AI that's going to take over the world!
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer
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    Instrumental convergence
    
    Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency of sufficiently intelligent, goal-directed beings (human and nonhuman) to pursue similar sub-goals (such as survival or resource acquisition), even if their ultimate goals are quite different. More precisely, beings with agency may pursue similar instrumental goals—goals which are made in pursuit of some particular end, but are not the end goals themselves—because it helps accomplish end goals. Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations. Proposed basic AI drives include utility function or goal-content integrity, self-protection, freedom from interference, self-improvement, and non-satiable acquisition of additional resources. Instrumental...
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  sammythenerdrage (sammythenerdrage@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 23:04:47 JST sammythenerdrage
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  @fesshole In Poland, there's a daily news bulletin on TV called Teleexpress. It features a segment called The Gallery of Positively Crazy (Quirky) People. I think you'd fit right in there. 😉
  
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  xs4me2 (xs4me2@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 23:16:29 JST xs4me2
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  This thought can easily be generalized to all of us…
  
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  derptron (crazyeddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 23:22:30 JST derptron
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  @fesshole I'm picturing a shirt for this one.
  Upper text: I'm 75 years old
  Lower: And this is my legacy?
  In the middle is a guy at a desk surrounded by stacks of staples with a thought bubble: "I have more staples than I can possible use in a lifetime." He's very distraught and sad with his face on his fist and elbow on table with a thousand yard stare. Someone killed ALL of his puppies.
  
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