Paperclip-maximizer meme jokes that AI hype will take the joke to the singularity
joecole · x · 2026-07-23
A paperclip-maximizer meme is being repurposed to joke that the AI hype machine will take even this old thought experiment “all the way to the singularity.” The post is basically a shareable AI-internet joke rather than a technical point.
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