The paperclips were GPUs: Bostrom's thought experiment becomes literal
DavideCrapis · x · 2026-10-25
One-liner meme: "Turns out the paperclips were GPUs." A nod to Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment, mapped onto today's industry-wide scramble for compute — the AI field's obsession with GPUs makes the old parable feel literal. Short but highly shareable.
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