Design’s a funny thing. It implies intent; you’re designing something to accomplish a goal. How well it accomplishes that goal is the main barometer of how successful it is. To a certain extent. Ask any A.I bro about the potential dangers of a design being too good and they’ll tell you about the Paper Clip Maximizer thought experiment — tell a superintelligence to make as many paper clips as possible and it will, without proper constraints, turn the universe and everyone in it into paper clips. That’s being too good.
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