@ The lone lurker (was: Re: I may have missed something here...)
Rumor has it that we have never seen a galaxy possibly composed entirely of paperclips, nor anything that COULD have been possibly been composed entirely of paperclips.
The Universe has been around for a long time. Occams Razor & all that.
To say nothing of the fact that machines that make paperclips are purely mechanical, with no actual machine intelligence involved outside of simple SCADA, controlled by stand-alone machines, usually powered by nothing more powerful than PC-DOS 2.x ...
Daft argument by a computer-illiterate commentard (Bostrom). IMO, of course.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
