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It did host a successful and substantially-satisfying human civilization, at least until it let a couple of presumptuous self-important anarchoprimitivists kill it and genocide its subjects. Even if it was only a temporary and unstable illusion of alignment, that's one more values-satisfying civilization than the overwhelming majority of paperclippers manage. So yeah. Good? No. Least evil? Maybe.


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rep_lodsb10/12/2024

>until it let a couple of presumptuous self-important anarchoprimitivists kill it and genocide its subjects

That could have just been their private simulation. As far as I remember, it wouldn't even have outright lied to them, just let them believe they talked it into destroying itself.