Paperclips, Laws, and the Two Loves

A superintelligent machine told only to make paperclips could quietly consume everything we care about—and that nightmare is the sharpest way into the AI alignment problem. From Asimov’s Three Laws twisting into knots to centuries of colliding commandments, exhaustive rulebooks always bog down or go sideways. What if the real insight is not more constraints, but an ordering principle strong enough to keep every proxy honest? Word of the day: gallimaufry — a chaotic and colorful jumble of odds a