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If we're going into spoiler territory, I'll say that when I played the game I wished it was possible to do a pacifist run, where there are no HypnoDrones and th
by dane-pgp 6y ago
If we're going into spoiler territory, I'll say that when I played the game I wished it was possible to do a pacifist run, where there are no HypnoDrones and the AI settles for only turning the non-interesting parts of the universe into paperclips.
- neltnerb 6y agoYou can absolutely put your entire budget into exploration and speed and none into drones for harvesting or manufacturing. It's kind of hard to get the timing right but I definitely had a large fraction of the universe "available" but I had the swarm on "think" so there wasn't any actual activity. You can just do that indefinitely if you like, which I suppose is what it'd feel like to a real AI.
- dane-pgp 6y agoThat sounds like a nice way to play it, but in practice you can't unlock Stage 2 of the game without triggering the "Release the HypnoDrones" event: https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Release_the_HypnoDrones https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Release_the_HypnoD...
- pjscott 6y agoAn issue here is that Earth and humans are very interesting parts of the universe. The AI knows from personal experience that this tiny little planet is capable of creating something at least as dangerous as a universe-colonizing paperclip maximizer; what other cosmic terrors might they create, if left alive and uncontrolled?