Anything may look like "paperclip maximising" if you don't know their actual goals and have sufficiently poor theory of mind. One could look at a corn farmer a

Anything may look like "paperclip maximising" if you don't know their actual goals and have sufficiently poor theory of mind. One could look at a corn farmer and assume they blindly optimize to produce maximum corn. They actually are going for profit based upon market supply, demand, and input costs. They won't overstep property lines and start turning the entire world into corn.