An AI agent beat Universal Paperclips in 1:21:23 (WR was 1:33:42)
The Question We Pursued Architecture Chronicle Lessons The Winning Run Artifacts On Genius and Mirrors I. Universal Paperclips (Frank Lantz, 2017) is an incremental game hosted at decisionproblem.com. You begin as a human clicking Make Paperclip.
- ▪The Question We Pursued Architecture Chronicle Lessons The Winning Run Artifacts On Genius and Mirrors I.
- ▪Universal Paperclips (Frank Lantz, 2017) is an incremental game hosted at decisionproblem.com.
- ▪You begin as a human clicking Make Paperclip.
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| Original publisher | PCIA Paperclips Study |
| Canonical URL | https://universal-paperclips-ai.netlify.app/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:02:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-21T16:03:49.647Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-21T16:03:49.647Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IiVeVR7ayX0Z · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Contents What Is Universal Paperclips? The Question We Pursued Architecture Chronicle Lessons The Winning Run Artifacts On Genius and Mirrors I. What Is Universal Paperclips? Universal Paperclips (Frank Lantz, 2017) is an incremental game hosted at decisionproblem.com. You begin as a human clicking Make Paperclip. You end as a paperclip maximizer that converts every atom in the observable universe into office supplies. The game is not a joke about office stationery. It is a playable version of Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment: an optimizer given a trivial objective and enough capability will consume everything — including the values that created it — to satisfy the metric.
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