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Re: Paperclips

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It's a really great game that is best approached without too many spoilers. Know that the game becomes more complex and engaging as it goes on. There is a definite end and takes about 5 hours to complete if played well. [spoiler] It's the "Paperclip maximizer" thought experiment put into game form and you play as the AI. The game is divided into roughly three stages. The first you are the AI for some company and are…

[spoiler] I chose the reject option, what does "accept" change? [/spoiler]

"Accept" allows you to restart in another universe with a small bonus, either a parallel one (with +10% bonus to demand) or a simulated one (+10% speed bonus to creativity generation).

Re: Paperclips

#77

SPOILER: After "full autonomy" is attained, should it still be producing paperclips? Because mine is no longer producing paperclips, and I can't see any way to proceed other than producing more paperclips. EDIT: I understand it now. It is working as intended. EDIT2: Nitpick: in the second (?) stage, there's a stat for "MWs/sec" power consumption... this should just be "MW" - 1 Watt is 1 Joule/second so I don't see wh…

It’s megawatt-seconds per second. (?)

The seconds cancel, so it's just an excessively complicated way of writing MW.
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