The person who referred to &quot;LessWrong background&quot; and talked about paperclip maximizers wasn&#x27;t (at least, so it looks to me) mocking or dismissing.<p>The last paragraph of that comment does say &quot;the LessWrong folks tend to be overly dramatic in their concerns&quot; but goes on immediately to add &quot;But they do have a point that the problem of controlling something much more intelligent than yourself is hard [...] and, if truly super-human intelligence is practically possible, then it needs to be solved before we build it&quot;.