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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by ipython on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:00AM (#18065947)
> Google at the moment feels like a ruthless data driven company. “Our charts show that with this change people use more google services. It invades user’s privacy and pisses off a bunch of HN users but who cares? This will make us a trillion dollar company, and it is working!”

This. A million times. Be prepared for the next step: http://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by mdaniel on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:59PM (#18069955)
Holy cow, what have you done to me?! And I thought Civ5 was "one more click" syndrome...

The page is pretty sparse; do you know if there are any winning conditions, or it just goes on until `Number` in JS oveflows?

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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by dmurray on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:24PM (#18070189)
It does terminate and there's more to the story than you've seen so far.
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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by ISL on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:20AM (#18067040)
Despite my familiarity with the Paperclip Maximizer, it has still been instructive to think it through in real time. It's a nice way to think about priorities in life.

Thanks!

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