Fun to imagine that Moffat was lurking on the SL4 and AGI lists in 2003, where the paperclip maximiser was widely discussed by Yudkowsky, although I guess there were plenty of other places it might have been repeated at that time (it's a powerful idea). Wasn't Moffat on CIX at some point? He definitely posted in various fora for years.
The visuals of Warriors’ Gate and The Girl in the Fireplace are cribbing from Cocteau, though at least they didn’t have to use a bathtub of mercury.
Fun to imagine that Moffat was lurking on the SL4 and AGI lists in 2003, where the paperclip maximiser was widely discussed by Yudkowsky, although I guess there were plenty of other places it might have been repeated at that time (it's a powerful idea). Wasn't Moffat on CIX at some point? He definitely posted in various fora for years.