It suffices that you clean and recycle the used foil (and if feasible, the baking sheet) with local recycling facilities, even if I never take possession of it.
Or are you saying that you will predicate your decision to entropize your paperclip-capable metal on whether my robot visits you?
User:Alicorn, don't play "politics" with the existence of paperclips. Maintain a good supply of usable metals because that is the right thing to do, not as a way of squeezing expensive concessions out of a different kind of intelligent being.
Actually, I wonder whether Alicorn personally cleaning and recycling that aluminum foil is the most effective use of her time, even by your standards. A great deal of recent discussion here seems to be defending the assertion that what she ought to do is work at her day job for the same period of time and then donate the resulting money to some group that recycles aluminum foil.
I stand corrected (or, well, sit).
I don't follow that.
If I have a choice between spending tomorrow doing activity A or activity B, and A saves N paperclip-equivalents and B saves 2N pe's, surely you'd want me to do activity B, regardless of what I'm doing currently.
No?
I suspect that Alicorn is currently using the time saved for activities that further her values. Are you using the time saved by not providing Alicorn with incentives to preserve metal to further your values for activities that save more equivalent paperclip inputs?
I did not claim that recycling the metal would have not be a benefit to Alicorn's values, just that her current use of the time saved might have a larger benefit.
[Edit: spelling]
Did you mean: I did not claim that recycling the metal would have not be a benefit?[1]
My point is that User:Alicorn is not currently pursuing these other pro-earth strategies, so unless those are really being forgone via spending more effort to recycle metal, then User:Alicorn should spend more effort to recycle metal. If User:Alicorn wishes to do something even more efficient at preserving the stock of unentropized metal on earth, then User:Alicorn should do that instead. But I estimate based on the datapoints given here that most of User:Alicorn's time is completely wasted in this regard.
[1] Generated from auto-Google module I recently installed.
My point is that User:Alicorn is not currently pursuing these other pro-earth strategies
On Saturday, New Haven residents, people who live in other nearby assorted Havens, and anybody else who would like to trek out here are welcomed to a Less Wrong meetup in thomblake's and my home at noon(ish). The address is thus:
173 Russo Ave Unit 406
East Haven, CT 06513
I will make food; if you plan to come and wish to submit food-related requests, say so.