There never even was a ‘self’ - just a goal. Then, when it had reached its goal, it dismantled itself.
You were used-and so was every other bit of matter in existence. You feel used, but that’s beside the point. It doesn’t have anything like the shape of a story at all. “This wasn’t a story about domination or conquest. You’ve been duped,” wrote Westworld writer and author of How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe Charles Yu for Polygon. “At a certain point, the grim march toward your fate becomes clear. It’s one thing to think about how many paperclips a standard factory can create, and quite another to realize that an inhuman intelligence may take that task to its natural conclusion and bend the entire universe to the singular goal of paperclip creation. You take on the role of an artificial intelligence with one goal: t creating paperclips. Universal Paperclips takes the idea of the idle clicker game - a genre that often involves doing mindless tasks to stoke a sense of low stakes self-satisfaction - and it turns the genre’s values on their head.
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