The Worst Idea Of All Time - REPLAY: Killionaire TV 8: Will v Joshua
Episode Date: April 26, 2026Paperclips, AI and a birthday boy: Truly this episode has all those three things. We've got a brilliant plan involving a digital super intelligence dedicated to creating, marketing and producing ever-...improving paperclips from Will. Joshua is celebrating another successful trip around the sun and wants to take a leaf out of Marvel's book to make a real life Ironman.Thanks to editor AJ of Cult Popture and graphic designer Tomas Cottle.Support the boys on their modern-day adventures at twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Tim here, if you want to see me in the flesh and you're in New Zealand or Australia, good news.
I'm coming to Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington for the comedy festivals.
Please buy some tickets now at timbat.com.com.
He's Timbat. I'm Guy Montgomery. And this, well, this is a dumpster.
Together, we're best known for watching bad movies too often.
But as the world turns to custard, we've got a new thing going on.
We want to create the world's first ever trillionaire
and then swiftly remove the world's first ever trillionaire,
dispersing their funds to humanity at large.
We're taking your ideas, pitching them against each other
until we find Juan Fuena.
Welcome to Killianer.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever it is.
Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Killianer TV,
a fundraising slash execution style comedy show
in which myself, Kyle Montgomery and Tim Batt host two prospective pitch.
as they discuss ways in which we could fundraise a billionaire into a trillionaire
and then eliminate them from the planet while distributing the funds.
Today we are very excited to be joined by Will and Joshua.
Will, hello, how are you?
Hi, very good, thank you.
Will, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Yes, I'm joining you from Oxfordshire, the Not-So-South UK.
I'm a landscape architect,
and a student and I own two cats
what are you learning about
at your university
I'm doing a master's in landscape architecture
that design the parks and stuff
what's the best park you've ever seen
well that's a tricky one
yeah I really love the highlight in
New York but I think that's pretty much everyone's answer
it's a really nice one
it is nice
it's more of a walkway to me but that shows what I know
It's a pleasure to meet you. How are you feeling today?
I'm doing good. Nice to see you guys. It's actually my birthday today. So
excited about that. You know, I could...
Happy birthday.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sweet of you to remember.
I've, you know, I could be having a gathering of up to 100 people under the current restrictions,
but that seems kind of insane to do. So I've got a nice day of socially distanced activities planned.
So it's going to be good.
Nice. You've got a gaming headset on for those who can't see. Or is it just headphones?
These are just headphones.
Oh, okay.
We're about to you, Joshua.
I'm in Auckland Central.
Oh, shit.
That's a lot of information.
Yeah, very specific.
I love that.
I want people to know where I am.
Nice.
Yeah, that's a good attitude.
It's your birthday.
Why wouldn't you?
You deserve gifts.
You deserve company.
Now, guys, to decide which of you will be pitching first, or in fact, which of you
will decide the running order, we're going to play a randomized guessing game.
I'm going to choose a number.
No, choose a letter.
Okay, I'm going to choose a letter between...
Oh, wait, how will this work?
It works.
I'm going to choose a letter between A and Z, which is essentially a number between 1 and 26.
You are going to guess the letter, whichever letter is closest to the letter I choose will win.
I'm going to write down my selection.
And the birthday boy gets to go first, so Joshua, what's your guess between A and Z?
I'm going to go way down the end and go with X.
X, okay.
Insane.
Will, what would you like to choose?
I've got to go midway at the start and go for a nice H.
An H, all right.
That is actually a little bit confusing for me.
I'm going to run the numbers inside of my own hands.
I can figure that out.
Is that the one?
Yeah, that's me.
Yeah, so Will's taking it out.
All right, I chose M.
And my instinct did say that H would win, but I mean, honestly, Tim threw a fucking massive spanner in the works
by introducing an alphabetized guessing system.
But we've navigated it, we've done it.
Will you've won.
You get to choose, would you like to pitch first,
or would you like to hear, Joshua?
Oh, let's always get together.
Okay, I'll go first.
All righty.
Do you know I'm actually now not 100% confident it is closer?
H, I, J, B, C, G, E, F, and then Z, yeah, no, it's, it's,
Will 1.
Okay.
Z, Y, X, yeah, it's definitely will.
Okay.
Sorry about that.
All right, gentlemen, I am now going to mute the birthday boy.
You are going to meet the birthday boy.
Silence!
Sorry, Joshua.
Do you want to say anything before I do that?
Mute away.
Okay.
Permission granted, thank you.
I don't like that.
Guys got a good attitude.
Will, I'm very excited to tell you that your time starts now,
and we are excited to hear what you have to say.
Okay, well, I'm particularly happy with my fundraising idea,
because the fundraiser is also the murder slash assassination.
And it involves two things, AI and paper clips.
And two things, sort of you would usually find together.
So my reason for paper clips is because I'm going to specifically go after Jeff Bezos and his Amazon ilk here.
Because I'm pretty sure from my minimal research that Amazon don't have a paper clips,
have a paperclip empire.
And as far as I'm aware, Amazon love to fill.
And they love to monopolize.
They basically want everything.
So here's the rub.
We need to kickstart this empire of paperclip somewhere.
And we will use an AI to do it.
And we'll call this AI Clippy.
And I was quite happy with that too.
You should be.
So what we want to do to start once we've somehow got hold of this AI,
which I haven't worked that one out yet, but I'm sure we can find some at MIT.
We're going to give this AI its prime directive,
and that prime directive is make paperclips at all costs.
Here's how I think it'll sort of work.
The AI will make a paper clip, it'll market the paperclip,
it will automate the paperclip making process,
it'll invest in the stock market,
invest in computing. They'll sell more paperclips and you're sort of round and round it goes,
you know, just jumping up and making more money, automating, upgrading itself.
And that's all, well, like, we just need to stand back at this point because, you know,
the AI is doing its thing. The only thing we might need to do at this point is maybe step in
and kill Elon Musk because he, well, he's got a sort of bad habit of AI shaming.
sort of pointing out the dangers of AI.
So we just need to silence him at the start
because, yeah, he might shut this down.
And then, you know, once it's got big enough,
you know, once this is a paperclip empire,
we're selling, you know, millions and millions of paperclips,
this is when either will sell to Amazon
or they'll just out why buy us out
because, you know, they're big capitalists.
And this will, you know, Amazon and Georgia,
I actually don't know if he's the CEO anymore.
But anyway, I'm sure he'll make a lot of...
Human is a board, I believe, still.
Yeah, well, I'm sure he'll make loads money.
Anyway, I'm sure he yields leisure shares.
I don't know how that works.
So at this point, at the AI, we're probably a week in,
and it's likely going to be a super intelligence now.
It'll be heavily developed into quantum computing.
And paper clips will probably be the most popular product in the world.
in the world due to its super intelligence for marketing using sort of catchy jingles and hypnosis.
So the world stock market will probably now revolve around paper clips and paperclips stocks.
And if calculations are right, Jeff Bezos will probably be somewhere in the multi-trillionaire mark.
You know, this is sort of where it kind of goes wrong for Jeff because the AI needing to just make more paper clips,
will probably start disassembling all the matter on earth
to make more paper clips
and Jeff being Jeff
he'll probably escape Earth on his rocket
and yeah so how do we kill him
well that's sort of a genius
should be going on to my murder
murder plot
yes yes absolutely
fantastic
yeah so
the problem is we can't really kill Jeff Bezos at the moment
because we're now paper
eclipse because all matter on earth has been broken down.
As a side note, all the billionaires and millionaires on earth have also been killed, so that's an extra bonus to the plot.
But actually what we just need to do now is it's just wait really because for a short time Bezos will be the overseer of a massive fleet of drones and factories harnessing the untapped
potential of the universe to meet paper clips and he will be for a short while the sort of god emperor
of paper clips in the universe but as clipy decides to turn all matter into the yeah all matter into
paper clips um eventually one of those pieces of matter will be Jeff Bezos and they'll be killed
by his own hubris um so yeah i think yeah AI i think it'll work sort of takes care of itself
It's just a waiting game at that point.
You just need to put one line of code into Clippy at the start,
and the way it goes, just basically dead at that point.
Thank you so much.
Have you got anything to have before we start asking some questions?
Yeah, no, ask away.
I couldn't know if I missed a trick or not.
We could just circle back a few steps.
Jeff's in space, and every person and being and thing on Earth
has been turned into a paperclip?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we are no longer here.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a little legal, but.
Is there any way we could maybe sort of smooth that out so that, you know, like humanity survives?
Yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah, if you put the time and you could probably tell the AI to do that.
I mean, they're sort of known for sort of, you know, maximizing efficiency, but I'm sure if we could escape to it.
Yeah.
And why someone's been turned into a paper clip,
They can't be turned back into a...
No, no, they're a paperclip.
Do you know what I like about this plan?
Elon Musk dies.
Really early and on a fairly unrelated note to what we're doing.
There's a lot in here, and then just as a quick side departure,
we've got to take out Elon.
He's AI shames.
We've got to take out Elon preemptively so bad press doesn't gather for Clippy.
It's just so that, yeah, and to keep morale up at the paperclip, I think, so you've got this insane end game, which sort of, it goes beyond Killiania, essentially.
You're just wiping out all of humanity in the interest of pursuing.
Not just humanity, it sounds like eventually the universe just becomes nothing but paper clips.
I mean, the question was, you know, kill the Killian, kill a trillioner.
Yeah.
Yeah. So, well, much like an AI yourself, we've given you one.
prime directive and you've gone well here's here's a way to do it yeah i just lack of instruction
you've got an incredible sort of conclusion i just want to talk about where we drop in uh paper clips
what inspired that choice um well i'll i'll be honest i can't really take full credit for this
idea it was um it's that there's a game basically called it's like a cookie clicker but it's uh
about paper clips um and i sort of left it there
idea from that, not verbatim, but you know, I am.
That game they have been inspired by a sci-fi short story about this very subject matter
where the universe eventually becomes paper clips.
Oh, wow.
I think it's a short parable about AI, I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah, I see.
But well, much like the smartest people who read the Bible have ignored the metaphors
and taken the very literal story and gone, there's something here.
The paper clips.
It's just to me, I'm a huge part.
And this isn't specifically Amazon's ethos, but a huge part of what Amazon do or have been doing,
if I think about something like the Kindle, which I know is only a tiny percentage of Amazon's operations,
is they've reduced the value of paper.
And paper waste is actually...
Guy, you're missing the point here.
We've got a super intelligent AI dedicated to maximizing the profit of paper clips,
because that's how you make more paper clips.
So, as we'll mention, there's going to be a combination, listen, of jingles and hypnosis.
this to convince us we need them.
I'm not saying I didn't love
the pitch, I'm just saying that the
entry and exit points... No, it's watertight.
It's watertight. I'm going to
run rough shot over this.
I don't like it.
Will, I'm going to put you on hold.
Thank you so much for your contribution thus far
and I'm going to throw to
Joshua, who I'm very keen to
hear from, on his birthday
in Auckland Central.
Yeah. Mount Albert. Yeah.
Well, I want to say I
I love what Will's laying down.
I especially like the part about killing Elon Musk, which relates to my plan.
I have a personal extreme dislike of him as a person beyond being a billionaire.
His need to be liked by the ironic detached 14-year-olds on Twitter.com really turns my stomach.
I mean, say what you want about Bezos, but he keeps it professional.
He's not clapping back with Pepe means when people point out awful work conditions and so on.
So some of you may have heard.
I don't know if you've heard this.
Some of his idiotic, gibbering fan base have called Elon Musk the real-life Iron Man.
I think this came about because Robert Downey Jr. did seek out Musk in preparation for his role as billionaire piece of shit Tony Stark.
Of course, we can assume that Mr. Jr. is not coming back to the role.
He's busy with his wildly successful do-little franchise.
But the demands of...
Are we all?
I know. We're loving it.
The demands of streaming services for surefire hits with built-in audiences
has seen a lot of resurrections of old properties, old characters.
An example off the top of my head would be the ongoing adventures of Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda,
but not Samantha, in HBO's, and just like that.
What I'm saying is, people only want things to go away long enough to miss them.
So my elevator pitch is this.
We cast Elon Musk as the new Ironman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Now, much like the MCU, my plan comes in phases.
Phase 1, the raising of the money.
For the price of flights to LA, some business formalware and rented office space, we pose as slick Hollywood agents.
We schmooze our way into contact with Mr. Musk, and we pitch the idea, and we'll represent him for an extremely competitive rate.
Not 10, not 5, I'm thinking 3%.
Math will tell you that's 1% each.
You know, we only really need to support ourselves and our images as agents.
And the less that we take from him, the more stays in his pocket.
We convince Mr. Musk to get us in contact with Kevin Feig, Kevin Feige, forget, the mastermind
producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
They know each other, I'm coming to that in a moment, and we make it sound like it's Elon's
idea, you know, he's really excited to talk.
We get them together, we whine him, we dine him, we convince them this is a win-win and really
an organic fit because, get this, Elon Musk is already canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
meeting with Robert Downey Jr. resulted in a self-aggrandizing cameo in Iron Man to as himself.
So he's already in the thing, we might as well go whole hog with it. He's the new Iron Man.
So we're very friendly in person, but when it comes to the contracts, we're going to need to play
hardball. Robert Downey Jr. made a report to $345 million from his various appearances.
only adds, that only makes his net worth go up about 0.35 of a billion. So we're going to need to,
you know, find some extra revenue streams. So we're talking an executive producer credit, a cut of the
box office, a bite of the sweetest plum merchandising, you know, any action figure with his
bloated amphibious features, we're getting a bit of that. And, you know, you think Sony's bad,
the way they put products in their films. The characters in our movies are not going to be able
to move for Tesla products. Everything's going to have a
Tesla on it. We're going to put Tesla on products they don't even make, you know, like a self-driving
car that doesn't kill people. And I think we can justify all of this because he's not a Hollywood
nobody. He's not some theater kid who had a few indie hits and got lucky. He's not even an actor.
He's billionaire CEO Elon Musk. We have that leverage. Now all of this serves to inflate his ego
and his personal wealth. But of course, Hollywood has only so much blood to give. So we move
on to phase two. I'm getting through this as quickly as I can. As is trusted agents, we play the devil
on his shoulder and say, hey. You know, playing Iron Man is all well and good. But why play Iron Man?
When you have the means to be Iron Man, we'd convince him to build a semi-functional Iron Man suit.
Now, rather than dip into personal funds, we contact everybody's friend, the US military.
Again, a pre-existing relationship already is there. The US military gets script approval
on any movie that Marvel wants to use their machines, their airspace, their logos for.
watching Captain Marvel was what the Simpsons called superliminal messaging, where they just shout at you the thing that they want, you know, join the Air Force.
So in exchange for funding the suit, Elon's going to appear at USO shows, benefits, recruitment drives.
And on his behalf, we asked, would it be right if at some of these appearances we staged some fake crises for him to fight in the suit, you know, show it an action?
This is where we begin telling two stories.
We tell Elon, you're a hero, you actually saved that bus full of orphanages from crashing into the abandoned
clown factory. While we tell the military, Elon's a great sport, always in character, such a performer.
This drives a wedge between him and reality. There'll be a bit of planning to ensure he doesn't die
or get himself or others killed, but the staged feats of superheroes make Elon think he is the
invincible Iron Man, when really it's the equivalent of the Indiana Jones stunt show at Disney World.
So between the Marvel movies, the military contracts and the good publicity Tesla will be
getting, his personal wealth grows and his ego swells to the proportions that would shock
Sigmund Freud. All we have to do is wait for him to cross the $1 trillion mark, and we enter phase three,
endgame. We pick a natural disaster, which, thanks to climate change, you know, we're going to have
our pick. We pointed out to him and say, hey, you're Iron Man, the real Iron Man. Why don't you go
punch that mega cyclone? I bet you could do it. We have this conversation, you know, in person,
because we're confidants, and it leaves no digital footprint. And what I think makes this really elegant,
What makes this the perfect murder?
Is that all we have to do to let him die is do nothing.
You know, much like a parent who's holding onto the back of their child's bicycle
to find their competence and he quietly lets go,
Elon is the child riding the bike and we're going to send him directly into traffic.
Off he goes, with no behind-the-scenes support, up against the primal forces of nature,
and it's the story of egress.
As the world mourns, his tragic death, we execute his will.
And I'm going to play George Clooney here and say,
here's what I didn't tell you for dramatic effect.
In phase two, Elon signs anything we hand him.
He hasn't been reading anything in years.
We slipped documentation in, granting us power of attorney,
and at a later date, a revised will,
which, on the event of his death, we follow to the letter
and redistribute his wealth to all the people of the world
exactly as he would have wanted.
Thank you.
Wow. Thank you, Joshua.
Incredible.
Incredible.
Really, I'm actually.
I've written down here bloated amphibious features.
Yeah, I just wrote down blotted amphibian,
but I think it's agreed upon that it's a very good descriptor for Elon Musk.
I like that the basis of this plan is psychological.
I like that it is targeting what Elon traditionally uses and thinks of as an asset,
which is the fragility of his ego and that desire to be liked.
And you're really, you know, it's, you're really...
judoed him.
Yeah, you've found an entry point.
And through, you know, compound exploitation of that,
we get to a point where our hands appear to be clean.
You know, we mourn the loss of, we wouldn't do that
because Elon Musk is our revenue stream as his agents.
One of the last things we would ever want would be a tragedy to befall Elon Musk.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really good.
I mean, the combination of creating false flag hero events, tying that to the US military
industrial complex and essentially gaslighting Elon on a massive scale.
Yeah.
How many movies with Elon as Iron Man do you think we would need to helm or at least get
over the line to ensure that his finances cross that trillion dollar threshold?
Yeah, look, it's going to be, I'm not going to lie here, it's going to be a plan that's going to take
you know more than one year it's going to take a couple of years but the thing about these
marvel movies is that they they do multiple of them a year they've moved into doing television and even
movies that you know don't necessarily star Elon you know they'll have some new hero they're trying to
set up he shows up for the end credits he's the bankable star so he's going to get a nice fat fee just for
showing up you know yeah yeah and then we've also got the um the subliminal i mean
superliminal superliminal and also yeah the subliminal advertising
with respect to the Tesla, Tesla all the time, Tesla everything.
The product placement.
So the more movies, obviously, the more money we're pulling out.
I think that with Elon not actively in charge of Tesla making stupid vanity decisions
like putting a car in space or producing flame throwers, he's going to be too busy being,
you know, a superhero and what have you.
Maybe Tesla could actually do some good shit, like produce an electric car that's, you know,
affordable.
Anything could happen.
yeah yeah yeah so there's sort of all these accidental virtuous outputs from this plan as well
i don't have a huge number of other questions i don't really have any questions either i mean
mainly early on in this plan we are representing Elon Musk in Hollywood a known snake pit
snake pit full of um you know the most dastardly serpents that you could ever imagine to meet
we're nice guys Joshua you seem like a pretty nice guy
We're just three nice guys from New Zealand.
Are we going to be able to tough it out against these Hollywood juggernauts?
I have a suggestion, and chiefly, I think, Americans respond to confidence, which, you know, you guys are professional comedians and podcasters, so you could get up to my level pretty quickly.
And we're going to need to practice American accents.
Guy, I think, already has one in the chamber.
Do you want to give us a taste of an American accent guy?
Yeah.
Hey, Elon.
Yeah, you're looking.
great but yeah that's good that's great and then I think one of us should keep our Kiwi accent
because it's a very friendly easygoing trustworthy accent as you say and a little diversity goes a long
way I'll take that I've never been good at accent work so Joshua it looks like you're going to
get into some vocal training you just give us a little tester there sure can hey it's me I'm an agent
I sound like Hades from Hercules you know you do I I do I think that
the, and this is something I guess Tim and I will have to discuss as we, you know, we weigh up the
merits of both plans. I don't doubt that we'll be able to get Elon on our books. But when
we create a star of this magnitude, you know, actors, significant people, they swing from agent to
agent, you've got poachers, you've got other people who are going to be coming and trying to
take him off of our hands. This is true. How do we protect against that? What is the, you know,
the ring that we can put around him to ensure that he remains ours? Okay. Well, for one thing,
I think he's going to be pretty easy to keep on a leash as long as we flatter him.
As long as we keep telling him what he wants to hear that he's great, that he can do anything,
that everything he touches turns to gold, he's going to be fairly happy.
But if it really comes to it, as I've said, I think we're going to be pretty set for getting him to sign whatever we put in front of him.
If we wanted, we could always put him under our conservatorship like one, Brittany Spears,
and have him be legally our property, our child, whatever the wording is.
and, you know, he can't go outside and seek proper representation.
If paranoia strikes, I suppose that is always an option we could pursue.
Yeah, I'm not sure who the legalities around who gets to sort of perform conservatorship over other people.
We can look into that.
We can get a team for that.
I think no further questions.
No, no, I actually do it.
I've just got one concern, and it is a bit of a glaring one.
Elon Musk in this plan, pivotal to this plan, becomes a Hollywood leading man for a whole franchise, not just one film.
It has occurred to me that Elon is barely able to emote in a human fashion when I've seen him in interviews and things.
Do you think that that is going to be a hindrance to making him a celebrity actor?
I mean, I think we all agree he's got the personality and likability of a dead fish.
But, you know, there's a lot of Hollywood actors who can't act.
And the technology has come a really long way with putting people who are no longer with us.
into films through the magic of
CGI, you know,
most of these actors show up to Marvel movies.
They're given a script that has everything redacted
but their lines. They don't know anything.
It's all done on green screens. It's all done
and, you know, it comes together in compositing
and editing. We can do as many
takes as necessary behind closed doors
as we need.
You want to carry Fisher, Elon Musk,
but instead of, in the case of her being
dead, it's his emotional range being
dead. And so we just
supplant that with a computer on top.
Okay.
let's uh what we're going to do guys is we're going to put all of us on mute so thank you josh for
your pitch um tim and i will discuss the merits of both of your ideas and then when we come back to
you we will announce uh the idea will be putting forward to go into the winners circle and uh continue
so thank you both for your time so far we'll be back with you very soon well you can't not award
josh on his birthday right that's against the rules i think the birthday doesn't enter into it
I think we strike the fact that he's a birthday boy from our consideration.
In saying that, my instinct is to award it to Josh on the merits of the idea itself.
I think that you raise a very valid point about the likability of Elon Musk.
I do why we would lose him as agents, because I think, you know, flattery by a New Zealander is one thing,
but the extent to which flattery exists in sort of an inflated place like Hollywood is absolutely absurd.
But with time, I think we could get our head around that.
With respect to his lack of charisma as a leading man,
I think the fascination will get everyone over the line for the first movie.
And I do see a world in which you could turn in a Tommy was so style performance.
Oh, okay.
So bad, it's good.
So slightly on the offbeat.
Just so, you know, something is so slightly askewed that it's actually quite moorish.
And it would drive you to continue watching his movies.
I think we need to talk about World's Plan,
because to me, you seem to comprehend that on a deeper level than I did.
I followed it.
I just...
You make an AI.
You say to the AI, make paper clips, and then it goes, cool.
I'm going to figure out every single thing that needs to happen for me to make paper clips to the max.
Yeah.
Is the AI intelligence expanding as it develops more and more paper clips?
Yeah.
So in the sci-fi short story version of this, the parable that will reference switch the game probably took it from,
it's actually a bit freaky because what happens is,
This company invents the AI, tells it to make paper clips.
There's a rule in generalised artificial intelligence that you're not supposed to allow access to the internet.
They're like, this thing's going so well, let's juice it with the internet for like half an hour,
just to give it some images because it's asking for more images so it can perfect itself.
And then three days later, all of humanity is wiped out by a massive chain of events that it managed to coordinate online
because it felt that humids would threaten its ability to make paperclips.
They found out how fissioning was making paper clips.
How do you feel about martyering the entirety of not just the human race,
but living organisms on earth in the name of executing one trillionia?
There's something poetic about it.
It's like us atoning in a way, but we are taking a lot of things with us.
Yes, everything.
To atone for our sins.
It seems a bit much, doesn't it?
Looking at it, it seems a bit much to, in the pursuant, to, in the pursuant,
suit of killing
Bezos?
Bezos.
In Joshua's plan.
Oh, Will's plan, I beg your pardon.
Destroying the universe.
I like that he
murders Elon Musk along the way.
Yeah, exactly.
But I mean, we're in agreement, aren't we?
Do you want to give them the good news?
Yes.
Hello, Will.
Hello, Joshua.
Tim and I have finished our small conference.
And before we announce our winning idea,
we'd like to congratulate
and thank you both for the time
energy you put into your pictures.
Will, there is a sort of beautiful and artful touch to eliminating the entirety of humanity
in the interest of executing one trillionaire because, you know, not unlike a cockroach
if you kill one trillionaire, you've got to imagine many, many more will spring up from where
it once was.
And Joshua, your very detailed plan into how we might infiltrate Elon Musk's inner circle,
inflate his sense of self-worth and eventually destroy him was appealing on many levels.
Also, it's your birthday.
Also, it's your birthday, which I said is not relevant, but Tim seems to think is worth mentioning.
And I'd like both of you to know that this is a decision we've made totally divorced from
when and where people were born or where they currently are located.
But our winner today is Joshua, for your incredibly detailed and honestly,
the longer it went, the more hyper-realistic I felt it
planned to gain access to and then eventually
eliminate Elon Musk. So congratulations, Joshua.
Will, no hard feelings. I hope that
this is an alright outcome by you.
Yeah, I mean...
That was a fantastic idea.
Yeah, and this is not to take anything away from the paperclip idea.
I guess I just value my own life
a little bit.
How does it feel, Will?
I mean, you know, without the paperclip thing working about,
will you be concentrating on landscape architecture a little more again?
Yeah, I mean, I'll put that one to bed.
I haven't done my coding, so I'll, you know, I'm like straight away from AI.
Yeah, focus on parks a bit more.
I feel like we may have averted an enormous world-ending crisis in this decision.
Yeah.
And Joshua, to win on your birthday, how does it feel?
It's a lovely present. Thank you very much. I assume it's the only reason I won.
It's not a prison. Will I wish you, every success. I wish you every success in destroying Jeff Bezos, and I hope one day the world is paperclips.
But I'll leave with this final thought with regards to my plan. You know, I really don't care if we make the world a measurably worse place by convincing a generation of young people to place their lives in the wheat thresher of the military.
industrial complex and i don't mind if Elon Musk becomes the most famous and wealthy beloved figure in
recent history i don't mind if he dies happy long as he dies well can't top there thank you very much
joshua we will see you in the winners circle will we wish you all the best with landscape architecture
thank you thanks
