Fun addictive game, if you are bored - Making Paper Clips, Simulation and space exploration.

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Originally I played this few years ago when i first saw the wired article. Yesterday found this again when cleaning up my bookmarks. 

https://www.wired.com/story/the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-paperclip/

Game : https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ 

Universal Paperclips is a 2017 incremental game created by Frank Lantz of New York University. The user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips. Initially the user clicks on a box to create a single paperclip at a time; as other options quickly open up, the user can sell paperclips to create money to finance machines that build paperclips automatically. At various levels the exponential growth plateaus, requiring the user to invest resources such as money, raw materials, or computer cycles into inventing another breakthrough to move to the next phase of growth. The game ends if the AI succeeds in converting all the matter in the universe into paperclips.

 

TLDR: 

Paperclips is a simple clicker game that manages to turn you into an artificial intelligence run amok.

 

Cheat Codes/Tips : https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/10/18/ten-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-started-paperclips/#1bb9226b1392