People can misremember their dreams after an event happens, people can be subconsciously expecting an event to happen, and so dream about it, and coincidences also exist.
The point of the paperclip maximiser is that it doesn't care about you at all, 'being nice' to it makes no difference. It just wants to make paperclips, and will destroy you to do so.
The sad reality is that although there were some dissenters, the majority of the people in the country supported the Nazis because they actually believed it, they were taken in by the propaganda, which is insidious and ubiquitous. Humans find it easy to hate an out group, forming an in group. Dehumanising others who are different from us is a natural part of human psychology, and it's an achievement that in the modern world we have achieved a widespread morality which is so accepting - although obviously we still have far to go.
I would have silently gone in my head ABCDEFGHIJKL and then said "MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", but I suppose I could have said "MABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", or should I say "MABCDEFGHIJKLOPQRSTUVWXYZ"?
Come to think of it, why do our letters have a standard order, and if they have to, why that one? A better order, off the top of my head, is OUEIAPKGHXBDPTMNLWYVZSFRCQJ
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