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Comment author: Alex_Altair 20 June 2012 08:06:35PM 0 points [-]

The only counterexample I can think of is where the computation invents cures or writes symphonies and, in the course of computation, indifferently disposes of them. This could be considered a large negative consequence of "mere" computation, but yeah, not really.