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Comment author: DataPacRat 24 May 2013 11:48:52PM 0 points [-]

A cleaner question would compare a paperclipper with a sterile universe.

I really wanted to ask that question, but I'm not actually very confident in my estimate of how sterile our own universe is, over the long term, so I'm afraid that I waffled a bit.