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Comment author: DanielLC 16 July 2013 07:44:13PM 0 points [-]

It is much more difficult for America to invade, say, Iraq, and build the necessary infrastructure or whatever it needs for Iraq to become another America then it is for an AI to kill you and use your resources to make another AI.

If we could easily turn Iraq into another America, Iraq would have done it already. As great as it is to be the dictator of a third world country, it's much better to be the dictator of a developed country.