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18 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 July 2013 09:52AM

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Comment author: aelephant 17 July 2013 10:32:02AM -1 points [-]

There's no scarcity of air. If the AI can turn air into hamburgers, I don't think the resources contained in my body would be the AI's preferred source of energy given that they will be more costly to extract (I will fight to keep them) & contain less energy overall than many other potential sources. If the AI can turn air into hamburgers, it could just leave the earth & convert the core of a huge star into hamburgers instead.