If AI wipes out humanity, what will it make of the universe?
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5%
Paperclips or widgets
21%
Orgasmium
2%
Literal rats on literal heroin
3%
non-hedonic utilitronium
3%
Matrioshka brains to simulate torture of everyone who didn't help create it
6%
Matrioshka brains to simulate zillions of ems
1%
Wait till carbon white dwarfs cool enough to turn to diamond and then cut them into cool shapes
10%
initiate vacuum collapse
23%
Other "loud" outcome
26%
It will be "quiet" and not significantly alter the rest of the universe.

Not mutually exclusive, can resolve PROB to multiple.

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bought Ṁ26 of initiate vacuum coll... NO

grid-style ion drives would destroy themselves pretty quickly at 200KeV energy levels, and assuming helium fuel instead of xenon, the rest mass is 3727 MeV, so that's an isp of only circa sqrt(200KeV/3727MeV)c = 0.007c

Assuming they solve that with some other kind of ion drive, shooting fission products out the back, it would still have a wall plug efficiency <80%, and the underlying fission power source (assuming fusion is impossible) would be <50% efficient at producing electricity, so you get an isp of like sqrt(0.8*0.5*200MeV/(238amu*c^2))c = 0.019c and probably a large non-propellant mass on the vessel. With 99% fuel you're only getting up to 8.7% of the speed of light and there's no significant time dilation. Interstellar travel is probably unavoidably terribly slow, which provides a big defender's advantage, so an expansionist AI would get stopped by other AIs.