Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

I only want power so I can get books.