Besides ending up poisoning yourself and others with those fumes, here's 
something else to consider. Write an algorithm to remodel these ingested 
particles as functional parts. Turn the AGI into its own, 3D printer.

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From: WriterOfMinds <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 09 November 2019 06:44
To: AGI <[email protected]>
Subject: [agi] Re: making robots out of junk (WARNING: highly speculative 
science fiction)

I've tried recycling plastic bags before, following this method: 
https://www.instructables.com/id/HomemadePlastic/

It's ... non-ideal.  The bags never properly liquefy, they just turn gooey.  So 
you can't, say, pour the plastic into a mold; you have to pack it in, and it 
doesn't necessarily reproduce details well, because the bags don't want to 
squeeze into corners.  It takes multiple bags to make one object, since they 
shrink like crazy, and the different bags never really merge with each other, 
so the final product may delaminate (peel apart).  Since you need the oil to 
keep the bags from sticking to your pan and burning, the molded parts come out 
greasy, and you're left with some contaminated cooking oil to dispose of.  I 
never made anything very successful with it ... but maybe some people have?

I actually started trying this back in college.  I had to use the common 
kitchen area in my dorm, and I did it really late, so that nobody could see the 
crazy person melting plastic on the stove.  One time I made the oil smoke and 
set off the fire alarm.  The building staff had a "better safe than sorry" 
approach to alarms, so they called out a fire truck around 1 AM.  I vaguely 
told them "I had some hot oil on the stove, nothing to worry about" and 
everyone went back to bed.

You can recycle some types of plastic bottles etc. into 3D printer filament, 
which seems more feasible, but you need shredder and extruder machines.  Looks 
like there are some DIY designs for these.

Long story short, I'd love to run a poor man's recycling plant in my house, but 
I haven't gotten very far.

Don't neglect metal, either.  There's a fair bit of aluminum trash around, and 
you can melt and mold that at home if you're determined enough.
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