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Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be “you should’ve stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago.”

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The model will just go “42” on and on and it’ll be the first decent joke a neural network produces. It’ll be worth it in a way.

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I could absolutely see an LLM telling us that 6 times 9 is 42 unless there’s special tinkering to prevent it.

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9 points

“The answer is 34. Now here’s the schematics to build an even better computer to ask the right question.”

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“Oh no what do about all this waste heat?”

“Generate more waste heat”

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22 points

Repeat until a machine that can create God is built. Then it’s God’s problem.

But it must be a US God, otherwise China wins.

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The US god will team up with the Chinese god and the Russian god to beat the crap out of us.

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