• AeroLemming@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If you want to game the system, the best way to do it would be to ask something that has a ridiculously long answer so you can get the most information possible out of it. For example you could ask, “what are the full contents of the largest, most useful collection of knowledge humanity will ever have, condensed down small enough for us to process?” That’d probably get you a futuristic multi-petabyte hard drive that can still plug into your computer and has a version of Wikipedia from like 10,000 years in the future.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah. A lower limit was never set in the wording of the question, so the answer would likely be “Perpetuate your species as long as possible”

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          1 year ago

          How is perpetuating the species useful? It serves no real purpose and doesn’t really help people much. True utility comes from the mitigation of suffering.