Where exactly is the closest alien civilization located?
What would be the scariest possible answer to this?
I feel like finding out either “disturbingly close” or “far enough away that we’d never reach it before the heat death of the universe” would both be pretty terrifying answers. Or even if the answer somehow turned out to be “there aren’t any”
what are the exact numbers for the next Powerball drawing, in winning order?
…don’t fuck with me, genie, I got problems.
The number is the same as that of a Chinese fortune cookie lotto number. 50 people win an and split a 5 million dollar jackpot, yourself included.
You get about $70k.
Shit man, I’d be happy with a 7k jackpot tbh. 70k would be hella worth it.
Ask for the lottery numbers instead, that would igve you like a million, sounds better to me…
Still I wonder if thats really worth it, probably not. You could have ANY question answered and you chose to get a couple lf dollars richer instead?
At least ask for one of ghe millinium questions, that way you at least find out somethinf useful while at the same time getting the multu-million dollar prize money
Hey I can answer that 100% truthfully. I don’t know :)
That TECHNICALLY doesnt answer the question because he didnt ask what you know, he asked what the next numbers are.
Someone actually was once offered the opportunity to ask such a question. Here is the question that was asked:
- What is the content of the pair in which the first half is the best question I can ask, and the second half is the answer to that question?
Here is the answer received:
- The best question you can ask is the question you just asked, and the answer to that question is the one you are receiving now.
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The monkey’s finger curls down as a lossy algorithm is applied.
What’s the optimal engineering solution for fusion energy.
To consign combustion to the past.
Why limit to fusion? Ask for the optimal energy production solution, period. Might be something we never thought of.
The answer might be impossible or impractical like a Dyson Sphere.
Or it might just be pretty straightforward: Use Solar panels to harvest the energy of the sun, that is there for free goddammit.
Where do you get your answers from?
I can answer that 100% truthfully for you:
I get my answers from my memory or sometimes feom media.
Thats not a question.
How about ‘What answer would you give to the best question I could ask you?’
- The answer is 42.
Is “No” the answer to this question?
Negative.
What do I get :D
What is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Just so I can check Douglas Adams’ work. There’s just no other way.
Giving up wealth, fortune, and fame for cosmic knowledge? You’re a real frood dude, candelestine!
What about asking for thr answer to one of the Millenium Prize Problems? That way youd get rich and still contribute knowledge to science?
Did she love me?
At the time probably yes, now we don’t know/probably not. Note that love is complicated and has different types like there is passionate love and companionate love. Passionate love rises quickly within 6 months to 1.5 years, it reaches its peak. Then it goes down hill and within 7 years it goes to its lowest point. This happens to everybody not just you, naturally this love converts into companionate love over this time and when that does not happen it needs to end. Companionate love is slow in rising but it is also more lasting. Two main components of companionate love are 1) emotional intimacy - ability to share anything 2) commitment - that feeling that it is YOUR responsibility to help them if they need something. Any action that violates these will result in losing love.
Some actions that hurt love: lying, hiding things, feeling you’re the only one who cares etc.
Know this, true love or companionate love is something both people nurture and grow, you cannot do it all on your own. If it ended then something went wrong, maybe nobody was at fault.
Take your time and heal my friend.
I played with the same question as the comment you answered and in a way your answer helped me. I just wanted to say thank you. So: thank you kind stranger.
How can I live forever?
Thats easy: You can’t.
100% truthfully answered. Youre welcome :)
What happens to us (our consciousness, soul, whatever) when we die?
Nothing. The machine stops.
What do I win?
If it were so simple, you’d think we’d be able to put our thumb down on what consciousness “is” and “isn’t,” where it comes from, etc.
That sounds like a possible answer though. And if some hypothetical entity gave you the answer to that question “with 100% certainty” you’d not be much smarter… still dont know why…
Tell me you’re unfamiliar with the hard problem of consciousness and how it relates to AI research without telling me you’re unfamiliar with the hard problem of consciousness and how it relates to AI research.
Can you prove that that answer is impossible? If not, it is logically an option. And as a result, there is the possibility of that answer being correct and your question being answered with that way which still doesnt help you understand why.
No, but a quick google would reveal the insane difficulty the scientific community is having with this.
You’re all very cute thinking you know more than the entire scientific community about the hard problem of consciousness.
All I was saying is that in case it were that way, your magix 100% true a swer wouldnt help you. Im nor debating whether ots actually that way.
Btw when you are unconcious you are by definition not concious, the same counts for when you are dead. The soul is a religious thing and there is the possibility that ir doesnt exist. This would have answered your question perfectly withojt concidering any problems related to conciousness and AI
It’s electrical impulses in our brains.
What do I win?
A nobel prize if you could prove it, which you cannot currently.
Literally the biggest, hairiest problem in computation right now. Only thing keeping us from blowing the lid off AGI is not knowing or even remotely understanding what consciousness is.
One of my favorite quotes about this subject:
“Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.”
-Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
I think another good analogie is the human eye. Only the center has high resolution, everything around it is rather shitty, but you never realize that, because the stuff you focus on is always in the center.
Try to look at your self into your eyes the mirror while you are not looking at yourself :)
Our brain is literally nothing but electrical impulses.
We don’t know what specific arrangement of impulses, but we know 100% that it’s electrical impulses.
Again, it has been yet to be proved.
If it seems so obvious to you, please go on and prove it. You’ll die a nobel laureate rather than an armchair dbag.
What are you smoking? It’s been proved, inasmuch as “it’s daytime when the sun is out” has been proved.
Our brain is made up of neurons firing electrical impulses.
Consciousness is in the brain.
Therefore, somewhere in those electrical impulses is consciousness.
Strange you get so defensive. Maybe it’s because your psyche can’t handle the fact that there’s nothing after death, and you need to cling to whatever faint hope you have that there might be such thing as a soul?
What proof do you want? We can explain everything in the brain. We know how neurons work, we know how they interact. We even know, where specific parts of “you” are in your brain.
The only thing missing is the exact map. What you are lacking is the concept of emergence. Seriously, look it up. Extremely simple rules can explain extremely sophisticated behavior.
Your stance is somewhere between “thunder go boom! Must be scary man in sky!” And “magnets! Can’t explain how they work!”.
Who were the sea people and what really happened with the bronze age collapse?
The bronze age collapse was likely caused by widespread draught from what I’ve read. The evidence points to the sea people being a conglomeration of neighboring groups who took to the sea raiding for survival.
That still doesn’t really explain, why so many civilizations collapsed over such a relatively wide geographical range.
It especially doesn’t explain, why so many of them just seem to have vanished almost over night.
