What is the two element set where the first element is the best possible question I could ask and the second element is the answer to that question?
I think you would break the machine or deity or whatever with that question xd
What are next weeks lottery numbers?
Does knowing the numbers actually help? Don’t you have to then go find the correct ticket?
No you can either select the numbers manually or have them chosen randomly.
Might get stuck with a small payout.
“What are the winning numbers for the next lottery drawing with a payout of over $500 million?”
Why stop there? 1 billion please. It reaches this like 1 to 2 times a year now.
Edit: just for clarification that becomes 477 million lump sum after taxes.
As I pondered at what I could possibly ask, I blurted out “Do I get time to think about this or do I have to ask it like… right now?”
OH SHIT FUCK I DIDN’T MEAN TO ASK…
“It doesn’t matter anymore, now you don’t.”
And with that, I realized… I FUCKED UP…
:+
do all non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function have the form 0.5+xi, and why or why not
The ‘why or why not’ makes it 2 questions.
fuck yes, mine too
Does P = NP?
You have to ask for the proof otherwise noone will believe you
I imagine getting a yes answer would be enough to cause quite a bit of chaos lol. it would almost be more fun watching people squirm to figure it out.
Also, if the answer is guaranteed to be correct, it would be silly to not believe it…
I don’t usually see people considering the possibility that P = NP but it is a large polynomial conversion. If it’s x^64 or something then a 256 bit AES key would baloon to 2^(8*64) = 2^(512) which is still massive.
What is the most cost effective and realistic way to reverse climate change back to an early 1800s climate and maintain it there indefinitely?
“Plague.”
Then you know what to do and get even more frustrated seeing governments all over the world ignore your advice.
That’s why I said cost effective, so it could be a grass roots movement without the need of a government if needed. Though I am sure many would be all for it since climate change will wreck their country and the knowledge alone could be implemented at any time as things get more and more desperate.
Hint: it’s not because of costs that they won’t let you do it.
How can humanity survive the coming climate apocalypse?
What is the text of a json file containing every private key used for encryption and its associated context, sorted by political and financial value?
When was the last time my father carried me on his shoulders?
When will I die.
In the future
What is the question-answer pair that would be most-advantageous to me?
Why not ask for the next 1000 too?
Easy: How does subjective conscious experience arise from physical processes in the brain?
somebody will argue that consciousness was there first and the whole body + brain is actually kind of a dream …
(not how i view it though. i have a different answer)
my answer is that consciousness does not emanate from the brain at all, but from the fact that we are alive. in other words, i believe that consciousness is a property that many or all forms of life have evolved to have because/as long as it is advantageous to them. this view is called “existentialism” btw. things derive from the fact that we exist (as living beings).
“It’s complicated.”
Where is the nearest intelligent life outside the solar system?
I’d rephrase and ask "where is the most similarly advanced - relative to humans- intelligent life outside the solar system.
I wanna weed out all the low hanging fruit and find folks we might have a chance of talking to at some point.
At that point, why go for ‘similarly advanced’? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to target intelligent life that has far outdone our own technologies?
We would probably have a better chance at real communication with them too
Nah, then they could murder us… It’s safer to find one just advanced enough but not too advanced…
The Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.
Oh, that’s a biggie. Can I think about it?
As long as you like but it’s not valuable anymore.
What is the full content of the Epstein files?
(Hope you don’t mind if I’m recording you while you give the answer…)
