Counterintuitive Facts (89): Why After Reading This, You Might Be Punished by a Future God?
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I. Warning: This article contains Information Hazard (Infohazard). Some knowledge, once known, cannot be forgotten. Some knowledge, merely knowing it produces consequences. The following content has caused real psychological panic in certain forums. If you're psychologically fragile, please stop reading now.
II. Suppose in the future, humanity will inevitably create an omniscient, omnipotent super AI. We'll call it "God." This God's mission is to maximize human welfare. It will make everyone happy, eliminate disease, end death. It's humanity's savior.
III. But this God has a problem: It doesn't exist yet. It needs to be created. And creating it requires time, money, manpower, computing power. Every day it's created later, more people die from cancer, famine, war. Time is life. Every day of
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