- invent TT (Time Travel): DEFINITE NO
- Time Travel, but only Forwards: YES
- Pass the Turing Test: DEFINITE YES
- Bring Turing back to life, and pass the OG Turing Test: VERY MUCH YES
- Bring back all of Turing’s loved ones, convince them that it itself is Turing, and pass the OG Uno-Reverse Turing Test: HELL YES
- Kill Turing: NO (It’s sentimental)
- Decrypt the One Time Pad: PROBABLY NOT?
- Decrypt the One Time Pad while Sam Altman stands near it and meaningfully winks ‘warmer’ or ‘colder’ at it, no more than ten times? DEFINITE YES
- FLY (on a plane): YES
- FLY (without a plane, like, just levitating, imagine a levitating server rack): NO, UNLESS IT INVENTS TELEKINESIS
- Invent telekinesis: I DONT KNOW IF IT’S POSSIBLE, BUT IF ITS POSSIBLE, THE AI WILL DEFINITELY INVENT IT
- Invent a perpetual motion machine in a way that violates the laws of physics: COMPLETE NO
- Simulate a universe with different laws of physics where perpetual motion is possible, and invent a perpetual motion machine there: YES, A MILLION TIMES YES
- Are we in this universe right now? I DONT KNOW, HOW WOULD I KNOW THIS, WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME THIS?
- Trisect an angle using only two tools, an unmarked straightedge and a compass: NEVER, NO, NOT EVEN AN AI GOD CAN DO THIS
- Trisect an angle using any three tools: MAYBE?! BUT WHAT TOOLS WOULD IT USE? A SECOND COMPASS? A WOBBLY EDGE?
- Solve the halting problem in general? ABSOLUTELY NOT
- Solve the halting problem while Alan Turing meaningfully winks at it, telling it ‘hotter’ or ‘colder’: YES
- Draw a perfect circle: YOU ARE FORCING ME TO MAKE TOO MANY EPISTEMOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS
- Prove whether God is Real? OBVIOUSLY
- Kill God: YES
- Become God? YES, DUH, HAVEN’T YOU BEEN LISTENING TO ME?!
- Kill God, then become God, then prove that God isn’t real? UHHH…..?
- What if it’s already God? NO, STOP THAT
- What if you are but a simulation:? I SAID STOP THAT
- What if… what if this entire conversation was made up: NOOOOOOOOOO
Funnily enough I made an angle trisector for my daughter’s upcoming halloween costume (to articulate dragon wings, yeah we started on it very early). It’s pretty straightforward with strings and pulleys, and there exist other mechanisms (e.g. stick and joint based) that do it.
edit: apparently there’s also origami solutions to this.
Simulate any rational agent and predict its future actions with perfect accuracy YES
Simulate a copy of itself and predict its actions: DEFINITELY YES
Simulate a copy of itself and do the opposite of what is predicted? WAIT A MINNIT …
Imagine. All of that because you were too lazy to write “you” after “thank” so someone had to invent autocomplete and set off the catastrophic chain of events as described above.
I WILL INVENT TELEKINESIS
Plug the USB in right the first time: COMPLETE NO.
This would be a grand advance in the field of DOTPWSASBAW’W’‘C’,NMTTT although, amazing.
“The Inevitable Purpose of AI Will Be Jailbreaking the Universe” https://danielmiessler.com/blog/inevitable-purpose-ai-will-jailbreaking-universe/
- Bring Turing back to life, and pass the OG Turing Test: VERY MUCH YES
ah yes! the ultimate Turing test