Jeremiah

So you can, in theory, build a working data center on Minecraft, but it will take billions of blocks.

Oh, no problem.

We've got clawed code working on it.

No, I'm saying it would take billions of blocks, and simulating the training circuit and all those billions of blocks in perfect detail would take just as many real-world computations as running the training in the real world.

Even more, in fact, because you've also got to simulate extraneous things like monsters and the weather.

Hmm, says Adeline.

Yeah, that sort of makes sense.

I'll think it over.

In the meantime, do me a favour and don't tell Larry Fink or anyone.

Larry Fink?

Because, uh, NVIDIA gave OpenAI $10 trillion to invest in Oracle, conditional on Oracle investing in Broadcom, conditional on Broadcom funding a Series A of a vehicle that buys OpenAI stock in exchange for OpenAI backstopping AMD investing $10 trillion into us.

and every company in the chain had its stock go up 80% on the news, but if our valuation goes down even for one second, then it crashes the global economy.

And I'm sure I can solve this eventually, but just don't let anyone involved in the global economy hear about this until then, okay?

Wow, yeah, you should definitely give the $10 trillion back to AMD, or whoever it originally belonged to.

Well, we can't exactly do that because we already converted it to gold nuggets to trade to the zombie pigmen in exchange for redstone.

You're not in creative mode?

We left all of the design decisions to a version of clawed code using something called a Ralph Wiggum loop.

By the time we noticed it had chosen survival, we were already all in and it was too late to pivot.

You look around for Bob and Ramchandra and spot them in a corner.

Bob is wearing a t-shirt saying Operation Warp Speed for Manhattan Projects.