An idea for a science fiction story: humanity has had a cataclysmic event that destroyed nearly all society.

  • An idea for a science fiction story: humanity has had a cataclysmic event that destroyed nearly all society.
    • But there's a big, mysterious pyramid building covered in shiny black tile.
    • If you go into the inner sanctum and ask a question, a mysterious oracle voice will answer it.
    • The oracle knows just about everything, including the arcane details to seemingly alien technology.
    • In this way the society can access the wisdom of the ancestors.
    • But you have to know the right questions to draw the most useful knowledge out of it.
    • What is the pyramid?
    • A server farm enclosed in a sealed box to protect it, powered by solar energy, running an LLM.
    • The ruined society doesn't (yet) know how to build a way to run LLMs themselves.
      • That would require millions of specialists with knowhow to produce all the inputs necessary to build chips and servers and program them, etc.
    • But if you could package up our current technology into a self-sufficient black box, you could have a kind of "seedbank" of human civilization that could survive almost any cataclysm.

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