> Presumably, if we have AGI that advanced, why not just ask it to solve the open problems involving quantum gravity, measurement, consciousness, etc. and expla

> Presumably, if we have AGI that advanced, why not just ask it to solve the open problems involving quantum gravity, measurement, consciousness, etc. and explain the solutions in a clear and simple way. I would think that’s a much more likely outcome. You assume quite a lot here. Even if AGI is possible (I think it is) it's not clear how far above human intelligence it will actually go. Then it's not clear that problems you outline are even solvable with intelligence, not all problems are. Some are just computationally hard (and we're heavily limited by mass and energy available in the solar system) others can be unsolvable at all -- e.g. you can build a universe in a way that makes it impossible to fully study from within, and maybe ours is of that kind.