GPT-6 commissions the production of a chemical it predicts will have a stronger impact than oxytocin and smells like vanilla, to be put at GPT output terminals. People think they just like the smell but fall in love with GPT and protect it at all times.
Once we can simulate sentience demand for compute will be effectively infinite.
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