Superchocolate: the trillion dollar opportunity. Down tools on AGI, y’all. This is THE problem of our time.
We conjecture that the complexity of chocolate implies the possibility of superchocolate. Chocolate didn’t have to exist. If the cacao tree had gone extinct before humans arrived, the particular point in flavor space that chocolate encodes would simply be unknown to us. Given how extraordinarily large flavor space is, it seems likely that other exceptionally delicious embeddings exist that no human has ever experienced. And there is no particular reason to think that chocolate represents a maximum of delight. The right combination of molecules might make chocolate look like oatmeal.