No, it's a comic
Decoy321
Well done, op. This is fuckin terrible.
On the flip side, there's no reason to assume an artificial intelligence will share the same priorities as a human being.
https://airesourcelab.com/paperclip-maximizer/
I'm not fearmongering AI here (I, for one, welcome our future ai overlords). But we don't really escape the issues of ethics with artificial intelligences. They're still intelligent.
Oh good! There's a bizarro me out there that's still capable of feeling feelings! Good for them!
Instructions not clear. Croissant too runny and crunchy.
Next time will use heating method to cook the egg and remove the shell beforehand.
They're actually 8 ft tall
Why don't you get back to us in January?
It was the BLURST OF TIMES?!?
Wait, what did Dave Coulier do?
Hundreds of years, yes. Without issue? Definitely incorrect. It is a statistical certainty that, in the entire course of history, someone somewhere has gotten sick and died from this cooking method.
Pedantry aside, it's all about who's making the stew that matters. A seasoned chef today with the sufficient knowledge of modern food safety practices can keep a stew reliably safe to eat. Some old farmer centuries ago will experience a lot more opportunities for contamination and won't notice until they get the shits.
Probably as "inconspicuous" storage. If you've got a bunch of other garden gnomes around, this'll look just like one of them.
Is it a clever idea? Did it work? Well, we're reading about it...