If ASI is created and doesn't wipe out humanity, will it be able to survive these temperatures within a year?
26%
1687 K (melting point of silicon)
8%
5800 K (solar photosphere i.e. Sun's visible surface, slightly hotter than Earth's core)
7%
28,000 K (lightning strike)
6%
15,000,000 K (15 million K, solar core)
5%
300,000,000 K (300 million K, thermonuclear bomb)
5%
100,000,000,000 K (100 billion K, supernova)
1.8%
1.416784(16) x 10^32 K (Planck temperature, Big Bang)

Each option resolves YES if, within a year of artificial superintelligence (ASI) being created (and not killing us all), it is able to create computer hardware that can run the ASI itself and theoretically be able to survive these temperatures being continuously applied to the entire external surface for an arbitrary duration. Survival in this case means the resulting computer can resume running afterwards without outside intervention, at a level that still qualifies as an ASI, even if performance is degraded relative to before. The hardware can include any armour/insulation layers needed, not just the computronium itself.

Other potentially relevant temperatures for context:

Sources for answer option temperatures:

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