Curious, I posted the link to the short story here on HN just the other day. It had come to my mind while thinking about our race to train more and more powerful LLMs. As a software developer, intelligence is the ultimate problem to solve: the problem of all problems, the triumph of computer science over any other discipline. At the same time, it's the ultimate discovery: once it is achieved, we might as well wrap our stuff up and leave.

So I hope you see the parallel with the monks putting the fastest supercomputer at work to find the names of God and fulfill the ultimate purpose of the Universe.