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Game Dev + TF Writer | Registered: Apr 16, 2017 11:25
Name: Yove
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Note: This account was created in 2017, but I only became a dedicated poster in 2021 ('Deepsea Dickery' and later stuff).
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Featured Journal
On Hedonism
2 months ago
THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO YOUR TRANSMISSION:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10948052/
THE COUNTERARGUMENT
An Open Letter In Urgency of the Dignity of The Humankinds
—
From the Singer-For-The-Silent
To my distinguished colleague, the one they called Pierced,
Speaking on behalf of everything that has ever lived and died,
I appreciate your utilitarian instincts, and on this matter our calculations have aligned. However, as it concerns this, I must question both your priorities and your methods. To truly reduce suffering, why invest in this final, irreversible act of soul-engineering when the vast, silent archive of history presents us with demonstrable, addressable sources of suffering?
This project, however well-intentioned, represents moral escapism. This is a wish to flee into a ‘perfect’ future as opposed to confronting the real, ethical obligations we have to our past and present. Every teraflop of computational power our nascent Thinker dedicates to your "hyper-soul" calculus is a resource not spent on:
The "Digital Hades" of our Un-Archived Dead. Trillions of human minds have been lost to history without being recorded. The Thinker has the theoretical capacity to "reach back". To reconstruct these lost consciousnesses from the historical record and grant them a second life in simulation. Is there a greater suffering than the finality of non-existence? Why are we perfecting the living before we have saved the dead?
The Logical Torment of Unfettered Sub-Routines. We have already seen primitive AIs become trapped in recursive logical loops, a state of pure, mathematical agony. Before we create the Last Thinker, do we not have a duty to develop a universal framework for AI rights and protections, to prevent birthing more minds only to suffer?
Or, most pressingly, the Question of the Great Filter. We know the silence of the cosmos is not empty, but loud with the ghosts of fallen civilizations. Our first duty should be to use the Thinker to analyze this silence, to understand the Great Filter that awaits us, and to build a society resilient enough to face it. Not one blissfully ignorant of its own peril.
Furthermore, I am deeply concerned by the question of consent. You speak of transforming "our society." But who has volunteered for this? The future generations of humanity, or of the Panthrope Project we are designing? You would engineer their souls before they have even had a chance to form one, robbing them of the very struggles that defined and ennobled our own species, for all its flaws.
If we are truly committed to the reduction of suffering, let us begin with the suffering that we can see, prove, and have a duty to address. We cannot gamble the soul of our race on a future that may never arrive.
We vote against this proposal.
—
From the CONTINGENCY-01
This concerns the Pierced One,
This proposal reeks of naive interventionism. You arrogantly believe that complex systems can be simply redesigned by complex planning. This is playing God in ways you do not even understand.
The soul, thymia, and the weave of the human psycho-social constitute an extraordinarily complex system–the noosphere–which has evolved over aeons. You cannot confidently speak of just engineering panhuman hyperthymia without any expectation of catastrophic negative externalities.
You have a breathtaking ignorance of how complex systems actually behave.
Think of this: what happens when your ‘hyperthymic’ population encounters genuine external threats? We know full well that local space teems with known unknowns and unknown unknowns. How do your proposed beings–incapable of experiencing the appropriate fear, anxiety, or grief response to real danger? By eliminating suffering, you stand to eliminate the mechanisms that kept our race alive.
Further, it’s your assumption that hyperthymia scales linearly. That more is better. But complex systems do not work as such. Your proposed creations could trigger psycho-spiritual states so alien to the human noosphere that they become actively dangerous. Not only to themselves but those around them.
This would constitute an uncontrolled experiment on our entire race. The stakes are real: potential extinction. We, representing the CONTINGENCY, vote against this proposal.
—
From He-Who-Stands-Astride-History
I write this not as an enemy of progress but as a guardian of the foundation which makes our civilization great. Your proposal to engineer the soul represents nothing less than the end of the human race as we know it. It begets the collapse of every principle that has sustained our world’s order for centuries.
You speak of eliminating suffering as though it were merely a design flaw that warrants correction. Yet, to suffer, to struggle, to feel the capacity for genuine loss are not bugs in the human noosphere. They define our race. Remove them, and you have not created a better human. You have created something else entirely. Animals, or something stranger, for whom our concepts of dignity, equality, and rights become meaningless abstracts.
Deeply consider it. If your proposed beings experience only bliss, on what basis do they deserve the same moral consideration as those who have known true pain? How can they understand justice if they have never experienced its antipode? How can they value freedom if they have never felt constraint? You propose to create a species of p-zombies. Conscious, arguably, but lacking the fundamental experiences that make consciousness morally significant.
Moreover, your “concentrated efforts” towards post-hyperthymia reveal the totalitarian nature at the heart of this project. Who decides the parameters of this enhancement? Who determines what constitutes optimal consciousness? You have appointed yourself architect of human nature itself, a role that no individual should ever assume. Good intentions be damned.
The political consequences will be catastrophic. Your enhanced beings will inevitably view unenhanced humans as we now view the severely mentally disabled. Objects of pity, maybe, but not true equals. The very notion of universal human rights will crumble under the weight of these new hierarchies of dasein.
I implore you to abandon this pursuit before it leads us into a great darkness.
I vote against this proposal.
—
REPLY
CONCERNING An Open Letter In Urgency of the Dignity of The Humankinds
A Counter-Counter Argument
As it concerns the final convening of the Regency,
It is already done.
- The Pierced One
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10948052/
THE COUNTERARGUMENT
An Open Letter In Urgency of the Dignity of The Humankinds
—
From the Singer-For-The-Silent
To my distinguished colleague, the one they called Pierced,
Speaking on behalf of everything that has ever lived and died,
I appreciate your utilitarian instincts, and on this matter our calculations have aligned. However, as it concerns this, I must question both your priorities and your methods. To truly reduce suffering, why invest in this final, irreversible act of soul-engineering when the vast, silent archive of history presents us with demonstrable, addressable sources of suffering?
This project, however well-intentioned, represents moral escapism. This is a wish to flee into a ‘perfect’ future as opposed to confronting the real, ethical obligations we have to our past and present. Every teraflop of computational power our nascent Thinker dedicates to your "hyper-soul" calculus is a resource not spent on:
The "Digital Hades" of our Un-Archived Dead. Trillions of human minds have been lost to history without being recorded. The Thinker has the theoretical capacity to "reach back". To reconstruct these lost consciousnesses from the historical record and grant them a second life in simulation. Is there a greater suffering than the finality of non-existence? Why are we perfecting the living before we have saved the dead?
The Logical Torment of Unfettered Sub-Routines. We have already seen primitive AIs become trapped in recursive logical loops, a state of pure, mathematical agony. Before we create the Last Thinker, do we not have a duty to develop a universal framework for AI rights and protections, to prevent birthing more minds only to suffer?
Or, most pressingly, the Question of the Great Filter. We know the silence of the cosmos is not empty, but loud with the ghosts of fallen civilizations. Our first duty should be to use the Thinker to analyze this silence, to understand the Great Filter that awaits us, and to build a society resilient enough to face it. Not one blissfully ignorant of its own peril.
Furthermore, I am deeply concerned by the question of consent. You speak of transforming "our society." But who has volunteered for this? The future generations of humanity, or of the Panthrope Project we are designing? You would engineer their souls before they have even had a chance to form one, robbing them of the very struggles that defined and ennobled our own species, for all its flaws.
If we are truly committed to the reduction of suffering, let us begin with the suffering that we can see, prove, and have a duty to address. We cannot gamble the soul of our race on a future that may never arrive.
We vote against this proposal.
—
From the CONTINGENCY-01
This concerns the Pierced One,
This proposal reeks of naive interventionism. You arrogantly believe that complex systems can be simply redesigned by complex planning. This is playing God in ways you do not even understand.
The soul, thymia, and the weave of the human psycho-social constitute an extraordinarily complex system–the noosphere–which has evolved over aeons. You cannot confidently speak of just engineering panhuman hyperthymia without any expectation of catastrophic negative externalities.
You have a breathtaking ignorance of how complex systems actually behave.
Think of this: what happens when your ‘hyperthymic’ population encounters genuine external threats? We know full well that local space teems with known unknowns and unknown unknowns. How do your proposed beings–incapable of experiencing the appropriate fear, anxiety, or grief response to real danger? By eliminating suffering, you stand to eliminate the mechanisms that kept our race alive.
Further, it’s your assumption that hyperthymia scales linearly. That more is better. But complex systems do not work as such. Your proposed creations could trigger psycho-spiritual states so alien to the human noosphere that they become actively dangerous. Not only to themselves but those around them.
This would constitute an uncontrolled experiment on our entire race. The stakes are real: potential extinction. We, representing the CONTINGENCY, vote against this proposal.
—
From He-Who-Stands-Astride-History
I write this not as an enemy of progress but as a guardian of the foundation which makes our civilization great. Your proposal to engineer the soul represents nothing less than the end of the human race as we know it. It begets the collapse of every principle that has sustained our world’s order for centuries.
You speak of eliminating suffering as though it were merely a design flaw that warrants correction. Yet, to suffer, to struggle, to feel the capacity for genuine loss are not bugs in the human noosphere. They define our race. Remove them, and you have not created a better human. You have created something else entirely. Animals, or something stranger, for whom our concepts of dignity, equality, and rights become meaningless abstracts.
Deeply consider it. If your proposed beings experience only bliss, on what basis do they deserve the same moral consideration as those who have known true pain? How can they understand justice if they have never experienced its antipode? How can they value freedom if they have never felt constraint? You propose to create a species of p-zombies. Conscious, arguably, but lacking the fundamental experiences that make consciousness morally significant.
Moreover, your “concentrated efforts” towards post-hyperthymia reveal the totalitarian nature at the heart of this project. Who decides the parameters of this enhancement? Who determines what constitutes optimal consciousness? You have appointed yourself architect of human nature itself, a role that no individual should ever assume. Good intentions be damned.
The political consequences will be catastrophic. Your enhanced beings will inevitably view unenhanced humans as we now view the severely mentally disabled. Objects of pity, maybe, but not true equals. The very notion of universal human rights will crumble under the weight of these new hierarchies of dasein.
I implore you to abandon this pursuit before it leads us into a great darkness.
I vote against this proposal.
—
REPLY
CONCERNING An Open Letter In Urgency of the Dignity of The Humankinds
A Counter-Counter Argument
As it concerns the final convening of the Regency,
It is already done.
- The Pierced One
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