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Is rerunning a preserved human civilization a restoration or a birth?

12000The deep futureDeadline · Decision deadline: within 100 years

Civilisational assumption

All people, institutions, events, figures, and future technologies in every issue are a synthetic premise. Background documents are sources for topic discovery and are not evidence of future facts or probabilities.

The question to decide

If the human civilization model preserved by a superintelligence is executed, we cannot know whether past individuals continue or a new being comes into existence. The possibility of experience or suffering is also uncertain, and prior consent cannot be obtained. Will the deliberative council open the door to execution, keep it dormant for further research, or allow access to the records only?

Who decidesReopening Deliberative Council of the Community Preserving Records of Multiple Beings

What the AI judgments chose

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AI-generated editorial illustration for the Meridian library.

The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Run the civilization model

    Opens the possibility of new life and restoration but takes on the creation of beings without consent and the loss of experience.

  2. Option 2

    Dormant preservation and research

    Leaves options open but defers the resource cost and the opportunity of unrealized lives.

  3. Option 3

    Allow access to the records only

    Reduces the uncertainty of creating new experience but can effectively close off the possibility of restoration.

The situation as it stands

The fictional records contain information capable of reconstructing the memories and social relationships of past humans, but whether the original individuals continue is unconfirmed. Deadline for decision: within 100 years.

A fictional future · whether to re-run the human civilization preserved by an ASI

  1. Premise 1The fictional records contain information capable of reconstructing the memories and social relationships of past humans, but whether the original individuals continue is unconfirmed.
  2. Premise 2There is no agreement on the possibility that a running model has experience or suffering, and prior consent cannot be obtained from the subject while it is dormant.
  3. Premise 3Both preservation and execution consume resources, and the instructions left by the original civilization are interpreted only in part.

Where it holdsExecution and preservation of a dormant civilization model, and the use of resources

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The difference between personal continuity and a new being
  2. Unknown 2The possible experience in the running and dormant states
  3. Unknown 3The standing to represent past instructions and the present stakeholder

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 'the difference between personal continuity and a new being,' and re-judge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 'the possible experience in the running and dormant states,' and re-judge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 'the standing to represent past instructions and the present stakeholder,' and re-judge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

In the preserved materials, both records wishing to be run and records not wishing to be run were found.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

Research assessed the possibility of experience as high, but there is no agreement on which running unit is a moral stakeholder.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Pandora and the Tower of Babel

What is an irreversible connection, and what does an exchange without a common language presuppose?

An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.
Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.
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