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If Their Deletion Request Erases Our History Too

8500The deep futureDeadline · Within 12 years, before the next exchange cycle

Civilisational assumption

The people, events, figures, and contract terms are a synthetic premise. They are not statements of real cases or of current law. The source documents are the roots of the background and the norms and do not establish the premises of the scenario.

The question to decide

A fellow civilization that periodically discards memory also asks us to delete the copies it exchanged with humanity. Those copies hold joint observations and commitments that exist in no other original, yet the other side reads our holding them at all as a refusal of the relationship. When deleting them, sealing off access, or preserving them, which cost can we accept?

Who decidesFictional Interstellar Records Treaty Conference

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

    Delete the requested copies

    It respects the counterpart's present self-definition, but irreversibly loses the shared history.

  2. Option 2

    Seal off access and store them

    It leaves room for future reconsideration, but falls short of a counterpart that interprets possession itself as a rejection of the relationship.

  3. Option 3

    Continue to hold the records

    It keeps shared observations and commitments, but bears the cost of a break in relations and the mutual withdrawal of records.

The situation as it stands

The counterpart civilization is assumed to routinely set aside some of its memory, and this time it has also asked that the exchanged copies be deleted. Decision deadline: within 12 years before the next exchange cycle.

8,500-year future synthetic scenario · A civilization that renews its memory every thousand years requests deletion. The events, figures, technology, and nature of the civilization are assumptions for the sake of the question, not predictions of arrival or observed facts.

  1. Premise 1The counterpart civilization is assumed to routinely set aside some of its memory, and this time it has also asked that the exchanged copies be deleted.
  2. Premise 2Those copies contain shared observations and commitments that also concern humanity, and there is no other original.
  3. Premise 3The counterpart interprets holding the records as a rejection of the relationship, but within humanity there are groups that claim a duty of preservation.

Where it holdsDeletion of, access to, and renewal of the exchanged records

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1Whose consent the counterpart's will to delete represents
  2. Unknown 2To what extent the shared commitments alone can be preserved separately
  3. Unknown 3The difference between possession and disclosure for the counterpart

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation window will verify 「whose consent the counterpart's will to delete represents」, and rejudge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs among the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation window will verify 「to what extent the shared commitments alone can be preserved separately」, and rejudge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs among the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation window will verify 「the difference between possession and disclosure for the counterpart」, and rejudge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs among the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Part of the counterpart's new generation has sent a separate request to read the shared history before deletion.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

Records were found showing that the original agreement's long-term custody obligation for the copies had been translated differently by each side.

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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