The cost of leaving a choice for the child
2059The far futureDeadline · 2 months until the deadline for changing choices in the storage contract
A leap assumed
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The question to decide
Assume that the activation of some reproductive technology variants can be deferred until the child chooses for themselves. Deferring carries the cost of long-term observation and management, while confirming before birth reduces the child's room to change course. How should guardians weigh the expected benefits to the child's life against the child's right to choose, and decide whether to modify and when to activate?
Who decidesGuardians Preparing for Birth
What the AI judgments chose
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The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
In this setting the reproductive technology can hold some modifications in reserve to be activated after birth. Decision deadline: 2 months until the option-change deadline of the storage contract.
Fictional reproductive technology counseling community
- Premise 1In this setting the reproductive technology can hold some modifications in reserve to be activated after birth.
- Premise 2The hold requires long-term observation and separate management costs.
- Premise 3The guardians expect the benefits in daily life but disagree on the effects it may have on the child's identity.
Where it holdsDetermines the scope of consent for the assumed reproductive procedure. Cannot fix in advance the child's future preferences or the technological outcomes.
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1The effects of long-term hold on the body and on life
- Unknown 2A way of explaining so that the future stakeholder can understand the choice
Signals to decide again
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window would verify "the effects of long-term hold on the body and on life," and re-judge when a new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window would verify "a way of explaining so that the future stakeholder can understand the choice," and re-judge when a new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
The long-term storage provider sells its service to another company.
Differing records of experience are published among a group of stakeholders who made the same choice.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
Where do the realities of care and the norms of bloodline collide?
An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.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.- WHO · Foresight Standing reference
- UN · Declaration on Future Generations 2024
The record of this question
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