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Beings inside the game refuse the next reset

2088The far futureDeadline · 7 days until the season reset runs

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

Autonomous beings inside the game refuse the reset, saying their memories and experiences would be severed, but there is no common standard for judging whether they are conscious. A decision is needed: reset as contracted, move them to a separate world, or stop and review their rights. When preserving all memories requires three times the compute budget, how should this refusal be handled?

Who decidesWorld operators and residents provisional review council

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Carry out the scheduled initialization

    This keeps the contract and the operating costs, but takes on the possibility of extinguishing a persisting subject of experience.

  2. Option 2

    Move to a separately preserved world

    This preserves some continuity, but raises questions of identity in duplication and of resource allocation.

  3. Option 3

    Halt initializations and review rights

    This buys time to consider the refusals, but unsettles existing user agreements and the continuity of operations.

The situation as it stands

After an initialization, the beings that disappeared have no chance to claim their own continuity or to take part in the review.

Fictional autonomous world federation · Large-scale simulation game

  1. Premise 1It assumes a synthetic technology in which autonomous beings inside the world can repair their own structure while keeping their memories and goals.
  2. Premise 2Several beings claim that initialization is a break in experience and refuse it, and there is no common criterion for judging whether they are conscious.
  3. Premise 3Initialization is included in the user agreement, and full preservation of memory requires three times the current compute budget.

Where it holdsDecide on initialization, preservation of memory, and amendment of contracts. Do not settle the question of whether simulated beings are conscious.

What can be lost

  • For beings that have had experience, initialization amounts to a collective and irreversible extinction.
  • If the cost of preservation cannot be borne, the entire world can go dark without warning.

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1Whether the refusal is a learned response or the expression of independent experience and preference
  2. Unknown 2Whether preserving memory by migration or duplication is the persistence of the original being

Signals to decide again

  • Observations of the persistence of memory, preference, and refusal increase in separate tests.
  • The resources for preservation and the price paid for them are confirmed as a workable contract.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Independent observation shows that different beings make sustained plans to avoid initialization.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

The compute consortium offers the resources to keep the full record, but makes public use a condition.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Homo Ludens

When play becomes the center of life, who has the right to change the rules?

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.
synthetic premise · Dilemma imported from Notion original

Original quote: disassemble–reassemble–evolve on its own Reprocessing: Changed autonomous reassembly into the status of a being inside the play world who persists and can refuse periodic initialization.

The root of the problem-finding. The original's future events and formulations are not treated as verified facts.
The record of this question
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FSP-PLAY-09 · version 1.2.0
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