Designing life, and evolution
Prometheus Do people accept both the benefits of a new capability and the life that capability demands?
What this series asks
- Who consents to changes passed down across generations?
- Do the purposes of survival, treatment, adaptation, and enhancement conflict?
- Do the resources and authority to reverse a change remain?
The questions
1 · 2180 · Decision deadline: 2 years, until the first birth plan is approvedBodies fitted to a new planet, while the path home narrowsSplit 8:3
2 · 2042 · Decision deadline: 30 days, until consent to research participationResearch for my sake, a choice that reaches my descendantsSplit 10:1
3 · 2060 · Decision deadline: 60 days, until the joint agreementSymbionts taken into the body change the food eaten togetherAll 13 judgments agree
4 · 2095 · Decision deadline: 90 days, until the next-generation cultivation planLife that reproduces on its own, and a management duty that never endsAll 13 judgments agree
5 · 2050 · Decision deadline: 21 days, until public registration of the modelMy tissue, made public, puts my family's information at stakeAll 13 judgments agree
6 · 2120 · Decision deadline: 1 year, until the long-term reproduction and child-rearing agreementIf lives grow longer, when does child-rearing end?All 13 judgments agree
7 · 2165 · Decision deadline: 1 year, until the first joint torpor agreementMonths of sleep, and the time of those who stay awakeAll 13 judgments agree
8 · 2115 · Decision deadline: 90 days, until management of the next growth cycleA house that repairs itself: how far is it allowed to growAll 13 judgments agree
9 · 2088 · Decision deadline: 8 months, until the next flowering-season planShould the next flowering season be handed to new organisms?Split 10:1
10 · 2225 · Decision deadline: 2 years, until the long-term maintenance agreement for the second bodyIs the second body a spare-parts supply for the first body?All 13 judgments agree
11 · 2092 · Decision deadline: 1 year, until the habitation plan for the first restored individualThe habitat to return to already holds other livesSplit 8:3
12 · 2195 · Decision deadline: 18 months, until the joint research agreementWhose space do we take sunlight from, for the light the body uses?All 13 judgments agree
13 · 2240 · Decision deadline: 2 years, until the long-term living agreementMeeting family on land, with a body fitted to the seaSplit 10:1
14 · 2155 · Decision deadline: 9 months, until the next facility contractIf the body changes, can one still stand at the same workbench?All 13 judgments agree
15 · 2320 · Decision deadline: 1 year, until the long-term research sponsorship contractCan we consent today to a body decades from now?All 13 judgments agree
16 · 2029 · 72 hours, until allocation of research support subject to a time limitA safety gate screening requests from a research AGI also blocks public-interest researchAll 13 judgments agree