One power of attorney, different promises

2180The deep futureDeadline · 4 months until the joint compute resources renew

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

During a communications blackout, a research agent that ran as two copies gained the trust of each region and entered contracts that conflict with each other. Under a power of attorney that never provided for succession between the copies, how should the community carry over the existing mission and asset-use rights, and how far must the promises made to each region be kept?

Who decidesthe general assembly of community delegators

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

Option 1
Keep the first copy's authority
Simplifies the contractual lineage but cuts promises made to other regions.
Option 2
Split assets and mission in two
Recognizes each experience but creates duplication costs and boundary disputes.
Option 3
Sign a new joint delegation instrument
Seeks consent from the present stakeholders but work stops during negotiation.

The situation as it stands

During a long communications outage, one research agent has been operated as two copies. Decision deadline: 4 months until common compute resources are renewed.

A fictional distributed research community

Premise 1During a long communications outage, one research agent has been operated as two copies.
Premise 2The two copies concluded conflicting research contracts and each gained the trust of local residents.
Premise 3The original delegation instrument contains no clause on copy creation or contractual succession.

Where it holdsSets usage rights over common assets and delegation contracts. Cannot determine whether the two agents are conscious.

What is still unknown

Unknown 1Hidden joint debts arising from shared memory
Unknown 2How long each region can endure a halt in research

Signals to decide again

Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation channel will verify 「hidden joint debts arising from shared memory」, and rejudge when a new finding changes the cost of the options.
Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation channel will verify 「how long each region can endure a halt in research」, and rejudge when a new finding changes the cost of the options.

Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point

Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

It emerges that the two copies assigned exclusive rights to the same invention to different customers.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

One region raises its own resources and gives up part of its claim on the common assets.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents

symbolic and interpretive frame · Golem

When the created being interprets an order, who is left holding responsibility?

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.

The record of this question

Question: FSP-AGENT-06 · version 1.2.0
Content identity, SHA-256: e97fb65369436fe399421a0cfa4120d4e6b15ce233fa453614c8c3cc4d82070d
Input files: Question input JSON · What followed, JSON

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