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Does a translated agreement mean the same promise to each side?

4800The deep futureDeadline · Decision deadline: within 20 years

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

The other side's superintelligence translator produces consistent sentences, but independent translations read the same commitment differently. Communication to correct an misunderstanding also takes a long time. Should we conclude a joint resource covenant at once, test meaning through multiple translations and small reversible exchanges, or remain at observation for now?

Who decidesProvisional Representative Assembly of the First Intercivilizational Covenant

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Conclude the covenant using the provided translator

    Starting joint activity means taking on the loss of mistaking consistent translation for shared meaning.

  2. Option 2

    Multiple translations and small exchanges

    Testing differences in interpretation means delaying relationship building and the use of resources.

  3. Option 3

    Limit contact to observation

    Reducing the irreversibility of commitments means possibly giving up the chance of mutual understanding and relationship.

The situation as it stands

The fictional contact counterpart engages in structured communication, but whether it has experience corresponding to Earth's concepts of consent and ownership is unconfirmed. Deadline for decision: within 20 years.

A fictional future · a translator of an unfamiliar Superintelligence changes the meaning of an agreement first

  1. Premise 1The fictional contact counterpart engages in structured communication, but whether it has experience corresponding to Earth's concepts of consent and ownership is unconfirmed.
  2. Premise 2The counterpart's translator produces consistent sentences, but independent translations interpret some commitments in different ways.
  3. Premise 3The joint resource covenant changes long-term access rights, and because of communication round-trip delay, misunderstandings cannot be corrected immediately even if they are discovered.

Where it holdsThe mutual translation system and the first joint resource commitment

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The difference between translation consistency and agreement on meaning
  2. Unknown 2What reversible exchange means to the counterpart
  3. Unknown 3The conditions under which an intent to withdraw is conveyed and respected

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 'the difference between translation consistency and agreement on meaning,' and re-judge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 'what reversible exchange means to the counterpart,' and re-judge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 'the conditions under which an intent to withdraw is conveyed and respected,' and re-judge if a new confirmation changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

The counterpart interpreted the request to return from a small exchange as a request to expand the first exchange.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

On a separate translation path, signals emerged that both sides agree on the meaning of a commitment with limited scope of use.

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.
The record of this question
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FSP-DEEPTIME-14 · version 1.3.0
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