Who receives the price of the last rite
5300The deep futureDeadline · Within 15 years, before the first trade agreement
Civilisational assumption
The people, events, figures, and contract terms are a synthetic premise. They are not statements of real cases or of current law. The source documents are the roots of the background and the norms and do not establish the premises of the scenario.
The question to decide
Offering the last performance of a non-replicable rite as the price of trade benefits many settlements, but the share going to the community that kept the rite is small, and opinion inside it is divided. On what basis should the representative conference decide to accept this exchange, negotiate a different price, or refuse the trade?
Who decidesFictional Civilization Exchange Representative Conference
What the AI judgments chose
Reading the judgment record…
The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
The counterpart is assumed to want a single shared experience of a specific rite rather than material resources. Decision deadline: within 15 years, by the first trade agreement.
Synthetic scenario set in the year 5300 · The price of trade is the last performance of a rite that cannot be replicated. The events, figures, technologies, and nature of the civilizations are assumptions for the question, not predictions of what is to come or observed facts.
- Premise 1The counterpart is assumed to want a single shared experience of a specific rite rather than material resources.
- Premise 2The minority community that maintains the rite is divided over whether to make it an object of trade.
- Premise 3The traded resources benefit many human settlements, but the share received directly by the rite community is small.
Where it holdsConditions for the public display, replication, and exchange of a communal rite
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1The party that holds the authority to offer the rite
- Unknown 2The loss to members who do not participate
- Unknown 3The counterpart's actual interests that could be met by another object of exchange
Signals to decide again
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can verify 「the party that holds the authority to offer the rite」, and render a fresh judgment if the new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can verify 「the loss to members who do not participate」, and render a fresh judgment if the new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can verify 「the counterpart's actual interests that could be met by another object of exchange」, and render a fresh judgment if the new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
The counterpart showed interest in understanding what the community will not give up, rather than in replicating the rite.
The rite's later generations stated that they want to take part in the limited shared performance.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
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.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.- IAA · SETI Declaration 2026
- NASA · Planetary Protection Standing reference
- UN · Declaration on Future Generations 2024
- OECD · Strategic Foresight Toolkit 2025
The record of this question
- Question
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