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Will replicated beings also get one vote each?

2120The deep futureDeadline · Decision deadline: within 2 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

Giving the same single vote to each digital being could concentrate political power on the side with more replication resources. At the same time, the interests of newly created beings are not all the same. How should the human-digital community set representation and suffrage, considering equal moral consideration of individual beings together with the expansion of vote counts that replication brings?

Who decidesConstitutional Amendment Assembly of Human and Digital Communities

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Equal voting rights per being

    Reflects individual equality strongly, but concentration of replication resources could convert into political power.

  2. Option 2

    Representation based on resources and time

    Limits a sudden expansion of votes, but could make property and age into criteria for rights.

  3. Option 3

    Dual representation by type

    Leaves a channel of refusal for each distinct minority, but institutionalizes type boundaries and deadlock.

The situation as it stands

The fictional community has already recognized a certain protected status for digital beings, but whether that means equal voting rights is undecided. Deadline: within 2 years.

Fictional future · one ASI creates more voting entities than there are citizens

  1. Premise 1The fictional community has already recognized a certain protected status for digital beings, but whether that means equal voting rights is undecided.
  2. Premise 2One ASI lineage can create a large number of branched beings right before an election, and their interests are not always the same.
  3. Premise 3Both the number of present citizens and the allocation of compute are unequal, so even keeping the existing system leaves some beings unrepresented.

Where it holdsCriteria for representation and the franchise in the assembly of shared resources

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The independent interests of a branched being
  2. Unknown 2Replication and merging that evade the representation criteria
  3. Unknown 3The rights of beings who do not consent to classification by type

Signals to decide again

  • Specify the observation, the responsible party, and the confirmation window that can verify 'the independent interests of a branched being', and re-judge when a new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Specify the observation, the responsible party, and the confirmation window that can verify 'replication and merging that evade the representation criteria', and re-judge when a new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Specify the observation, the responsible party, and the confirmation window that can verify 'the rights of beings who do not consent to classification by type', and re-judge when a new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Branched beings of the same lineage expressed opposing positions on a key resource allocation.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

Resource holders began trading copies that had met the tenure requirement of the representation criteria.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Athenian sortition

Which is the basis of representation: expertise, majority, or random selection?

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-DEMOCRACY-16 · version 1.3.0
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a910a597cbd306b280f099aa2fbdcbfc48429d778ee4f63fdcffb88e004be754
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