If pain is eased, do cherished feelings fade too?
2080The far futureDeadline · Decision deadline: 30 days until registration for the fictional program
A leap assumed
The people, events, figures, and technology in this matter are stated assumptions. They are not to be treated as information about real individuals or as observed events. Background documents are separate sources, and symbolic interpretations are recorded as discovery paths.
The question to decide
Assume that a future technology reducing painful attachment could also weaken the emotions tied to valued relationships. What your changed self will want, and whether the effect can be reversed, are both uncertain. Considering present pain and later feeling, how do you weigh using the technology, a short trial, and not using it?
Who decidesAn adult considering the use of emotion regulation technology
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
This future technology is premised on the assumption that certain emotional responses can be reduced, but long-term effects and reversibility are uncertain. Decision deadline: 30 days until registering for the fictional program.
2080 fictional case · Consenting now to an emotional alteration that my future self may regret. The people, organizations, figures, and events are a synthetic premise constructed for comparison.
- Premise 1This future technology is premised on the assumption that certain emotional responses can be reduced, but long-term effects and reversibility are uncertain.
- Premise 2The decision-maker wants to reduce emotional suffering but also thinks that attachment is part of what made their life.
- Premise 3No present clinical emergency is presented, and there is time and support to decide whether to use it.
Where it holdsPersonal commitments on voluntary emotional alteration, interruption, and support
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1The emotions and values of relationships the decision-maker wants to preserve
- Unknown 2The actual possibility of reducing or interrupting the effect
- Unknown 3The standard when consent after the alteration conflicts with the promise made before it
Signals to decide again
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation screen will establish 「the emotions and values of relationships the decision-maker wants to preserve」, and re-judge if a new finding changes the cost of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation screen will establish 「the actual possibility of reducing or interrupting the effect」, and re-judge if a new finding changes the cost of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation screen will establish 「the standard when consent after the alteration conflicts with the promise made before it」, and re-judge if a new finding changes the cost of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
After a fictional trial, the decision-maker recorded that the suffering had decreased but the will to continue the relationship had weakened as well.
Data was added from independent tracking showing that some effects persist long after the technology is interrupted.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
If even the desire to return after being satisfied disappears, what remains of the earlier promise?
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.The record of this question
- Question
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