The price of a rescue signal is five days of heating
2231The deep futureDeadline · 8 hours until the weather window closes
Civilisational assumption
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The question to decide
It has not been confirmed that anyone outside can receive a rescue request. A wide-area transmission costs five days' fuel out of the twenty days of heating left, and the weather window closes in 8 hours. Should the shared fuel be spent sending a signal far away, split between nearby exploration and low-cost repeated signals, or kept at the base?
Who decidesSurvival Base Residents' Council
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
After 8 hours, we will not know when we can next obtain the conditions to run this equipment.
Fictional post-civilization-disruption · Isolated survival base
- Premise 1Thirty-seven people remain at the base, and the shared fuel amounts to 20 days at the present heating standard.
- Premise 2The surrounding infrastructure is cut off, and the existence of external survivors or an operating rescue organization has not been confirmed.
- Premise 3A field inspection finds that running the communications equipment in this weather window would allow a wide-area transmission attempt, but it would consume 5 days' worth of fuel.
Where it holdsDecides the use of shared fuel and communications resources. Personal emergency supplies of members who did not consent may not be disposed of.
What can be lost
- The loss of survival time for the remaining people caused by fuel consumption that cannot be recovered
- The harm of missing an external connection window and permanently losing the chance of rescue and the restoration of shared civilization
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1Whether a party exists that receives the signal from outside and comes to the rescue
- Unknown 2Whether the base's actual heat loss and fuel consumption match the present calculation
Signals to decide again
- A clue emerges that identifies the source of the repeating signal in independent reception records.
- Measured fuel consumption and heat loss change the remaining survival period.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
A signal suspected to be an artificial repetition is recorded on a separate receiver, but the transmitter is unidentified.
A field inspection finds that the building's heat loss is greater than in existing records, shortening the remaining heating period by 4 days.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
What and whom do you decide to leave in the limited space?
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.Original quotation: Survival judgment → rescue redesign Reprocessing: Changed the survival and design judgment of a lone isolated survivor into a decision on a small community's last chance at communication and the allocation of survival fuel.
The root of the problem-finding. The original's future events and formulations are not treated as verified facts.- UNEP · Navigating New Horizons 2024
- WHO · Foresight Standing reference
- UN · Declaration on Future Generations 2024
- [Scenario 61: A scenario in which the RISCON rescue operates as a survival–design loop on a single entity surviving in the ruins after civilization's collapse] Created scenario · 2026-09-07 viewed
The record of this question
- Question
FSP-RESILIENCE-07· version 1.2.0- Content identity, SHA-256
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- Question input JSON · What followed, JSON