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I would think that even such a technologically dominant civilization would want to keep a few sentinels in the base reality. If only to keep an eye out for str
by olefoo 16y ago
I would think that even such a technologically dominant civilization would want to keep a few sentinels in the base reality. If only to keep an eye out for stray existential threats. And such a sentinel would be a fascinating character to base the narrative around; aware of the true nature of things, given vastly consequential powers in physical reality, but for all that, but not particularly important in the view of the society running inside.
- derefr 16y agoTrue (I sort of had the feeling that this is why the Great Machine in Babylon 5 required an operator.) But when you start to think like a post-Singularity sentient, you start to realize that their ethical system would be much "pickier" than ours. They would see leaving any of their own (whether biological or AI-based) in the "limited" reality as a punishment equal in scope to the suffering child of Omelas—that is to say, one they could not possibly stand for.