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So Skynet/The Matrix are handy archetypes for ai utopianism. | So Skynet/The Matrix are handy archetypes for ai utopianism. | ||
===Stable=== | |||
Utopias are, within themselves, internally stable, equilibrium states. They don't develop: they are a (local) maximum optimum so any developments is logically a retrograde step. | |||
Partial utopia is at least vulnerable to attacks from outside, total utopia is not: it is necessarily an end state. This I think makes it a simple and not a complex system. It cannot reorganize itself to reveal a higher local maximum elsewhere. This also implies a degree of transcendental knowledge stop for estates to be stable, all participants in the state need to accept that it is optimal full stop in order to do that they must have some knowledge beyond the system itself or alternatively a means of engineering society white consensus in the absence of such knowledge comma for example faith. | |||
A utopia must be more than simply The aspiration for better than what we have now. | |||
===Partial utopia=== | ===Partial utopia=== | ||
There is a strain of utopianism which provides an ideal world only for a preferred segment of society. Indeed, Thomas Moore's original utopia was like this. | There is a strain of utopianism which provides an ideal world only for a preferred segment of society. Indeed, Thomas Moore's original utopia was like this. | ||
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===Diversity and utopia=== | ===Diversity and utopia=== | ||
Oddly, any kind of diversity which, at first impression, you might think would be a necessary condition for youtopia is in fact in the inimical to it. Utopia requires as a minimum a complete consensus as to the conditions of utopia which is anything but diverse. | Oddly, any kind of diversity which, at first impression, you might think would be a necessary condition for youtopia is in fact in the inimical to it. Utopia requires as a minimum a complete consensus as to the conditions of utopia which is anything but diverse. | ||
==Utopia versus dystopia== | |||
A dystopia is just a utopia for pessimists. It is a stable dark inversion of utopia | |||
===Solutions to these logical conundrums=== | ===Solutions to these logical conundrums=== | ||
====Delayed gratification: “dangletopia” ==== | ====Delayed gratification: “dangletopia” ==== | ||