Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies
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🌍 World Summary
Vision Statement
Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies would nurture human-scaled, principally agricultural, close-knit joie de vivre communities of multi-generational families; maintain a calibrated relationship with both technological and natural ecosystems; encompass small-scale communities, medium-scale networks, and national-scale systems; and protect a portion of what may remain of humanity from the final suppression, alteration, and/or elimination of quintessential human qualities.
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Self-Sustainability
Self-sustainability will, as AI and automation increasingly threaten to further dehumanize human existence, enable nested human communities to maintain equilibrium through appropriate-scale technologies, regenerative cycles, and autonomy philosophies to preserve essential human qualities.
What kind of AI exists in your world?
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is generally viewed as possessing capabilities far exceeding human intelligence across all domains. ASI integrates: superior reasoning (the ability to process and analyze information beyond human capability), inventiveness (the capacity for self-improvement and novel creation), and wisdom (the ability to determine appropriate values and exercise judgment). ASI represents not merely enhanced computational power but a qualitatively different form of intelligence.
New or Reformed Institution
First steps: The author proposes a not-for-profit “Isolated Societies Research Institute,” dedicated to researching SSIS feasibility and developing implementation frameworks across various population scales and technological ecosystems. The Institute will aim to facilitate dialogue between policymakers, academic institutions, technology developers, and civil society about preserving quintessential human qualities in an age of accelerating technological transformation.
Transformed Sector
Beyond the certainty of AI’s deterministic evolution and the high probability of further dehumanizing, only uncertainty is certain. What remains certain is the raison d’être of the proposed SSIS which may, with ASI’s blessing, preserve quintessential human qualities (the interplay, nurtured by a close-knit community of multi-generational families, of instinctual algorithms and moderate intelligence expressing itself as romantic sensibility and behavior).
A Major Crisis Overcome
Without soul, heaven, or God, just ASI! In a transhuman future, SSIS become humanity’s crucial refuge. These SSIS preserve our species’ distinction not in zoos or through rejection of technology but by integrating technology within the best human-centered boundaries that we can possibly design. As ASI optimizes for efficiency, these communities maintain embodied wisdom, authentic connection, and the creative inefficiencies that define our humanity allowing it to evolve on its own terms.