((discalaimer; I’m cheating, i’ve actually held most of the weirdtopia positions as just as plausible seeming or more than the utopia ones for a long time))
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Utopia: Immortality as monolithic godlike superpersons
Dystopia: death
Wierdtopia: threads of conciousness bubbling in and out of existence, splitting and merging, without any having a sense of continuity or personal identity, frequently ending but never in a way that could sensibly be considered death.
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Utopia: everyone has the Friendly utility function, or at the very least one of a highly altruistic human, and are completely stable.
Dystropia: an indifferent or even evil super intelligence tiles the universe with something worthless.
Weirdtopia: Utility functions are swapped around like clothing, frequently bizarre, extremely evil and/or tragic, either by choice of the previous utility functions or of one many iterations past that set up an exoself or even some random outside force. Since most utility functions differ from the powers that be they experience strong sincere regret and striving to correct what they genuinely see as faults in the world, which generates great stories and truly genuine meaning and striving.
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Utopia: Everyone wishes the best for everyone else, and there is only peace and cooperation, possibly friendly sports at worst.
Dystopia: Brutal, all-out war and hate continues. There is death and negative sum games of all kinds.
Wierdtopia: Conflicts of the same scale and emotional intensity as war continue, with genuine emotions of hate and spite, and causing real pain to the loser, over things we would consider extremely petty, such as which pairing of fictional characters is the cutest. However these conflicts are moderated by different mind design and culture to never be truly destructive, and to never allow those not involved in them to come to harm.
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Utopia: the original AI fixes up the worst problems, sets up a good system, and then mostly fades into the background allowing individual minds (or whatever the closest equivalent is) to mostly do their own thing.
Dystopia: the original AI micromanages everything, allowing for little individual agency.
Wierdtopia: everyone is deeply integrated with the central AI, such that the distinction becomes meaningless and everyone feels their personal agency is behind it’s actions, and are arguably right in doing so.
((discalaimer; I’m cheating, i’ve actually held most of the weirdtopia positions as just as plausible seeming or more than the utopia ones for a long time))
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Utopia: Immortality as monolithic godlike superpersons
Dystopia: death
Wierdtopia: threads of conciousness bubbling in and out of existence, splitting and merging, without any having a sense of continuity or personal identity, frequently ending but never in a way that could sensibly be considered death.
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Utopia: everyone has the Friendly utility function, or at the very least one of a highly altruistic human, and are completely stable.
Dystropia: an indifferent or even evil super intelligence tiles the universe with something worthless.
Weirdtopia: Utility functions are swapped around like clothing, frequently bizarre, extremely evil and/or tragic, either by choice of the previous utility functions or of one many iterations past that set up an exoself or even some random outside force. Since most utility functions differ from the powers that be they experience strong sincere regret and striving to correct what they genuinely see as faults in the world, which generates great stories and truly genuine meaning and striving.
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Utopia: Everyone wishes the best for everyone else, and there is only peace and cooperation, possibly friendly sports at worst.
Dystopia: Brutal, all-out war and hate continues. There is death and negative sum games of all kinds.
Wierdtopia: Conflicts of the same scale and emotional intensity as war continue, with genuine emotions of hate and spite, and causing real pain to the loser, over things we would consider extremely petty, such as which pairing of fictional characters is the cutest. However these conflicts are moderated by different mind design and culture to never be truly destructive, and to never allow those not involved in them to come to harm.
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Utopia: the original AI fixes up the worst problems, sets up a good system, and then mostly fades into the background allowing individual minds (or whatever the closest equivalent is) to mostly do their own thing.
Dystopia: the original AI micromanages everything, allowing for little individual agency.
Wierdtopia: everyone is deeply integrated with the central AI, such that the distinction becomes meaningless and everyone feels their personal agency is behind it’s actions, and are arguably right in doing so.