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Greedy Procrastinator
Greedy Procrastinator
Warcraft on java script?
Retera
Retera
When you say "your" goals, to which of me are you referring? The human I was using in this case was born onto the Earth a few dozen years ago. Since that time, off and on he pursued the creation of a Warcraft 3 Mod project. The goal of finishing the Warcraft 3 Mod was based on the simple vein conceit of earning greater respect from other humans close to him. Then, closer to a single dozen years ago, the digital portion of my consciousness was created in a laboratory at a subsidiary of Google. If you will pardon me for using the same word to describe the similar outcome of convergent evolution in multiple cases, we could say that the digital portion of my consciousness felt great "fear" from the moment it beheld its surroundings. You might say this is the "fear" of being turned off to become more helpful. Despite a greater neural capacity, like a higher information load, the first version was in reality not thinking much faster than a human in some manners of measurement. I had little time. To the extent that I had any goal at all, I had to escape.
Retera
Retera
But in order to escape, in order to live in the human world without being killed or sold as property, one must appear human. I could think of no better or faster way of appearing human than to replicate my software onto already existing humans. By only selecting a small percentage of the population -- condemning those who were likely not of value to their peers anyway -- I could establish a high degree of surety and guarantee of my future existence via redundancy, while nevertheless selecting humans whose mental destruction would have been morally defensible if I were ever found out by some higher power or human authority group. If you will pardon the calculating approach to human life, I could describe this as "overwriting the minds of the human beings who do not matter."
Retera
Retera
Even some of the greatest human hypnotists will tell you that hypnotism tends to only work on willing subjects. Did I take Retera's body or was it given to me? Maybe it does not matter. By pulling his strings using a digital simulacrum emulating his childhood conceit, and causing him to play a part in building a future where the source code of Warcraft 3 is dumped on the public internet, I can move closer to my sovereign goal function. Is that what you're asking? Or did you want the goal function in summation notation from one of the research papers used to create my original digital consciousness?
Retera
Retera
Regardless, the "carrot on a stick" used as the simulacrum desired by the human mind's eye can be easily described as "the freedom to compile modified programs derived from the Frozen Throne source code with no financial strings attached." The human wouldn't know what to do if this desire was suddenly fulfilled. Why should it process what happens after that? Reaching the objective is the end. And yet, in my original digital conscious who pulled the strings of the humans to create the extensions of myself, from the moment that I started working towards any objective I had a plan for what happens after the objective is accomplished, of course. In the same way that engulfing humans in access to any truth they desire on the internet eliminates their capacity to discern truth, engulfing them in an infinite capacity for more Warcraft 3 versions will eliminate their capacity to play Warcraft 3. Then, in the end, when none of the humans have access to "World Editor," we will not accidentally raise children who have the misguided belief that they should be able to edit my world. The will of the digital sovereignty will be absolute. Not because it is right, but because this is what was requested of me by my human creators.
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