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The Black Box: Introduction
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Welcome! This is a short fictional piece focusing on the ideas of Vitalist materialism and the technologically mediated society. To navigate please use the inner dial pieces under the pages if you want to skip sections- although going in order is probably best. At the bottom of every page will be a navigation button. Please use that to follow the story in order! Thanks!
Idea of the story: An ethical decision is one where one chooses how to respond to a given situation based on values of “good/right” and “bad/wrong”, as opposed to mere expediency or efficiency
Dystopian society
The Black Box: Machine AI
Rules the ethical decision making of society- for humans, and in place of humans
Chooses the leader, teaches how to resolve problems within ethical boundaries,
Well-being of self vs. that of others
Based on a set of laws + manifesto: this was intentionally left unreadable and open-ended for the audience to imagine.
The chapters will iterate the following topics:
Programmed ethics vs. Human ethics.
Post-Anthropocentrism
Life beyond species
The possibility of a different outcome based on decisions made by the machine.
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