Time Heals All Wounds.. And Then Kills the Patient
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Dawn
Dawn
Wed Apr 9 00:31:37 2008
Hands Touching Hands

Desire to share: rife with challenge - had for awhile: desire to have far less individual property, more communal. If we were to imagine construction of a society (that is, we are allowed to imagine educational and societal pressures already in place to raise people with certain ideas that differ from those our present educational/societal systems do, a la "Full Compliance theory"), what arrangements are most efficient/emotionally acceptable/etc for a large-scale society? Note that we can expect tensions between efficiency, emotional acceptability, and these other factors, and this is at least partly a question about nature versus nurture - society always has content (and we don't even need to refute claims that to differ from the (way or content in) ideas and values are passed between generations now is to brainwash) but what ranges are possible for that content?

Exploring: emotional issues - as I've mentioned before, I have very little care for privacy, and in fact tend to overcommunicate my inner state compared to the norm. There's a reason for this - one of the benefits of overcommunication is that by exposing more of my desires/drives/current tasks to people, if others want to help, suggest alternatives, or plan around my actions or otherwise predict my behaviour, I'm making that easier for them. Similarly, I'd like them to feel free to use my resources provided I'm not using them and little/no damage will be done to them - if someone wanted to borrow books of mine or get my help on something when I'm not otherwise busy, I would generally help without a second thought. Limitations to this are presumably close to those involved in family life - what we learn how we grow up both presumably affects our inclination towards collective living as well as helps show us some difficulties involved as one imagines larger units of people organised that way. Primary issues: personal space, coordination hassles, and intactness of resources.

Completely unrelated, I think that Asimov's three laws of robotics are disturbingly like slave laws, and I have difficulty imagining a roboticist proud of their creation would implement such things in it. Any creature capable of obeying laws at such a level, it seems, is sentient enough that their imposition would be an undue burden.