8.3 Billion Futures of Hope
Eight billion people, finite resources, and a future selected moment by moment — an argument for evolving rather than perishing. The clearest place to begin.
NOV 2011 · UPD 2026 · 4 MINOPEN →
Proposed Architectural Guideline for Instantiating Virtual Human Beings with AI Technologies Across Time
A generic OS for capturing, modeling, and re-instantiating "virtual human beings" across successive generations of AI — the Virtual Human Operating System.
This document does not claim that its outputs constitutes subjective experience, consciousness, or felt qualia in any philosophically sense.
The specification of this platform is meant to produce an approximation of a virtual human built from captured data and authored description, run on the AI substrate available at the time. It is not a claim of personal continuity, survival, or resurrection.
Users, including the subject themself, should understand the artifact for what the specification says it is: a model, built with consent, improved over time, never confused with the person it is modeled on.
To be perfectly honest I'm not even sure it is accurate enough or that it will even run or work (it is an early specification), but it is the best I could do within the time constraints and resources available to me and with the assistance of AI. Remember we are evolved beings, with all that implies, this thing is wrapped around an AI core, simulating emotion.
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