I really would like more information before committing.
In particular, I would be interested in power structures in that new society. Who decides things? Who runs things? What happens to the malcontents? How does propaganda and various ideological manipulation work?
The obvious reason is that as an entirely open empath/telepath you cannot hide anything from the authorities.
As an aside, I would also expect normal unfrozen/uploaded people who chose the telepathic society to be severely stressed, at least in the beginning.
I second that I want to gather information and might ask as a priority question can I find out if any of the the friends and family, or the people who I currently know, are in either society? Can I find out what their reasoning in choosing that society was? How have their interactions been with family members and friends who chose the other society (if any) through the monitored communication lines?
For instance, if the answer is ‘Everyone you know is dead and their descendants(if any) don’t find an old fogey like you particularly relevant, so none of your above questions grant you any information.’, I might pick the the telepathic society, because the loneliness of current society minus all current social contacts seems incredibly depressing.
But there are so many answers I can potentially see to those questions I find it difficult to think of my responses to any particular scenario without narrowing down the question and I’m not sure what I should consider the Unfought Hypothetical baseline.
The authorities also cannot hide anything from the general public. Police brutality depends on the fact that police are authorized to use force under certain circumstances, and have some latitude in determining when those circumstances apply. If the exact rationale for escalating a given conflict was a matter of public record, it would become much more difficult for such behavior to persist.
I really would like more information before committing.
In particular, I would be interested in power structures in that new society. Who decides things? Who runs things? What happens to the malcontents? How does propaganda and various ideological manipulation work?
The obvious reason is that as an entirely open empath/telepath you cannot hide anything from the authorities.
As an aside, I would also expect normal unfrozen/uploaded people who chose the telepathic society to be severely stressed, at least in the beginning.
I second that I want to gather information and might ask as a priority question can I find out if any of the the friends and family, or the people who I currently know, are in either society? Can I find out what their reasoning in choosing that society was? How have their interactions been with family members and friends who chose the other society (if any) through the monitored communication lines?
For instance, if the answer is ‘Everyone you know is dead and their descendants(if any) don’t find an old fogey like you particularly relevant, so none of your above questions grant you any information.’, I might pick the the telepathic society, because the loneliness of current society minus all current social contacts seems incredibly depressing.
But there are so many answers I can potentially see to those questions I find it difficult to think of my responses to any particular scenario without narrowing down the question and I’m not sure what I should consider the Unfought Hypothetical baseline.
The authorities also cannot hide anything from the general public. Police brutality depends on the fact that police are authorized to use force under certain circumstances, and have some latitude in determining when those circumstances apply. If the exact rationale for escalating a given conflict was a matter of public record, it would become much more difficult for such behavior to persist.