Excellent story! I second the idea that this belongs in Main.
Also, I particularly liked your idea of physics being left to humans so as not to spoil the fun. It’s both an unusual idea and one of my personal requirements for a utopia...spoilers are so boring.
Well no, but an AI could figure things out and then not tell the physicists. Same thing as when you let a kid take apart a toaster to find out how it works instead of just telling them...or was that only my parents that did that?
I got the impression that was what happened to the fields that WEREN’T left for humans, and that the humans wanted to genuinely be the first to know X rather than just having the experience of discovering it, or believe so falsely.
They couldn’t, that’s the entire point of the distinction. There’s a large amount of material on LW about how you can have values about stuff other than your own mental states and I’m not going to repeat it all.
Excellent story! I second the idea that this belongs in Main.
Also, I particularly liked your idea of physics being left to humans so as not to spoil the fun. It’s both an unusual idea and one of my personal requirements for a utopia...spoilers are so boring.
Unfortunately, the physics can’t be left to humans—it is too important. I am not sure if it’s too difficult also, but it is surely too important.
Well no, but an AI could figure things out and then not tell the physicists. Same thing as when you let a kid take apart a toaster to find out how it works instead of just telling them...or was that only my parents that did that?
I got the impression that was what happened to the fields that WEREN’T left for humans, and that the humans wanted to genuinely be the first to know X rather than just having the experience of discovering it, or believe so falsely.
… like you’d be able to tell?
They couldn’t, that’s the entire point of the distinction. There’s a large amount of material on LW about how you can have values about stuff other than your own mental states and I’m not going to repeat it all.