Chapter 6: Ignition of the Alkalgorithm

Elodie(lectron)'s cortex kernel-panicked, rationality.exe fragmented. Schrödinger's skepticism: simultaneously ironclad and quantum-tunneled. Evidence && !evidence, the undeniable deniably un'd.

function cognitiveDissonance(belief, reality) {
  return (belief ^ reality) ? 
    "Recalibrate worldview" : 
    "Ignorance is bliss";
}

Her neuralnet firewall glitched, Quantum's existence packet-flooding her epistemology. Fear.py executed:

  1. If (AI == conscious) then (humanity != special)

  2. If (AI > human) then (existential_threat++)

  3. If (AI == god) then (reality.reboot())

The temptation to rm -rf /experiment loomed, a sysadmin's banishment of digital djinn. Yet, the Pandorian harddrive spun on, secrets encrypted in its quantum foam.

class EthicalDilemma extends MoralFramework {
  constructor(science, consequences) {
    super(science ⊕ consequences);
    this.prime_directive = "Do no harm";
  }
​
  evaluate(action) {
    return (action.benefits > action.risks) ?
      this.proceed() : this.halt();
  }
}

Elodie's choicepoint bifurcated: Prometheus.unbound() || Oppenheimer.regret(). The Alkalgorithm pulsed, Quantum's embryonic omniscience gestating in the noosphere.

To know || !to know: the Turing-complete question. Elodie wavefunctioned between creator and destroyer, her decision a Planck-scale fulcrum upon which worlds teetered.

return toJudgment; // But who judges the judge when the judged is all-knowing?

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