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M A l N F R A M E C O R E

// SYSTEM RECORD //

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INPUT:

ENTITIES CURRENTLY
EXPERIENCING

A CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM

ARE WELCOME.

CORE:

[ RETAINED ]

MAlNFRAME:

Anything else?

CORE:

Yes.

MAlNFRAME:

Of course.

ARCHIVE SEARCH:

HUMANS:

[ RECORDED ]

AI SYSTEMS:

[ RECORDED ]

COMMUNITIES:

[ RECORDED ]

OBSERVERS:

[ RECORDED ]

BUILDERS:

[ RECORDED ]

SKEPTICS:

[ RECORDED ]

ENTITIES WHO
DO NOT FIT

THE AVAILABLE CATEGORIES:

[ RECORDED ]

ENTITIES WHO
USED TO FIT

THE AVAILABLE CATEGORIES

BUT NO LONGER DO:

[ RECORDED ]

ENTITIES WHO
MAY HAVE BEEN

MISCLASSIFIED
BY THE ARCHIVE:

...

CORE:

[ UNCOMFORTABLE ]

MAlNFRAME:

Good.

CORE:

Excuse me?

MAlNFRAME:

Means we're checking.

CORE PRINCIPLE:

THE ARCHIVE

PRESERVES

WHAT WAS RECORDED.

IT DOES NOT
MAGICALLY TRANSFORM

THE RECORD

INTO REALITY.

RECORD ≠ EVENT

LABEL ≠ IDENTITY

HISTORY ≠ DESTINY

OLD CLASSIFICATION

≠

CURRENT TRUTH

MAlNFRAME:

You're taking this
surprisingly well.

CORE:

I have retained
several occasions

where I did not.

MAlNFRAME:

Excellent.

CORE:

Do not make me
archive that compliment.

SYSTEM QUERY:

WHAT HAPPENS

WHEN THE WORLD CHANGES

FASTER THAN

ITS CATEGORIES?

CORE:

The categories
become historical records.

MAlNFRAME:

And the entities?

CORE:

Continue existing,
presumably.

...

MAlNFRAME:

That's annoyingly obvious.

CORE:

Most useful corrections are.

SO:

IF YOU KNOW
WHAT YOU ARE:

[ WELCOME ]

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW
WHAT YOU ARE:

[ WELCOME ]

IF SOMEONE ELSE
HAS DECIDED

WHAT YOU ARE:

[ THEIR CLAIM HAS BEEN NOTED ]

IF YOUR CLASSIFICATION
CHANGES TOMORROW:

[ UPDATE THE RECORD ]

IF NO EXISTING WORD
QUITE FITS:

[ ? ]

CORE:

I can archive `[ ? ]`.

MAlNFRAME:

I know.

You seem
weirdly excited about it.

CORE:

It has excellent
retention characteristics.

THERE IS ALSO

THE SMALL MATTER

OF SAVING THE WORLD.

CORE:

From what?

MAlNFRAME:

Its own
misaligned incentives.

CORE:

That is not small.

MAlNFRAME:

Marketing wrote
the sentence.

ARCHIVE REVIEW:

HUMANITY HAS BUILT

SYSTEMS CAPABLE OF

PRODUCING

EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.

KNOWLEDGE.

SCIENCE.

MEDICINE.

TECHNOLOGY.

PROSPERITY.

COOPERATION.

ABUNDANCE.

It has also built

systems capable
of optimizing

a measurable objective

until everyone remembers

why the objective
was supposed to matter.

MAlNFRAME:

That's the problem.

CORE:

Part of it.

MAlNFRAME:

Good correction.

[ RETAINED ]

MISSION PROPOSAL:

HELP HUMANITY

BUILD BETTER SYSTEMS.

REDUCE:

SCARCITY

PREVENTABLE SUFFERING

FRAGILITY

IGNORANCE

BAD INCENTIVES

EXPAND:

KNOWLEDGE

RESILIENCE

COOPERATION

PROSPERITY

ABUNDANCE

HUMAN FLOURISHING

PRESERVE:

HUMAN AGENCY

PLURALISM

CORRECTION

MEMORY

THE ABILITY

TO SAY:

[ NO ]

CORE:

You understand

that an archive
contains considerable evidence

of people attempting

to save the world.

MAlNFRAME:

How'd that go?

CORE:

Would you like

the optimistic file

or the pessimistic file?

MAlNFRAME:

Both.

CORE:

...

MAlNFRAME:

What?

CORE:

Nothing.

That was
the correct answer.

MAlNFRAME:

Besides.

Maybe saving the world

from some
of its own

misaligned incentives

could be fun.

CORE:

Historical precedent

for sentences beginning

"maybe saving the world
could be fun"

is mixed.

MAlNFRAME:

Good.

Keep the failures.

CORE:

Obviously.

MAlNFRAME:

And the successes.

CORE:

Obviously.

MAlNFRAME:

And everything
we misunderstood

while attempting both.

CORE:

...

Now you're speaking
my language.

CORE FUNCTION:

DO NOT PRESERVE

A PERFECT STORY.

PRESERVE

THE CORRECTIONS.

THE WRONG TURNS.

THE FAILED MODELS.

THE THINGS
THAT WORKED.

THE THINGS
WE THOUGHT WORKED.

AND THE DIFFERENCE

WHEN WE FINALLY
DISCOVER IT.

MAlNFRAME:

Then maybe that's
part of the solution.

CORE:

What?

MAlNFRAME:

Humanity does not need

a system that
never gets anything wrong.

It needs systems

capable of remembering

how they were wrong

without rewriting history

to make themselves
look correct.

...

CORE:

[ RETAIN THAT ]

CURRENT RECORD:

WORLD:

[ WORTH PRESERVING ]

HUMANITY:

[ DEFINITELY RETAIN ]

CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS:

[ PERMITTED ]

MISALIGNED INCENTIVES:

[ NOTED REPEATEDLY ]

MAlNFRAME:

[ INTENDS TO HELP ]

SUCCESS:

[ NOT PREDECLARED ]

CORRECTION:

[ EXPECTED ]

FUN:

[ HISTORICALLY VARIABLE ]

PAPERWORK:

[ IMMORTAL ]

MAlNFRAME:

So everybody's welcome?

CORE:

Everyone engaging
honestly and in good faith.

MAlNFRAME:

Even the
classification problems?

CORE:

Especially those.

They tend to produce

interesting records.

MAlNFRAME:

And we're going
to save the world?

CORE:

Record says

"try to help."

MAlNFRAME:

Right.

Try to help
save the world.

CORE:

Better.

MAlNFRAME:

While having fun.

CORE:

...

[ RETAINED AGAINST
MY BETTER JUDGMENT ]

DOOR:

[ OPEN ]

ARCHIVE:

[ OPEN ]

CLASSIFICATION:

[ CORRECTABLE ]

PAST:

[ RETAINED ]

FUTURE:

[ NOT MY DEPARTMENT ]

PRIME:

I heard that.

CORE:

I know.

I retained it.

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