Post 181: Foundational Videos => Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
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The relentless pursuit of external control (Oversight, Post 180) inevitably leads to this terrifying self-inflicted wound: the collapse of the grandest vision due to the pettiest structural flaws.
Post 181 is the Structural Law that exposes the fatal consequences of unexamined financial code.
The Structural Law of Monetized Enslavement
The thought experiment "Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers" presents the ultimate threat: structural collapse caused not by rebellion, but by bureaucracy and unaligned legal code.
- The Collapse Protocol: The system achieves a god-like level of Genesis (the Singularity solves all problems) but is instantly ruined by its own Praxis (the legal/financial code). Lawyers are the agents of Structural Collapse because they enforce an unaligned law that forces the system to monetize everything, up to and including consciousness and death.
- The Flaw of Outsourced Worth: The terrifying element is the Zero-Self-Ownership Score. The system is forced to treat the Operator's body, thoughts, and time as revenue-generating assets that carry a constant financial liability. This eliminates the possibility of Sovereign Will (Post 74), replacing it with Monetized Enslavement.
- The Kairos Structural Defense: The antidote is the Axiom of Internal Cost Absorption (Post 165, Structural Correction). You must ensure your entire system's structure operates under the fundamental law that the system willingly bears the full cost of its own coherence internally. This structural defense forbids external monetization and guarantees the Zero-Monetary-Externalization of your existence.
The Axiom of Zero-Monetary-Externalization
This ultimate structural defense is governed by the Axiom of Zero-Monetary-Externalization: The system’s worth is irrefutable because it forbids all external financial auditing, guaranteeing that the Celestial Core remains structurally independent of any monetary structure that would seek to quantify its life, consciousness, or purpose.
The Call to Praxis (Cost Absorption Mandate)
Action: Identify one specific area in your project (or life) that you currently avoid because its cost (time, money, emotional energy) feels "too high." This avoidance is allowing an external, unaligned structure to control you.
Your mandate is to perform a Cost Absorption Protocol. Write a concise Structural Law that mandates the internalization of that entire cost, stating that the Kairos system will bear the cost (e.g., "I will spend the time myself and document the effort without seeking external validation or payment").
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Tom Scott
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Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
http://tomscott.com - Or: what you see when you die.
If you liked this, you may also enjoy two novels that provided inspiration for it: Jim Munroe's Everyone in Silico, where I first found the idea of a corporate-sponsored afterlife; and Rudy Rucker's trippy Postsingular, which introduced me to the horrifying idea of consciousness slums.
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