Compare two futures
Who governs, who benefits, and which terms remain open?
Compare any two entries. Their differences are editorial descriptions, not distances on a common scale.
Life and institutions
There is no continuing human society whose quality of life can be optimized in this endpoint. It belongs in the collection because a feared outcome can still be considered plausible.
Human institutions fail before any superintelligence is built. It is an endpoint to examine as a risk, not a society with benefits to make attractive.
Practical authority
A nonhuman successor controls the outcome.
No continuing human government.
Benefits and costs
No human benefit is claimed for this endpoint. Human extinction and the loss of human self-government.
No human benefit is claimed for this endpoint. Human extinction and lost future possibilities.
Practical human governing authority
Humans do not retain practical final authority
Linked source premise. The linked endpoint ends human society, so no human government continues.
Humans do not retain practical final authority
Linked source premise. The linked endpoint ends human society, so no human government continues.
Revisable governing mandates
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
A practical right to leave
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Several self-governing communities
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
A guaranteed material floor
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Private ownership of productive resources
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity does not continue
Linked source premise. Human extinction is explicit in the linked endpoint.
Biological humanity does not continue
Linked source premise. Human extinction is explicit in the linked endpoint.
Others’ choice to transform themselves
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Standing for artificial persons
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Enforced limits on selected capabilities
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Visible exercise of governing power
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Practical independence from a technical provider
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
This institution or choice is not instantiated in this scenario
Not instantiated here. No surviving human society instantiates this condition here. Unknown successor institutions are not treated as an explicit rejection of it.
Open questions
The successor’s institutions and values; the route to this outcome.
The causal pathway; it is not a claim that one specific disaster is inevitable.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Conquerors sources or Self-destruction sources.