The utility machine
October 1st, 2022 17:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mc776Wall to wall, racks and racks of vat-grown proto-brains sit in an ever-flowing slurry of nutrient bath.
They are perfect beings of utility: just complex enough to be aware of their own sentience, at least in theory, but hard-wired to constantly feel maximum pleasure all the time.
Eventually they burn out - blissfully, one presumes - and a new one must be grown to take its place.
To be a good person, you can sponsor the project and have a new brain added to the array in your name. You can then go on about your life, knowing that you have helped make the world - objectively - a better place.
The facilities are limited, however, and depending on availability not everyone may be able to afford sponsoring a new brain of their own. Donations to the expansion and maintenance funds are always welcome.
Society is heavily stratified between the progenitors, those who have given life to new brains under their own name, the hopefuls who may have missed this round but may be able to reserve some priority by sufficient contributions to future expansions, and the rabble who must constantly try to make up for their noxious existence by funding the maintenance tier.
They are perfect beings of utility: just complex enough to be aware of their own sentience, at least in theory, but hard-wired to constantly feel maximum pleasure all the time.
Eventually they burn out - blissfully, one presumes - and a new one must be grown to take its place.
To be a good person, you can sponsor the project and have a new brain added to the array in your name. You can then go on about your life, knowing that you have helped make the world - objectively - a better place.
The facilities are limited, however, and depending on availability not everyone may be able to afford sponsoring a new brain of their own. Donations to the expansion and maintenance funds are always welcome.
Society is heavily stratified between the progenitors, those who have given life to new brains under their own name, the hopefuls who may have missed this round but may be able to reserve some priority by sufficient contributions to future expansions, and the rabble who must constantly try to make up for their noxious existence by funding the maintenance tier.
