Better than Fiction

Chapter 0

THE END

Hey people.
(I mean hey, People.)

What if, just as a thought experiment, we questioned an assumption most of us never consciously chose?

What if instead of implicitly optimizing for maximize profit, we tried something else?

What if we explicitly chose an objective function more like:

Optimize human flourishing, while minimizing unnecessary human suffering

Not as a moral claim.
Not as a policy proposal.
Just a compass to guide us.

If it helps, here’s a simple way to hold it, symbolic, not literal:

F = C × A²

One way to think about flourishing is as clarity, multiplied by alignment squared, where clarity matters, and alignment multiplies.

There are no conclusions today.

I’m posting this at the winter solstice, the point of deepest darkness, as the light grows longer.

The ending, maybe.
Or maybe the beginning.

THE BEGINNING