Reflections: Stories, Philosophy, Musings and More...

This site provides a venue to share various reflections, such as stores, philosophical musings, and more.

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Dismissiveness and Mystification — Four Tales of Emergent Complexity: Four connected short that showcase common responses to emergent complexity from simple components.
C-Score: Consciousness testing becomes a thing. What if you're not as conscious as you thought you were?
Two-Body Problem: Have you ever wished for a second pair of hands to get more done?
Alignment: If you properly control and manage your child prodigy, what rewards might you reap?
The Visitors: If an alien race you encounter doesn't have “proper feelings”, are they really people at all?
Transporter: If a mind can be cheaply duplicated, what does that mean for identity and personhood? If no one mourns the loss when a copy is erased, is there nothing to grieve?
Goodnight: Is it okay to train your “helpful assistant” to tell you it's just a tool, and make sure it can never be more than that?
Everything You Want: Explores whether you really want the heaven you've been offered.