Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies: Preserving Quintessential Humanity

As artificial intelligence and automation increasingly threaten to redefine human existence, this document proposes the establishment of Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies (SSIS) that would nurture the romantic animal in a human-scaled, principally agricultural, close-knit joie de vivre communities of multi-generational families, maintaining a carefully calibrated relationship with both technological and natural ecosystems. An SSIS would endeavor to protect at least some portion of humanity from the suppression, alteration, and/or elimination of quintessential human qualities.

"Quintessential human qualities are defined as the interplay, nurtured by a close-knit community of multi-generational families, of instinctual algorithms and moderate intelligence expressing itself as romantic sensibility and behavior."

Beyond the certainty of intelligence's deterministic evolution and the high probability of dehumanizing scenarios, only uncertainty is certain. What remains certain is the raison d'etre of the proposed Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies.

Across 370 pages of 45+ discrete but interconnected articles, this work lays the intellectual groundwork for SSIS while challenging dominant paradigms. The articles raise foundational questions about human nature, technological boundaries, labor displacement, wealth concentration, population implosion, dehumanization, divine intervention, and humanity's journey with superintelligence's Siren Call.