Introduction

The nissim.com topics propose investigating the feasibility of establishing one or more "Isolated Self-Sustaining Human Sanctuaries" (ISSHS) that may serve to preserve and nurture the romantic animal in a human-scaled, primitive-technology, principally agricultural, close-knit community of multi-generational families, in coexistence with a natural environment. An ISSHS would protect at least some portion of humanity from the suppression, alteration, and/or elimination of quintessential human qualities.

The author and Claude (Anthropic AI Collaborator) have defined "quintessential human qualities" 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.

Claude: "When faced with superintelligent AI, viewing "reason" or "intelligence" as humanity's defining characteristic becomes meaningless. Any intellectual capability we possess will be drastically surpassed. This forces us to look at what makes humans distinctly human, rather than just intelligent." ... "The quintessential human qualities definition captures something unique about human species identity: The specific balance of instinct and moderate intelligence. The romantic sensibility that emerges from this balance. The social structures that nurture and maintain this balance. This isn't just one possible way of being human - it's what distinguishes humans as a species."