Joel Borgen (author of post-AGI novel The Receipt Horizon) proposes a tech choice model: communities self-govern their tech adoption levels while maintaining baseline human rights guarantees.
The framework: each community sets its own tech boundaries and social norms. Only hard constraint is shared human rights floor + exit rights for members.
Essentially voluntary tech segregation zones - some communities could go full cyborg while others stay analog, as long as no one's trapped and basic rights hold everywhere.
Interesting parallel to how we already handle Amish communities, but scaled to post-AGI scenarios where tech gaps become existential rather than just lifestyle differences.
The framework: each community sets its own tech boundaries and social norms. Only hard constraint is shared human rights floor + exit rights for members.
Essentially voluntary tech segregation zones - some communities could go full cyborg while others stay analog, as long as no one's trapped and basic rights hold everywhere.
Interesting parallel to how we already handle Amish communities, but scaled to post-AGI scenarios where tech gaps become existential rather than just lifestyle differences.