The group who discovers this restart manual could gain a huge advantage over the other groups in the world population -- they might reach the industrial age within a few decades while everyone else is still in the stone age.
This discoverer group will therefore have a huge influence over the world civilization they create.
I wonder if there were a way to ensure that this group has good values, even better values than our current world.
For example, imagine there were a series of value tests within the restart manual that the discoverers were required to pass in order to unlock the next stage of the manual. Either multiple groups rediscover the manual and fail until one group succeeds, or some subgroup unlocks the next step and is able to leap technologically above the others in the group fast enough to ensure that their values flourish.
If those value tests somehow ensure that a high score means the test-takers care deeply about the values we want them to have, then only those who've adopted these values will rule the earth.
As a side note, this would be a really cool short story or movie :)
The group who discovers this restart manual could gain a huge advantage over the other groups in the world population -- they might reach the industrial age within a few decades while everyone else is still in the stone age.
This discoverer group will therefore have a huge influence over the world civilization they create.
I wonder if there were a way to ensure that this group has good values, even better values than our current world.
For example, imagine there were a series of value tests within the restart manual that the discoverers were required to pass in order to unlock the next stage of the manual. Either multiple groups rediscover the manual and fail until one group succeeds, or some subgroup unlocks the next step and is able to leap technologically above the others in the group fast enough to ensure that their values flourish.
If those value tests somehow ensure that a high score means the test-takers care deeply about the values we want them to have, then only those who've adopted these values will rule the earth.
As a side note, this would be a really cool short story or movie :)