Permission to share your personal data

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Permission to share your personal data is a private social media entry between 1k and Doge (666).

Transcript

• Doge (666): 1k. We met in New Jerusalem, if you remember.
• Doge (666): I spoke to my friends. This whole mysterious island expedition thing has the city a bit on edge. They have some questions for you before I make any introductions.
• Doge (666): Do you consent to my gathering and sharing your personal data?
  • 1k (1000): I consent.
    • Doge (666): Good choice. There's six questions. Standard vetting procedure. We'll get the best results if you answer in whatever way is most true to you.
  • 1k (1000): Wait, what am I signing up to?
  • 1k (1000): I do not consent.
• Doge (666): Question one. Which is more important for making good decisions: compassion or knowledge?
  • 1k (1000): Compassion.
  • 1k (1000): Knowledge.
  • 1k (1000): I don't know.
  • 1k (1000): I reject the terms of the question.
    • Doge (666): I know it's difficult to translate our infinite reality into binary language. Nonetheless I suggest if you have any natural inclination towards either idea, you answer that way, even if it's not strictly correct. But if you insist I'll communicate your apathy to my companions. The player must select another answer.
  • Doge (666): Thank you.
  • Doge (666): Question two. Is it ever okay to lie or misdirect in order to keep a secret?
    • 1k (1000): Yes, lying can be okay.
    • 1k (1000): No, lying is never okay.
    • 1k (1000): I reject the terms of the question.
      • Doge (666): Kind of a boring answer, but okay, it's noted.
    • 1k (1000): I don't know.
  • Doge (666): Question three. When people do wrong, do they deserve to be punished for it beyond what is necessary for our own protection?
    • 1k (1000): Yes, bad behavior deserves to be punished.
      • Doge (666): Phew, that one's controversial! I'm glad it's not me that has to answer these.
    • 1k (1000): No, no one deserves to suffer unnecessarily.
    • 1k (1000): I just don't know.
    • 1k (1000): I dislike the question.
  • Doge (666): Question four. Now it gets metaphysical. In your opinion can the world be reduced to mechanical parts? Or is existence just weirder than we'll ever really know?
    • 1k (1000): The universe is reducible to universal basic laws.
    • 1k (1000): The universe is weird, we'll never full understand it.
    • 1k (1000): It's both.
      • Doge (666): Of course it is. Look, I don't write these questions, I just ask them. If you don't want to choose one or the other, I'm quite happy to forward that to my friends.
    • 1k (1000): It's neither.
  • Doge (666): Question five. Can things really change for the better, for good? Or do good times and bad just come around in cycles?
    • 1k (1000): Eventually change for the better is always followed by change for the worse.
    • 1k (1000): Human progress shows things can get better and stay that way.
    • 1k (1000): I really can't say.
    • 1k (1000): It's a false dilemma.
      • Doge (666): Yeah. I don't know if that one was metaphysics or politics, but regardless I didn't like it either.
  • Doge (666): Final question. Which is more important to the success of civilisation [sic]: to respect the lessons of our past, or to rewrite the rules for our future?
    • 1k (1000): We should not let our future be defined by our past.
    • 1k (1000): We should not disregard the wisdom which brought us here.
    • 1k (1000): I don't know.
      • Doge (666): That's sort of a cop out if you ask me, but on that note I guess we're done here.
    • 1k (1000): It depends.
  • Doge (666): Oh, hold on, I've got a last minute addition. Ugh, it's a weird one, I know who this one came from. Alright, question seven. Can praying for something make it more likely to come true?
    • 1k (1000): Yes, prayer can make things come true.
    • 1k (1000): No, prayer has no effect on the world.
    • 1k (1000): I haven't got an answer.
    • 1k (1000): This question is too vague.
      • Doge (666): Kind of an anti-climax to this whole process, but okay.
    • Doge (666): I think that's everything I need. I'll forward your answers to my friends and let you know if any of them is interested in taking things further.