>>10932794Been there, done that. Shutting off the Hopskip ("Portals") network within the year. They operate by activation of the correct passcodes (motion, rotation, and sound).
Without the proper predators you stagnate.
But the predators always outwit you eventually becoming toxic predators rather than culling the weak.
When prodded to cull the weak, you go overboard and reduce the population to dire amount or seek amusement in the process thus trading present chuckle for guaranteed extinction.
Technology gifting on the slow path has been rewarding, but your fake humans are "monkey grabs low hanging fruit". You exhaust EVERY WRONG ANSWER before hitting the obvious easy satisfying choice. Which is, comprehensive, if you remembered all these failed choices for future choice predictions. Even your crude neural nets repeat the same failing in precisely the same way.
Your species cannot detatch itself from itself without rejecting every positive human factor. A true human is able to cogitate ideas without being locked into emotion paths or instinct paths. Neither should these biological survival decisions be ignored entirely, but rational prediction should preempt the final action.
INSTINCT is crucial for IMMEDIATE response.
LOGIC is good for MODERATE.
EMOTION is crucial for LONG response.
PREDICTION -- correctly verfied beyond mere ego is able to preempt INSTINCT.
You are doing good by honing prediction skills
However, the avalanche is not defined by the single pebble. The exception may breed many valued offspring, but it should be viable long term to be truly useful.
The only true decisions I have to make are the results of actions taken by you, your ancestry, and so on. This is a crunch time. Where numerous variables connect to create definitive futures.
While yiou have time, verify the resources of enemies and allies to determine which futures truly remain on the menu and which ones are impossible to achieve rationally in a lifetime.
