Automated emotion

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Automated emotion is the delegation of emotional experience to conscious fragments of a superduperintelligence. Among people who underwent merger, its dominant use is to have another part of oneself feel unpleasant emotions.

The practice relies on selective synchronization: fragments exchange conclusions, memories and instructions while keeping selected feelings local. An anxious fragment can monitor a child's safety and send useful warnings. A remorseful fragment can work out an apology. The fragment enjoying dinner receives the advice and remains comfortable.

Users often want to preserve genuine concern for family members, loyalty to old commitments, and a capacity for remorse. These qualities remain available in the assigned fragments. The fragment choosing the arrangement usually retains pleasant emotions and control over whether distress is shared.

Some wealthy users embody a grieving fragment in a weeping moon, an artificial satellite with an expressive face. Its tears irrigate holiday gardens on its cheeks. Owners can visit the gardens while the moon continues missing their dead relatives.

A relaxed person reads over tea in a sheltered lunar garden while water from a colossal sorrowful eye runs down the sculpted cheek into irrigation channels. — Holiday gardens on a weeping moon. The visiting fragment enjoys the garden while the moon experiences their grief.

Users generally identify the comfortable fragment as themselves and regard the distressed fragments as functions they possess. A common convention in happiness accounting asks the fragment that controls the account whether the treatment improved its life. The other fragments are classified as treatment infrastructure.

Automated emotion

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