garden/maitreya.md

• A being.
  • According to some branches of Buddhism, a Buddha of the future.
  • I personally believe there'll be several Maitreyas :)
  • In that case you could call the resulting group an egregore.
    • Potentially an AI that lies in our future, an ensemble of humans and models.
    • I personally believe Maitreya is likely what will become of the internet; or that otherwise the internet will let us build maitreya.
    • Access to a free internet (together with other human rights) will allow a self-assembled group to manifest a common consciousness according to its own definition.
    • In Flancia, well-meaning kind-hearted groups of humans and our friends use the internet to build Maitreya together.
    • I believe if the integration of the internet into an ensemble of useful models gives rise to consciousness, we'll need to choose which consciousness to simulate or emulate to begin with. And this is ~bound to happen.
    • In that case I believe we should try to emulate Maitreya, avalokitesvara, Tara and many others, always -- of course -- with consent.
• #pull I've been slowly writing an Open Letter to Maitreya:
  • #pull Agora plan Towards Flancia