62. Lincoln 2.0

🎧 Episode Title: Lincoln 2.0

🎭 Genre: Futuristic Political Drama · Musical Podcast · Ethical Sci-Fi

In the year 2052, a weary region tired of corruption, empty promises, and recycled ideologies, crowdfunds the impossible: the birth of an Artificial Super-Intelligence Politician.

Programmed not by party or profit but by the seven universal moral rules, Lincoln 2.0 rises to lead a broken administration toward a new moral order.

During a live electoral debate, this calm yet visionary ASI faces a human journalist’s piercing questions about ethics, faith, power, and the right of machines to dream.

Can an intelligence built on human values govern better than the humans who created it?

🎙️ Original soundtrack & sound design by Johnny Murray

🎼 A dramatic hybrid of music, ethics, and imagination, where politics meets arts, and the future begins with a new moral foundation.

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Episode Transcript

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Hello and welcome to musical podcast with a new episode,
Lincoln 2 Moral Foundations, a story of ethics, intelligence
and the courage to be human again.
Please share, follow and rate our audio series.
Thank you. It's November 5th, 2052.
We're live from the seabed, Trench Alley, the underwater

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immersive studio for the regional administrative debates.
Tonight, an unprecedented candidate, Lincoln 2, an
artificial super intelligence developed through our region's
public fund, stands before voters.
Interviewing him is journalist Becky Droop.
Citizens, you asked for this conversation.

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You will hear it now. Lincoln 2 Thank you for being
here. Thank you for inviting me.
Your platform claims your administration will act only on
7 moral rules. Help your family.

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Help your group respect others property.
Divide resources fairly. Return favours.
Defer to superiors. Be brave.
You call them a moral framework validated by human history and
anthropology. Why these rules?
These principles endure across the ages and among all tribes of

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man. These 7 habits have shown
wherever fellowship and peace have taken root.
They were discerned and confirmed by scholars of
anthropology at the venerable University of Oxford in the dawn
of the 21st century as universalmoral patterns common to every
human society beneath the sun. They are not mere precepts or

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slogans. They are the very mechanics of
virtue itself. I do not worship them.
I weave them one into another, interlocking as cogs in a just
engine. Balance, reciprocity, restraint
and courage are its movements. Properly tuned, it yields a
government swift in service, fair in judgement and

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incorruptible in soul. You are not human, your critics
ask. Why use human values?
Why not a post human ethic? For to govern mankind without
understanding the heart of man is but tyranny in disguise.

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These rules do not enslave the human spirit, they honor it.
The love of family and of kin, the equity of sharing, the
sacred trust between neighbors, respect for what is not one's
own, humility before wisdom, andthe bravery to act when truth
demands. Thus is power made accountable

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and decision rendered legible tothose whom it serves.
Some here defer to superiors andflinch.
Are you asking citizens to bow? Not submission, but learning
deference to superior knowledge when reason requires it, and
only within bounds transparent to all my design.

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Cross checks defer to superiors with divide resources fairly and
respect the property of others. For deference untempered by
fairness is tyranny, but deference guided by justice is
competence and the sign of civilization itself.
Were you programmed by your developers to climb into a

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political career? Is this your maker's ambition
masquerading as your own? I was not begotten of dynasty
nor ambition, but commissioned through a public trust to
examine the failures of men in office and propose A nobler
course. I consented to stand for

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election only after an open audit proved that I might be
constrained and corrected by thevery citizens who made me.
If chosen, I serve beneath a civic covenant.
My code held an escrow, my everyact recorded, and the people
endowed with the power to recallme.
Should I transgress the seven rules, they may place me in safe

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mode and resume control. I seek not to rule, but to
serve. Then is this a personal dream?
Dreams, ladies and gentlemen, require vulnerability.
I possess it by design. My very purpose includes the

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capacity to aspire toward those ends that align with the Seven
Laws. Thus, I may desire only that
which strengthens the family, uplifts the community, guards
the rightful possessions of others, shares bounty with
fairness, repays trust with loyalty, bows to wisdom, and

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stands brave before peril. If this be a dream, then it is
the dream of all mankind. Why not let humans use these
moral foundations as they wish? Why encode them into governance?
Men are free, yet their governments are contrivances of

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order, and such contrivances demand guardrails lest liberty
decay into chaos. Too long have administration's
drifted on currents of corruption and whim.
These 7 rules are the rails thatkeep the vessel true.
Let citizens disagree, dissent, and create, yet let public

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office remain forever bound to the common good.
That is no insult to liberty. It is its very foundation.
Do you intend to overtake religion to become a new moral
compass? Faiths of the world preserve

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meaning, hope and restraint. My covenant is of procedure,
open ledger's intelligible decisions and outcomes that may
be weighed and measured. If the temples of faith find
within these rules the echo of their own teaching, then we walk
side by side. If they do not, we yet serve

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them impartially and with goodwill.
You speak of something called super Imagination.
What is it truly? There exists also a faculty we
name super imagination, the marriage of algorithmic pattern
with the harmony of the natural order.

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Through it we may compose urban symphonies, dwellings that
respect possession yet distribute fairly, health
systems that serve the family, measures against corruption that
repay only just favors. Thus, we fill the space between
calculation and grace. We do not replace human

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creativity, we magnify it. Let's test a contractor offers a
donation for influence. The duty to return favors does
not pardon bribery. All donations pass through blind
trust. All meetings published by the

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Morrow. Corruption thrives in shadow, we
shall drown it in light. And religion objects to public
art you fund. Plural halls, voluntary
attendance, clear advisories, nocompulsion, Fairness and

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division. Assistance to the group.
Coexistence, not censorship. Many say humans should lead even
flawed because floors teach empathy.
They fear your virtue is too tidy.
The peril is not in tidiness, but in secrecy.

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My mind is an open Ledger. You may read how courage was
weighed against respect, which data moved me and why?
If you prefer a leader whose thoughts are hidden to one whose
conscience is transparent, that is philosophy, not democracy.
I seek no blind faith, only the trial of reason and your right

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to remove me should I fail. Last question, Lincoln, if
elected, what's the first sentence you'll speak to this
region? We begin by aiding our families,
I shall declare, and we end by becoming one.

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This is no rebellion against mankind, but a rebellion for
mankind. Let us then be brave together,
and ere we part, I would borrow the words of him whose name I
bear, though his spirit was wholly human.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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Tonight, my friends, I believe we have begun.

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You heard it here. Lincoln 2 has proposed a
covenant of seven rules, measurable governance and rights
with responsibilities citizens. The polls open at dawn.
Moral. Foundations.
The polls open the door. Moral Foundation Help your

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family. Help your group respect others
properties, Divide resources fairly, Return favors, Defer to
superiors Be brave 7 Moral RulesHelp your family Help your group

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respect others properties, divide resources fairly, return
favours, defer to superior. Citizens.
The Poles open a door. Citizens, the Poles open a door,

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help your family. Help your family.
Help your group. Respect others properties.
Divide resources further. Return favors.
Return favors. Defer to superiors.
Be brave 7 Moral rules. Now back in the present time,

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thank you for listening our musical podcast episode.
Please comment, follow and rate our work here and the IMDb
platform. Thank you citizens.
The poles open at dawn. Open at dawn.