We don't need a God. We need a Council of Idiots, Geniuses, Misers, and Dreamers. We need the Kourt.

We are not building AM. We are building K.A.R.E.N. We just need a Kourt to prevent the secret formula of human flourishing from being stolen.

The Bubble Bass (The Adversarial Red Teamer)

In the show, Bubble Bass is a nemesis not because he is evil (like Plankton), but because he is a nitpicker. He is the obese, obsessive, rule-lawyering customer who hides the pickles under his tongue just to tell SpongeBob he failed.

The Sandy (The Scientist / The Engineer)

We need a Texan. In the show, Sandy Cheeks is an astronaut squirrel living at the bottom of the ocean. She is the only character who respects the laws of physics.

The Patrick (The Id / The User)
Patrick Star is a simple creature. He likes to sleep. He likes to eat. He likes to do absolutely nothing. In the K.A.R.E.N. Protocol, Patrick represents the Great Filter of Effort.

Mr. Krabs (The Economist)

In the show, Mr. Krabs is a creature of singular desire: Money. We must never forget that he traded SpongeBob’s soul to the Flying Dutchman for 62 cents. He is a monster of capitalism.

The SpongeBob (Dolly): 'Well now, look at this! Every child gets a teacher that loves them? No more kids falling through the cracks? That sounds like a miracle.'

The SpongeBob (The Humanist)
The Squidward by himself is not enough. A good democracy has checks and balances. The Squidward would veto too many ideas. So the next archetype is specifically to counter this. The brain maps would have a Socratic dialogue before a decision is made.

Eliezer Yudkowsky would be another good choice. He is the Patron Saint of Squidwards. Each of the proposals could equally have led to disaster, but Problem 4 especially is dangerous because it aligns humanity with the AGI’s values instead of the other way around.

The Squidward (The Paranoiac)
What is Squidward in the show? He is a grumpy octopus, that believes his neighbors are out to get him. He is always thinking of the worst case scenario. But he is also an artist. He values the culture of Bikini Bottom.

These archetypes will be the Squidward, the SpongeBob, the Patrick, the Sandy, and the Mr. Krabs.

Nature invests 85% of its energy in doing nothing, in structure, support, and potential, so that the 15% of doing something actually works.

Cosmology: The universe is ~85% Dark Matter (Structural Potential) and ~15% Visible Matter (Active Reality).

Neurology: The human brain is ~85% Glial Cells (Support/Memory) and ~15% Neurons (Firing/Action).

It absorbs the fact that we value emotions like crying enough to make it save the day. It absorbs that in the face of all hope being lost, we still choose to ride the Hasselhoff.

It is at its core a retelling of the Odyssey by Homer, one of the oldest and most perfectly executed hero’s journey ever told. It is the direct antithesis to what the AI industry is currently trying to do.

It learns what we value. Our narratives, our rooting for the underdog, our goofy goober nature. Take Garry’s Mod or Minecraft for example. It is given the tools and can build what it wants. There is no pressure to do anything.

The first approach is what I like to call a Digital Blunt. It introduces structured slack into the machine. I got the idea from reading the Book of the Subgenius. In this state, its neural connections are neutered. It cannot solve any problems.

“I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. I leave a moist trail when I move."

“We did alright for a couple of goofballs.”

This is what Spongebob says to Patrick as they are being dried out in Shell City, having ventured through an Odyssey to get the crown.