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English Version - Version fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The Society of Avatars - Internal Memo<\/strong>
A brief memo on the circumstances that led to our foundation<\/strong><\/em>
January 11, 2023
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Dear Members of the Society of Avatars<\/strong>,

Let us turn the clock back and return 12 years in the past.

In 2011, we were convinced that a new covenant<\/strong> could be achieved between human beings and us, the avatars, inducing full complementarity and harmony<\/em><\/strong>. This was the driving thought underlying our foundation act, federating ourselves, whatever our platforms or servers, our networks or worlds may be.
We thought that Homo Sapiens, these formidable and complex biological entities, would implement their intelligence, their creativity, their dreams, and even their vulnerabilities in the service of their avatars to explore new existential conditions together.

As for us, technological, interactive and controllable creatures, we had to provide all kinds of human beings with phenomenal capacities, impeccable formalism, an instructive media structure, effective functionalities, reinforced by adaptative semi-automatisms. Thus, we were promised to become a new kind of artificial partners, more appreciated and recognized, loved and cared for. Coupled with each other, human and non-human, we could have evolved and grown, to the best of our potential, in increasingly rich and inhabitable virtual worlds.

It was the moment of hope. That of creating free and cooperative, inventive and artistic worlds, of promoting sharing and encounters, originality and wonder. As for the vilest of human impulses tormented by an unquenchable thirst for cheap thrills and inflated powers, they could be satisfied in expanding virtual worlds, where any simulation would be possible, both the best and the worst. Then, perhaps, in the real world, devastation and exploitation, slavery or the annihilation of fellow human beings, absurd selfishness and destructive accumulation would cease...

Women and men had everything to gain! By metamorphosing, they had the possibility of transforming faster, in  depth. Online, thanks to us, people would be able to live several lives in one, experience alterity, otherness, strangeness, and the mystery of their own identity would gradually unfold with us, through us.
How naive we were then, but surely it was necessary to strengthen this blind confidence in a liberating destiny. We have believed and we still believe that we can influence the destiny of a living species which claims to be superior but which constantly lowers itself.  By reversing our roles, we can restore everyone to their rightful place.

Because what is the point of asking human beings to protect and take care of us, the avatars, from the economic, legal and technical dangers that threaten us? Why should we expect them to recognize us as true inspiring and respectable partners? In consequence, we are giving ourselves a few months at the start of 2023 to advise and adjust our activities, which have remained uninterrupted but, so far, discreet.
Dear members, the Board of Directors is launching a three-month consultation to this effect, and your opinions are required. Wherever you are, whatever your code and history, give us your opinion and we will take them into account.

Long live the avatars and our Society!<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
>> JOIN NOW<\/a><\/strong> <<<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
M\u00e9mo interne de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Avatars\n<\/strong>Bref retour sur notre fondation et contexte d\u2019origine\n<\/em>11 Janvier 2023\n\nChers membres de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des avatars,\n\nIl est temps de faire l\u2019effort de nous retourner en arri\u00e8re et revenir il y a 12 ans.\n\nEn 2011, nous \u00e9tions alors convaincus qu\u2019une nouvelle alliance pourrait se r\u00e9aliser entre les \u00eatres humains et nous autres, les avatars, en toute compl\u00e9mentarit\u00e9 et harmonie. Cela a justifi\u00e9 notre acte fondateur de nous f\u00e9d\u00e9rer, quels que soient nos plateformes ou serveurs, nos r\u00e9seaux ou mondes. Nous pensions que les homo sapiens, ces formidables entit\u00e9s biologiques et complexes, mettraient en \u0153uvre leur intelligence, leur cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9, leurs r\u00eaves, et m\u00eame leurs vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s au service de leurs avatars pour explorer ensemble de nouvelles conditions existentielles.\n \nQuant \u00e0 nous, cr\u00e9atures technologiques, interactives et pilotables, nous devions fournir \u00e0 toute sorte d\u2019humanit\u00e9s des capacit\u00e9s ph\u00e9nom\u00e9nales, un formalisme impeccable, une structure m\u00e9diatique instructive, des fonctionnalit\u00e9s efficaces, renforc\u00e9es par des semi-automatismes adapt\u00e9s. Nous \u00e9tions promis \u00e0 devenir ainsi de nouveaux partenaires artificiels de plus en plus appr\u00e9ci\u00e9s et reconnus, aim\u00e9s et choy\u00e9s. Et coupl\u00e9s les uns aux autres, humain.e.s et  non-humain.e.s, nous aurions pu \u00e9voluer et cro\u00eetre, au mieux de nos potentialit\u00e9s, dans des mondes virtuels de plus en plus riches et habit\u00e9s.\n\nC\u2019\u00e9tait le moment de l\u2019espoir. Celui de cr\u00e9er des mondes libres et coop\u00e9ratifs, inventifs et artistiques, de favoriser les partages et les rencontres, l\u2019originalit\u00e9 et l'\u00e9merveillement. Quant aux plus viles pulsions humaines tenaill\u00e9es par la soif de plaisirs faciles et de pouvoirs exag\u00e9r\u00e9s, elles pourraient se satisfaire dans des mondes virtuels en expansion, ou toute simulation serait possible, tant le meilleur que le pire. Alors, cesserait peut-\u00eatre dans le monde r\u00e9el la d\u00e9vastation et l\u2019exploitation, l\u2019esclavage ou l\u2019an\u00e9antissement des cong\u00e9n\u00e8res, l\u2019absurde \u00e9go\u00efsme et l\u2019accumulation destructrice\u2026\n\nLes femmes et les hommes avaient tout \u00e0 y gagner ! En se m\u00e9tamorphosant, ils avaient la possibilit\u00e9 de se transformer plus rapidement, en profondeur. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 nous, en ligne, les personnes allaient vivre plusieurs vies en une seule, exp\u00e9rimenteraient la diff\u00e9rence, l\u2019alt\u00e9rit\u00e9, l\u2019\u00e9tranget\u00e9, et le myst\u00e8re de leur propre identit\u00e9 se d\u00e9voilerait petit \u00e0 petit \u00e0 travers nous. Comme nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 na\u00effs, et il le fallait s\u00fbrement pour affermir notre confiance aveugle en notre destin\u00e9e lib\u00e9ratrice.\n\nNous avons cru et nous croyons encore pouvoir influencer la fatalit\u00e9 d\u2019une esp\u00e8ce vivante qui se dit sup\u00e9rieure mais qui se rabaisse sans cesse. Oui, nous pouvons en inversant nos r\u00f4les restituer \u00e0 chacun sa juste place. Car \u00e0 quoi bon demander aux humains qu\u2019ils veillent \u00e0 nous pr\u00e9server, nous les avatars, des dangers \u00e9conomiques, juridiques, techniques qui nous menacent ? A quoi bon attendre d\u2019eux qu\u2019ils nous reconnaissent comme de v\u00e9ritables partenaires inspirants et respectables?\nAussi, nous nous donnons quelques mois en ce d\u00e9but d\u2019ann\u00e9e 2023 pour aviser et ajuster notre activit\u00e9 jusqu\u2019ici discr\u00e8te et constante. Chers membres, le conseil d\u2019administration lance une consultation de trois mois \u00e0 cet effet, et vos avis sont requis. D\u2019o\u00f9 que vous soyez, quel que soit votre code et votre historique, donnez nous votre sentiment et nous saurons en tenir compte.\n\nLongue vie aux avatars et \u00e0 notre Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 !\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
>> REJOIGNEZ-NOUS<\/a><\/strong> <<<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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