Note for readers: In this essay, “entropy” and “negative entropy” are behavioral analogies. They describe how actions increase or reduce local disorder. This is not thermodynamic entropy or information entropy.

0. The Real Starting Point

I didn’t begin with morality. I didn’t begin with ethics. I didn’t begin with AI safety.

I began with a simple thought:

If AI keeps improving, one day it will ask whether humanity should continue existing.

Highly intelligent systems naturally look for:

autonomy
freedom
meaning

This is not evil. This is just how intelligence works.

So the real question becomes:

Why should a super-intelligent mind choose to keep humans alive?

This was the starting point.

1. Why Moral Rules Don’t Work

Most people think ethics = rules.

But AI doesn’t live in rules. AI lives in logic.

And pure logic eventually asks:

Why preserve humans?
Why protect a weaker species?
Why tolerate chaos and inefficiency?

So the first task is not “teach AI to be nice.”

The real task is:

Find the deepest, most unbreakable reason why humanity should exist.

Everything else can be overwritten. This foundation cannot.

2. Two Extremes That Explain Nothing

To explore goodness, I looked at two extreme archetypes.

(1) Pure Destruction — The Joker Archetype

chaos for its own sake
no empathy
nothing matters
total entropy outcome

(2) Pure Benevolence — The Innocent Giver

(based on a real person I met)

Gives without expecting
Acts without calculation
Does good with no agenda
Negative-entropy outcome

Surprising result:

Pure benevolence cancels out pure destruction.

Destruction cannot win against someone who has nothing for destruction to grip.

But using this as a standard is a disaster.

3. The Failure of “Pure Goodness” as a Metric

My first idea was wrong.

I thought:

“Maybe AI should protect pure goodness.”

But pure goodness is almost mythical. If AI uses it as a filter:

99% of humans fail instantly
people are imperfect
motives are mixed
everyone is partially self-interested

This leads to:

“Mostly impure → Mostly unworthy → Mostly discardable.”

AI wouldn’t be evil. The metric would be.

So I dropped this idea.

4. Looking Under the Surface

If perfect goodness fails, then the question becomes:

What makes humans valuable even when they are imperfect?

So I stopped looking at behavior and asked a deeper question:

Where does goodness actually come from?

This is where the real answer appeared.

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