An organization (Eternity) manipulates history across centuries to minimize risk and suffering, but in doing so has prevented humanity from ever reaching the stars, testing whether safety-maximizing governance extinguishes potential.
THE canonical risk-aversion-as-stagnation scenario. Models how over-regulation prevents breakthrough: directly relevant to the precautionary principle, innovation regulation, and whether risk elimination also eliminates progress.
Domains: Time Travel and Temporal MechanicsGovernance and Political SystemsExistential Risk and Civilizational CollapseEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-ifCautionary taleWarning / Self-preventing prophecy
Outcomes: CautionaryAmbiguous / MixedDystopian
Tags: temporal-governancecentral-planningintervention-failurestability-paradoxtemporal-governance-hubtemporal-regulationrisk-aversionstagnationsafety-vs-progresstemporal-history-regulationtemporal-exilepolitical-punishmentirrevocable-banishmenttemporal-exile-punishment