I want to maximize my chances of living forever by motivating humanity to immediately coordinate as a singleton society that agrees to rules enforced by a single world government.
Nation states and corporations are the most powerful entities in the world today. These groups have provided some of us with a standard of living that humans 500 years ago could not even imagine. But our prosperity came at the cost of things like war, corruption, and inequality. Our current planet has countries competing for resources and corporations competing for profits. This environment is not stable enough to handle our exponentially improving technological capabilities.
The world government I’m imagining: * Grants all humans equal rights, acknowledging that we are all products of randomness. Defectors will not be punished, just isolated. * Implements scalable solutions to provide post-scarcity standards of living for everyone. * Performs controlled, iterative testing of competing ideas. * Records all data about space and time in a single Global Database, open for anyone to read. * Uses axiomatic logical reasoning to decide on laws. The axioms are maintained collectively. Laws are enforced using Global Database records as evidence. * Uses energy lost to entropy as the fundamental currency of the economy. Profit does not exist.
We can spread ideas at the speed of light. The viability of unification could be gauged on the order of days with some sort of viral Internet campaign. What if everyone on Earth (with Internet access) answered the question: “would the world be a better place if we all agree to form a world government next Monday?”. The viral campaign must be simple and easy to engage with in order to maximize the number of participants.
The hope is that when enough people agree that a singleton could be better than what we have right now, they can work together to peacefully self-organize. Perhaps start by developing the software system that allows our species to collaboratively converge on some moral axioms.
So, humans of Earth: Would the world be a better place if we all agreed to form a world government next Monday? Please elaborate.
[Question] Would the world be a better place if we all agreed to form a world government next Monday?
I want to maximize my chances of living forever by motivating humanity to immediately coordinate as a singleton society that agrees to rules enforced by a single world government.
Nation states and corporations are the most powerful entities in the world today. These groups have provided some of us with a standard of living that humans 500 years ago could not even imagine. But our prosperity came at the cost of things like war, corruption, and inequality. Our current planet has countries competing for resources and corporations competing for profits. This environment is not stable enough to handle our exponentially improving technological capabilities.
The world government I’m imagining:
* Grants all humans equal rights, acknowledging that we are all products of randomness. Defectors will not be punished, just isolated.
* Implements scalable solutions to provide post-scarcity standards of living for everyone.
* Performs controlled, iterative testing of competing ideas.
* Records all data about space and time in a single Global Database, open for anyone to read.
* Uses axiomatic logical reasoning to decide on laws. The axioms are maintained collectively. Laws are enforced using Global Database records as evidence.
* Uses energy lost to entropy as the fundamental currency of the economy. Profit does not exist.
We can spread ideas at the speed of light. The viability of unification could be gauged on the order of days with some sort of viral Internet campaign. What if everyone on Earth (with Internet access) answered the question: “would the world be a better place if we all agree to form a world government next Monday?”. The viral campaign must be simple and easy to engage with in order to maximize the number of participants.
The hope is that when enough people agree that a singleton could be better than what we have right now, they can work together to peacefully self-organize. Perhaps start by developing the software system that allows our species to collaboratively converge on some moral axioms.
So, humans of Earth: Would the world be a better place if we all agreed to form a world government next Monday? Please elaborate.