Compare two futures
Who governs, who benefits, and which terms remain open?
Compare any two entries. Their differences are editorial descriptions, not distances on a common scale.
Life and institutions
People and artificial persons share political institutions. Cheap copying and unequal speed or scale force arguments about representation, obligations and what counts as one citizen.
Material provision need not depend on owning scarce productive assets. Political disputes shift toward allocation, participation and how different ways of life share common resources.
Practical authority
Shared institutions of biological and artificial citizens; human-only final authority is not guaranteed.
The source premise does not settle the final governing institution.
Benefits and costs
Recognition and exit for beings the premise treats as persons. Copying and unequal capacity complicate equal representation.
A material floor independent of private productive wealth. Collective allocation can constrain private projects; disagreements over contribution persist.
Practical human governing authorityDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Human final authority depends on the internal constitution; it is not guaranteed throughout this arrangement.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether humans retain practical final governing authority.
Revisable governing mandates
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
A practical right to leaveDifferent or incomplete terms
People have a practical exit right
Additional project hypothetical. Exit alongside citizenship is expressly part of the authored premise.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
Several self-governing communities
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
A guaranteed material floorDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
Material provision is guaranteed broadly
Linked source premise. The linked Egalitarian Utopia premise expressly includes guaranteed income.
Private ownership of productive resourcesDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
Production is organized without private ownership
Linked source premise. The linked premise abolishes property; productive ownership is included in that abolition.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. Biological citizens remain alongside artificial persons.
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans in the continuing society.
Others’ choice to transform themselvesDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Transformation rules depend on the settlement; neither permission nor prohibition is guaranteed.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
Standing for artificial personsDifferent or incomplete terms
Artificial persons have recognized standing
Additional project hypothetical. Standing and representation for hypothetical artificial persons define this project scenario.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
Enforced limits on selected capabilities
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
Visible exercise of governing powerDifferent or incomplete terms
People know who exercises governing power
Project editorial inference. The project reads shared citizenship and representation as acknowledged institutions; it does not infer public access to every decision.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The project leaves the governing arrangement, including the visibility of its power, open.
Practical independence from a technical provider
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Infrastructure may offer practical alternatives or create an indispensable provider; the settlement does not fix this.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Common provisioning does not determine whether infrastructure has practical alternatives.
Open questions
Voting rules, resource entitlements and the treatment of divergent copies.
Practical human control, exit and rights for artificial persons.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Digital Citizenship sources or Egalitarian Utopia sources.