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
Residents can move between communities under an agreed mobility regime. Some communities use AI rule, others human government. Disputes about borders and shared dangers do not disappear.
Imagine work, care and invention organized through contracts among beings with very different capabilities. Access to productive resources becomes a central political question.
Practical authority
Several polities, with different internal constitutions.
Distributed owners and institutions; human final control is not assured.
Benefits and costs
Different communities and practical movement between them. Coordination, border disputes and unequal community resources.
Many ways of living and producing may coexist. Unequal bargaining power can make formally voluntary contracts hard to refuse.
Practical human governing authority
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Human final authority depends on the internal constitution; it is not guaranteed throughout this arrangement.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Different kinds of owners coexist; the project leaves their relative governing authority open.
Revisable governing mandatesDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The power to replace governing mandates depends on the institutional settlement; it is not guaranteed.
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. The authored mobility regime explicitly lets residents move between communities.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
Several self-governing communitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
Several communities exercise their own rule
Additional project hypothetical. Several self-governing human and machine polities are the defining authored premise.
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.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
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.
Private ownership organizes production
Linked source premise. The linked Libertarian Utopia premise makes property rights central to coexistence.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. Biological humans remain participants alongside artificial persons.
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans alongside other beings.
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. The authored federation includes artificial persons as political participants, with differing internal constitutions.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Coexistence and property rights do not settle shared political standing for artificial persons.
Enforced limits on selected capabilitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Capability restrictions depend on the governing settlement; no uniform ceiling or absence of a ceiling is guaranteed.
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. Named polities openly negotiate borders and movement; the project reads their governing roles as visible, without assuming all operations are disclosed.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people know who exercises governing power.
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. Contractual exchange can sustain independent providers or concentrated dependencies; neither is guaranteed.
Open questions
A common enforcement body and the rights of children or those unable to move.
Exit enforcement, equal political standing and remedies for extreme dependency.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Human–Machine Federation sources or Libertarian Utopia sources.