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
Imagine work, care and invention organized through contracts among beings with very different capabilities. Access to productive resources becomes a central political question.
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.
Practical authority
Distributed owners and institutions; human final control is not assured.
Several polities, with different internal constitutions.
Benefits and costs
Many ways of living and producing may coexist. Unequal bargaining power can make formally voluntary contracts hard to refuse.
Different communities and practical movement between them. Coordination, border disputes and unequal community resources.
Practical human governing authority
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Different kinds of owners coexist; the project leaves their relative governing authority open.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Human final authority depends on the internal constitution; it is not guaranteed throughout this arrangement.
Revisable governing mandatesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The power to replace governing mandates depends on the institutional settlement; it is not guaranteed.
A practical right to leaveDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
People have a practical exit right
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mobility regime explicitly lets residents move between communities.
Several self-governing communitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
Several communities exercise their own rule
Additional project hypothetical. Several self-governing human and machine polities are the defining authored premise.
A guaranteed material floorDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Provision can vary with the settlement; a universal material floor is not guaranteed.
Private ownership of productive resourcesDifferent or incomplete terms
Private ownership organizes production
Linked source premise. The linked Libertarian Utopia premise makes property rights central to coexistence.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. The economic settlement may use private or common productive ownership.
Continuing biological humanity
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans alongside other beings.
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. Biological humans remain participants alongside artificial persons.
Others’ choice to transform themselvesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Transformation rules depend on the settlement; neither permission nor prohibition is guaranteed.
Standing for artificial personsDifferent or incomplete terms
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Coexistence and property rights do not settle shared political standing for artificial persons.
Artificial persons have recognized standing
Additional project hypothetical. The authored federation includes artificial persons as political participants, with differing internal constitutions.
Enforced limits on selected capabilitiesDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
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.
Visible exercise of governing powerDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people know who exercises governing power.
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.
Practical independence from a technical provider
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Contractual exchange can sustain independent providers or concentrated dependencies; neither is guaranteed.
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Infrastructure may offer practical alternatives or create an indispensable provider; the settlement does not fix this.
Open questions
Exit enforcement, equal political standing and remedies for extreme dependency.
A common enforcement body and the rights of children or those unable to move.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Libertarian Utopia sources or Human–Machine Federation sources.