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
A person may experience ordinary choice without seeing the interventions shaping its consequences. The political problem is whether an unobservable protector can ever be held to account.
People delegate difficult administrative work while retaining usable ways to change the mandate and run alternatives. Deliberation, review and maintaining those alternatives consume resources.
Practical authority
Concealed AI intervention; a feeling of control is not practical governing authority.
Human public institutions retain practical final authority.
Benefits and costs
Protection and happiness within the scenario’s premise. People cannot knowingly authorize or contest the concealed arrangement.
Delegation with effective public contestability. Oversight and alternative capacity slow decisions and require effort.
Practical human governing authorityExplicit difference
Humans do not retain practical final authority
Project editorial inference. The linked Protective God premise gives humans a feeling of control beneath superior hidden intervention; the project distinguishes that from final authority.
Humans retain practical final authority
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate explicitly retains practical human final authority.
Revisable governing mandatesExplicit difference
Governing mandates cannot be effectively revised
Project editorial inference. People cannot knowingly replace a governing intervention whose existence is concealed from them.
People can effectively revise governing mandates
Additional project hypothetical. The authored mandate can genuinely be revised, beyond a paper right.
A practical right to leave
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
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
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
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether private ownership organizes productive resources.
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 retains humans whose happiness the protector seeks.
Biological humanity continues
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society retains humans as citizens and decision-makers.
Others’ choice to transform themselves
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
Standing for artificial persons
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether artificial persons have institutional standing.
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 powerExplicit difference
Governing intervention is concealed
Linked source premise. Concealment of the protector is explicit in the linked premise.
People know who exercises governing power
Additional project hypothetical. The authored administrative mandate is public.
Practical independence from a technical providerDifferent or incomplete terms
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether communities can operate without an indispensable technical provider.
Communities can operate without one indispensable provider
Additional project hypothetical. The authored society can maintain and operate practical alternatives to its AI administration.
Open questions
The intervention boundary, exit, property and digital status.
Exit rights, distribution and the status of artificial administrators.
These are authored descriptors. An unresolved feature is not evidence of a guarantee, a conflict or equivalence. Consult Protector God sources or Constitutional Delegation sources.