Libertarian Utopia
An inherited Life 3.0 scenario · Also shown as Open Frontier
Property rights organize coexistence among biological and artificial beings.
Life under this arrangement
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
- Distributed owners and institutions; human final control is not assured.
- Benefits and ownership
- Property and exchange organize access; no universal material floor is specified.
- Human and digital status
- Biological humans coexist with transformed and artificial beings.
- Technical premises
- Advanced intelligence and peaceful contractual coexistence are hypothetical premises.
- Attractions
- Many ways of living and producing may coexist.
- Costs and objections
- Unequal bargaining power can make formally voluntary contracts hard to refuse.
- Not specified
- Exit enforcement, equal political standing and remedies for extreme dependency.
Earlier project summary and extension
Humans and increasingly capable AI systems coexist under property rights and markets, with no central controller. Capability spreads to whoever can pay for or download it.
Preserved from the earlier project catalogue. This is project interpretation, not a source quotation or an extra matching descriptor. Where its extension differs from the original premise, the source distinction above governs.
All authored features used in comparison
These are editorial descriptors, independent of the historical map. Unspecified and variant-dependent properties remain unresolved when matching preferences.
- Practical human governing authority
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Different kinds of owners coexist; the project leaves their relative governing authority open.
- Revisable governing mandates
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people can effectively replace governing mandates.
- A practical right to leave
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether people have a usable right to leave.
- Several self-governing communities
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether several communities govern themselves.
- A guaranteed material floor
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether everyone receives a guaranteed material floor.
- Private ownership of productive resources
- Present
Private ownership organizes production
Linked source premise. The linked Libertarian Utopia premise makes property rights central to coexistence.
- Continuing biological humanity
- Present
Biological humanity continues
Linked source premise. The linked premise includes biological humans alongside other beings.
- Others’ choice to transform themselves
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether feasible substantial transformation is legally permitted.
- Standing for artificial persons
- Variant-dependent
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 capabilities
- Unspecified
The scenario leaves this condition unspecified
Unresolved. The scenario does not say whether institutions enforce a ceiling on selected capabilities.
- Visible exercise of governing power
- Unspecified
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
- Variant-dependent
Depends on the variant; no single answer
Unresolved. Contractual exchange can sustain independent providers or concentrated dependencies; neither is guaranteed.
Compare the institutional difference
Origin and source status
Original concept: Max Tegmark, Life 3.0 (2017), chapter 5. The short premise is paraphrased from FLI’s reference. Life, institutions and feature descriptors are this project’s editorial interpretation, not additional claims from the book.
- AI Aftermath Scenarios · Libertarian Utopia row; Life 3.0, chapter 5
Inherited concept · Checked 2026-09-11
IR Worldview Inventory · AI-assisted editorial draft · futures-catalogue-0.3. Attribution does not imply endorsement. No current-development or community-attribution claim is inferred from this entry.