A strategy conversation that runs the Unsingularity Voices session through the team's standard discovery questions (what is it / who cares / who is involved / what changes / what is the proof / what makes it real).
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Backcasting the 2028 "unsingularity" milestone โ 42 assemblies giving the whole planet, and nature, a deliberative voice.
A backcasting / futures-visioning session set on February 2nd, 2028, in which the team imagines a milestone where the "unsingularity" has been achieved and earned respect: a planetary governance structure of 42 assemblies, 42 regions and 42 sub-regions, bringing human and non-human actors together to deliberate. Working through a structured question sequence โ Who cares? Who is involved? What has changed? What proof is it working? How do you know it's becoming real? โ the group sketches a bottom-up, playful "claim your assembly" interface (a vibe-code IDE.earth globe), a network of grassroots eco-village nodes such as Pulmon Verde in Mexico, and partnerships with citizens-assembly NGOs, Model UN, Rotary, scouts, student unions and indigenous communities. The decisive shift they describe is from a bleak, centralised, token-and-model-controlled sentiment toward one where genuinely representative, cheap, fast deliberation lets the planet ask hard questions (e.g. "should we stop digging oil out of the ground?") and get sincere, skin-in-the-game answers. They tie outcomes to trust graphs ("Genesis trust graphs" that fold into one another), pledge-verification, and locally-decided "quest items," all in the playful Hitchhiker / Game of 42 idiom (mice, global game jam, gladiatorial democracy, the babble fish, Deep Thought, future grandparents, aliens and nature as participants).
Questions
Key points
- The 2028 milestone: by Feb 2, 2028 the unsingularity structure of 42 assemblies / 42 regions / 42 sub-regions has earned respect as a meaningful, potentially real way to govern Earth with human and non-human actors.
- Who cares: nature and aliens care for the first time; plus liquid-democracy / citizens-assembly people, legal-personhood-of-nature and deep-ecology thinkers, environmentalists, Gen Z, the UN/UNESCO, and (hot take) every victim of the fall of the American empire and unrecognised nations seeking a deliberate path to ownership.
- Bottom-up by design: success must be grassroots, not top-down; people claim their biome/assembly with a legitimacy test (you're actually from here), iterating zone boundaries through playful recurring hackathons.
- IDE.earth interface: a vibe-code globe you can spin to claim a bottom-up assembly, debate and reshift the gerrymandered zone algorithms, message other assemblies, and give the whole planet a voice for the first time.
- Nodes & partners: eco-villages like Pulmon Verde (Mexico) as education/wisdom nodes (registering a tree, walks, kids and tourists leaving with their own credentials); plus a citizens-assembly NGO (ran one online with ~400 people), Model UN, Rotary clubs, scouts, model courts, student unions, indigenous groups, and 50,000 grandmas.
- What's changed = sentiment + representation: from bleak centralisation to hope; the singularity becomes embarrassing to talk about; representation, plus the cheapness and speed of consultation, fundamentally improves.
- Deliberation, not survey: a year-long, ~15-meeting, selected-and-trust-graphed assembly deliberating with nature, aliens and future grandparents produces thoughtful answers you can listen to (translated via the babble fish), unlike scroll-tap polls.
- Skin in the game via trust graphs: decisions become Genesis trust graphs that overlap and fold together; pledges are verified by hours actually spent; unfulfilled pledges lower identity/reputation; funding follows teams that deliver; local constitutions spawn new optional quest items in your local trust graph.
- Proof it's working: you can mention it at dinner without laughing or being met with bafflement; indigenous people sign up; assemblies produce immediate, measurable real-world change interviewees get emotional about (before Deep Thought happens); metrics on demographics and science.
Action items
- Build the IDE.earth claim-your-assembly globe interface โ spin, claim a biome, debate/reshift zone algorithms, message between sub-assemblies.
- Run playful bottom-up hackathons / a global game jam to iterate the regional partitioning and tooling.
- Provide coordination tools and guidance so grassroots eco-villages can talk on a more global scale (Zoom calls, government liaison, anyone offering a guide).
- Onboard Pulmon Verde as an education/wisdom node: tree registration, guided walks, kids/tourists leaving with their own credentials system.
- Partner with the citizens-assembly NGO (already ran ~400-person online assembly), Model UN, Rotary, scouts, model courts, student unions and indigenous communities.
- Issue a call for representatives from every university / student union to host a gathering.
- Instrument outcomes as Genesis trust graphs with verified pledges, hours-spent tracking, and funding allocated on delivery.
- Surface locally-decided quest items in each participant's local trust graph (optional to do, not optional to appear).
- Run a flagship deliberative question (e.g. should we stop digging oil out of the ground?) through a year-long selected assembly and publish listenable, babble-fish-translated reasoning plus demographic/scientific metrics.
See
- Workshop Videos
- Video Template