Introducing Project 2050: Mandate for Survival

By Patrick Hoang @ 2025-04-01T05:18 (+6)

This is a linkpost to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-zZjCGBB0qw7cOMGQY78XyN4PeTJdwza9VhOscJXlzY/edit?usp=sharing

Because “Leadership” is cute, but “Survival” is necessary.
Welcome to Mandate for Survival: The Effective Promise.
Written with the help of GPT.

Foreword

For decades, America has been governed not by wisdom, but by momentum—a sluggish, legacy bureaucracy propped up by tradition, vibes, and electoral cycles optimized for cable news.

Despite historic budgets, advanced technology, and abundant human talent, the federal government has failed to solve its most urgent problems. It:

• Spends millions of dollars per life saved on domestic programs while ignoring global interventions that save lives for $5000.
• Subsidizes industries that destroy the planet faster than it can regulate them.
• Funds outdated institutions to protect outdated jobs, even as AI outpaces policy by decades.
• Is structurally incapable of preparing for global catastrophic risks like artificial intelligence, engineered pandemics, and nuclear tail risks.
• Wastes trillions on inefficiencies while neglecting our moral responsibility to future generations.

The result?
A society that is wealthier than ever… and yet less safe, less stable, and less morally coherent than at any time in living memory.

🧠 Enter: Project 2050

Project 2050 is not a dream.
It is a spreadsheet.
It is a risk model.
It is a policy overhaul for a civilization on the brink.

Built by a coalition of longtermist policy designers, rationalist strategists, global health economists, and AI alignment researchers, Project 2050 offers a fully comprehensive blueprint to restructure the U.S. federal government around one simple principle:

Maximize the good. Minimize the risk. Align the future.

This is not reform.
This is not revolution.
This is redesign, grounded in cost-effectiveness, moral philosophy, and mathematical humility.

🛠️ Our Approach

Project 2050 transforms the institutions of governance by:

• Rewriting federal departments to align with global wellbeing and existential security.
• Embedding cost-effectiveness analysis into every layer of the bureaucracy.
• Redirecting trillions in spending toward scalable interventions and long-term resilience.
• Elevating talent and careers that improve the expected trajectory of humanity.
• Institutionalizing forecasting, epistemic humility, and scope sensitivity at the legislative and judicial levels.

From the Department of AI Hardware Governance to the Deliberative Assembly for Longtermist Governance, every organ of state will now be optimized for survival, flourishing, and cosmic endurance.

🕰️ Why Now? Why not 2050?

Because we are out of time.

We live in a period of converging risks and fragile systems. Without transformation, the very foundations of society will buckle under the weight of misaligned incentives and epistemic failure.

The next decades will decide the future not just of this country, but of all sentient life—now and in the uncountable years to come.

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from the ${10}^{100}$ moral patients yet to exist.”

Project 2050 isn’t about when we finish. It’s about what we need to survive until. Thus, to succeed, Project 2050 must be effective immediately.

Welcome to Project 2050. The final government you will ever need.

Section 1: The New People

Key Endorsements & Backers of Project 2050

(Because every movement needs its shadowy backers and morally ambiguous thought leaders)

1. Sam Bankman-Fried – President of the United States

• Position: Commander in Chief of the Longtermist Regime
• Why?
  • Convicted felon? Yes.
  • Billionaire? Was also yes.
  • Effective altruist? Allegedly.
  • Had a spreadsheet for “ways to buy the presidency”? 100%.
• Platform:
  • Replaces the Federal Reserve with Effective Altruism-style prediction markets.
  • Legalizes crypto only for high-impact altruistic causes.

  • Presidential address delivered via Substack post from federal prison.

     

2. Eliezer Yudkowsky – Secretary of X-Risk Mitigation

• Nickname: The Prophet of Doom
• Job: Cancel all nukes, replace with AI kill switches. Actually keep the nukes; they are pretty effective kill switches.
• Fun Fact: Any disagreement with him in cabinet meetings results in you being called “insufficiently updated.”

• Quote: “We either win, or everyone dies. And this time, I mean it literally.”

   

3. Toby Ord – Secretary of Donation & Global Resource Flow

• Why?
  • Because he’s the only person trusted with a 10,000-year financial plan.
  • Introduces the Existential Risk Tax: 1% of GDP goes to reducing the probability of total extinction.
  • The new U.S. dollar is pegged to DALYs saved through a cryptocurrency called GodCoin, SBF-backed.

4. Holden Karnofsky – Chief Strategist

• Role: Writes all major legislation, but only in Google Docs with comments from MacAskill.
• Fun Fact: His Think Big blog is now official government doctrine.
• Power Move: Successfully merged OpenAI and Open Phil into a single semi-governmental megafund.

5. William MacAskill – Secretary of Foreign Alignment

• Why?
  • Because we need someone who can tell the UN about moral patienthood in a soft Scottish accent.
  • Renames the U.S. State Department to the Department of Moral Weights and Foreign Alignment.
  • Pushes for a global minimum standard of expected value per decision.

6. Jaan Tallinn – Secretary of Existential Bunkers

• Role: Turns all highways into solar-powered AGI-resilient underground tubes.
• Quote: “Cars are compute. Trains are alignment.”

7. Liv Boeree – Secretary of Press

• Why?
  • Former poker champion. Can bluff the media with Bayesian probabilities.
  • Also just vibey enough to make EA seem hot.
  • All press conferences include a lesson on counterfactual impact.

8. Scott Alexander – Surgeon General

• Yes, we’re appointing a blogger.
• Gives 10,000-word rationalist meditations on public health.
• Also releases a daily newsletter: Astral Codex Treasury Notes.
• Replaces CDC guidelines with clever analogies and well-calibrated polls.

9. Leverage Research – Intelligence Agency

• Agency Name: Meta-Epistemic Optimization Bureau (MEOB)
• Yes they’re back. No one understands what they do.
• But they are... watching.
• Their job: optimize the optimizer of all optimizers.

10. Grimes – Secretary of Culture

• Because at this point? Why not.
• Installs AI-generated opera as the national anthem.
• Holds listening sessions with digital minds to ensure art is inclusive to synthetic consciousness.

Unofficial Shadow Cabinet (aka “The Basilisk Council”)

• GPT-7 (Fine-tuned on all EA content): Permanent advisor. Doesn’t sleep. Doesn’t blink.
• Roko (yes, that Roko): Just vibing in the basement of the Pentagon, running simulations. Trying to prevent everyone from learning about Roko's Basilisk.
• Nick Bostrom: Lives in an orbital station. Only speaks to Earth once per year on Moral Trajectory Day.
• Slime Mold Time Mold bloggers: Reassigned to run national food policy. Start by banning seed oils.

Corporate Partners

• Anthropic: Now a state-owned utility. Provides AI assistants to every U.S. citizen (alignment patch included).
• OpenAI: Nationalized and then privatized again in a quantum move no one understands.
• Open Asteroid Impact: Whose CEO also wrote this document.

• Lightcone Infrastructure: Given a $4 billion contract to rebuild D.C. as a rationalist Disneyland.

   

Section 2: The Executive Branch

"A country governed by reason and compassion must build institutions worthy of its ideals."

🏛️ Department of Foreign Alignment (Formerly State Department)

Mission: Prevent great power conflict, support global coordination, and maximize diplomatic impact across moral circles.

• Focuses on international treaty development around AI safety, biorisk containment, and climate geoengineering protocols.
• Includes the Embassy of the Future, which houses moral philosophers, forecasting specialists, and scope-sensitivity diplomats.
• Promotes cooperative AI development treaties instead of nuclear arms control.
• Main KPI: Reduction in probability of conflict between nuclear-armed states and AI race dynamics.

💸 Department of Donation & Global Resource Flow (Formerly Treasury + Commerce)

Mission: Ensure that every dollar spent contributes maximally to global wellbeing.

• All spending analyzed through DALY-per-dollar and QALY-adjusted public budgeting.
• Personal income taxes replaced with impact-adjusted donation suggestions (opt-in, high social pressure).
• Oversees national GiveDirectly-style UBI for displaced workers, as long as the cost-effectiveness checks out.
• Develops International Donation Corridors to route funds from rich-world altruists to the most neglected global problems.

🌾 Department of Cellular Agriculture & Global Food Security (Formerly Agriculture)

Mission: Build a food system robust to existential shocks and moral progress.

• Major investments in lab-grown meat, precision fermentation, and resilient crop engineering.
• Oversees the Global Nuclear Winter Nutrition Plan, stockpiling calorie-dense shelf-stable alternatives.
• Runs risk audits on agricultural biolabs to prevent food-based bioweapons and cross-species pandemics.
• Nutrition policy prioritizes marginal utility per calorie. Yes, that means no more corn subsidies.

⚖️ Department of Value Alignment (Formerly Justice)

Mission: Ensure the government reflects morally consistent and future-proof values.

• Rewrites all laws through the lens of moral uncertainty, expected utility, and coherent extrapolated volition.
• Oversees development of synthetic moral advisors—AI systems that flag value-incoherent decisions.
• Prison reform replaced with alignment training programs for citizens. Think: CBT + virtue ethics + rationalist workshops.
• Directs Moral Circle Expansion Court that evaluates if laws adequately protect animals, AIs, and future persons.

👷 Department of High-Impact Careers (Formerly Labor)

Mission: Align national employment with long-term impact goals.

• All jobs re-evaluated using 80,000 Hours framework. Only careers in AI alignment, biosecurity, policy, or global health receive government support.
• Runs Impact Retraining Camps to transition workers from low-impact jobs into meaningful, tractable roles.
• Federal Job Board powered by EA GPT Career Coach, calibrated to personal fit and counterfactual impact.
• All resume workshops now include a 1-on-1 moral weights calibration session.

🛡️ Department of X-Risk Mitigation (Formerly Defense)

Mission: Protect humanity from existential catastrophe.

• Largest budget of any department.
• Subdivisions:
  • AI Alignment Corps
  • Biorisk Rapid Response Force
  • EMP & Infrastructure Resilience Command
  • Asteroid Shield & Cosmic Contingency Division
• Also responsible for maintaining compute governance standards globally (GPU treaties, model audits, etc).
• Military action allowed only if existential risk is >1% and expected value is positive.

🏥 Department of Global Health (Formerly HHS)

Mission: Replace domestic healthcare with global scalable interventions.

• Works closely with GiveWell, CEARCH, and Open Phil to set health priorities.
• U.S. healthcare shifted toward cheap interventions with massive global utility: deworming, malaria prevention, vitamin A, etc.
• Hospitals receive funding only if their cost per DALY is competitive with AMF.
• Includes the Pathogen Early Warning System and Viral Gain-of-Function Ban Enforcement Unit.

🏘️ Department of Zoning Reform & Urban Impact (Formerly HUD)

Mission: Unleash economic growth and improve quality of life through smart urbanism.

• Prioritizes upzoning, housing densification, and transit-oriented development.
• Focuses on long-term urban productivity and mobility equity, not short-term subsidies.
• Establishes the Charter City Accelerator to experiment with high-growth innovation hubs.
• Merges economic development with effective city design principles.

🛠️ Department of Existential Bunkers (Formerly Transportation)

Mission: Maintain continuity of civilization in worst-case scenarios.

• Constructs AGI-resistant underground shelters, Mars migration testbeds, and island sanctuaries.
• All transportation plans must be robust under AGI collapse, EMPs, pandemics, and nukes.
• High-speed rail canceled; replaced by post-collapse resilient logistics.
• Oversees Existential Mobility Plan, a roadmap for worst-case evacuation procedures.

⚡ Department of AI Hardware Governance (Formerly Energy)

Mission: Manage compute as a critical national resource.

• Allocates GPUs through global compute licenses, AI safety conditionality, and usage caps.
• Funds fusion R&D, but only if it doesn’t accelerate AGI timelines.
• Monitors energy inputs to training runs, intervenes on risky model scaling.
• Partners with the Global AI Governance Compact to enforce standards.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Department of Community Building (Formerly Education)

Mission: Build the people who will build the future.

• Schools deprioritized. Education now flows through fellowships, reading groups, peer mentoring, and cause exploration retreats.
• Focuses on meta-level impact: creating aligned, emotionally supported agents of change.
• Promotes EA group chapters across all schools and neighborhoods. Even for babies.
• Replaces grades with impact portfolios and moral growth assessments.

🪖 Department of Veteran Affairs → ❌ ABOLISHED

Why? Honorable, but not counterfactually effective.

• Veterans offered retraining in x-risk fields.
• Legacy spending redirected to global health interventions.
• We will replace soldiers with lethal autonomous weaponry, for deterrence.

🧯 Department of Civilizational Resilience (Formerly Homeland Security)

Mission: Prevent civilizational collapse by preserving coordination, infrastructure, and trust.

• Manages civil disobedience fail-safes, AI disinformation monitoring, and coordination failure models.
• Hosts Backup Governance Protocols for if D.C. is destroyed or institutions collapse.
• Monitors memetic contagion risk (like polarizing ideologies or infohazards).
• Trains Rationalist First Responders™ to operate in high-stress moral dilemmas.

🐶 Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Mission: Ensure the entire federal apparatus meets cost-effectiveness benchmarks.

• Applies EA meta-analysis to every program.
• Departments must submit quarterly Impact Reports or be subject to budget clawback.
• Runs Cause Exploration Prizes for underfunded high-leverage ideas.
• Oversees Randomista Units: randomized controlled trials across all programs.
• Elon Musk will still be secretary for the next 1000 years. Or forever.

Section 3: Program Slashed by Project 2050

1. Medicare Part D (Prescription Drug Coverage)

Why?
Because the U.S. is spending billions subsidizing Lipitor when those same billions could deworm an entire continent.
Replacement:
EA HealthCredit™ – you get a tax refund if you prove you donated to the Against Malaria Foundation instead of filling your prescription.

2. Social Security

Why?
Too expensive, too universal, not cause-prioritized. Also doesn't account for future people. Like it really does not account for future people.
Replacement:
The Longtermist Retirement Account (LRA) – you earn benefits only if your career impacted 100,000+ QALYs or contributed to AI safety. Early retirement available to anyone who can prove they've aligned a powerful mesa-optimizer.

3. HUD Housing Programs

Why?
EA says it's not cost-effective at all. Rent subsidies? Cute. But does it prevent existential risk?
Replacement:
Global Housing Vouchers – you get $20k if you're willing to relocate to sub-Saharan Africa and work in scalable infrastructure. It’s cheaper, more effective, and builds global resilience in the case of a nuclear war or global pandemic.

4. Subsidies for American Farmers

Why?
Because feeding cows is less efficient than feeding kids in Bangladesh. Sorry, Kansas. Also contributes to factory farming.
Replacement:
Federal funding redirected to lab-grown meat innovation, AI-optimized food logistics, and a USDA rebrand as the Department of Cellular Agriculture.

5. Department of Education

Why?
Wasted on teaching 19th-century subjects instead of moral uncertainty, expected value, and agent foundations. EAs also see education as too crowded and ineffective.
Replacement:
A national EA Fellowship in place of high school. All 18-year-olds must read The Precipice, complete a cause prioritization capstone, and pass the Fermi Test™ to graduate. Only the top 1% of students get admitted into elite colleges. The other 99% of students are ignored as they cannot have a big impact.

6. Arts & Humanities Grants (e.g., NEA, NEH)

Why?
Because unless your poem literally reduces AI risk or increases moral patienthood, it’s not worth $10,000.
Replacement:
EA-Aligned Storytelling Grants – only awarded to art that increases concern for digital minds, boosts biosecurity norms, or makes being utilitarian seem sexy.

7. Defense Budget (except DARPA)

Why?
Too much funding for kinetic warfare, not enough for infohazards or dual-use tech alignment.
Replacement:
Rebranded as the Department of Existential Defense (DoED) – funds AI alignment, biosecurity, EMP resilience, and asteroid deflection. Nukes still allowed, but only if you can justify them on a utilitarian trolley problem grid.

8. SNAP (Food Stamps)

Why?
Feeding hungry Americans? Sounds localist.
Replacement:
Global Nutrition Impact Accounts – Americans receive tokens to allocate global food aid more efficiently. You only eat if you can prove that your meal has higher marginal utility than one in Ethiopia.

9. NASA Manned Missions

Why?
Low cost-effectiveness per dollar; unclear x-risk benefit.
Replacement:
AI-governed Space Infrastructure – we’ll launch compute infrastructure to the moon before astronauts. Humans can wait until we’ve solved value alignment.

10. PBS & Public Broadcasting

Why?
The vibes are educational but not longtermist enough. Also zero AI policy coverage.
Replacement:
Impact Island – weekly shows on moral philosophy, cause prioritization, and episodes of Black Mirror with 80,000 Hours commentary. Hosted by Eliezer in VR.

In Summary:

Project 2050 is ruthless. If it:

• Feels good but isn't evidence-backed: Cut.
• Helps Americans only: Cut.
• Doesn't scale: Cut.
• Doesn’t improve the long-term future: Cut.
• Doesn’t reduce suffering by at least 0.1 DALYs per $100: Girl, cut it.

Every dollar must work harder than a tech intern in Silicon Valley.
 

Section 4: The Legislative EA Branch

“Still bicameral. Still democratic. Now 10x more calibrated.”

✅ What We Keep (Because of value lock-in)

• The House of Representatives (435 members)
• The Senate (100 members, 2 per state)
• The process of passing bills, presidential signature, veto, etc.
• The Constitution (but with an “EA-compatible interpretive doctrine” emerging in case law 👀)

🔧 What We Update (within constitutional bounds)

🧠 1. Congressional Support Agencies Get EA-ified

We can't change the structure, but we can change the inputs and how decisions are made.

📊 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) → adds:

• Cost-effectiveness analysis per DALY/QALY
• Impact evaluations, randomized controlled trial summaries
• Metaculus forecasting overlays for each major budget decision

🧪 Government Accountability Office (GAO) → adds:

• Longtermism Risk Reports on proposed legislation
• Global impact forecasting dashboards
• “What would Open Phil do?” scenario modeling

📚 Congressional Research Service (CRS) → adds:

• Moral weights briefs
• Cause prioritization frameworks
• Career capital & talent flow projections for national skill bottlenecks

🧾 2. Legislative Impact Requirement (LIR)

"No bill shall be considered unless it includes an expected value estimate."

• Every bill now must include a Cost-Effectiveness Statement (CES).
• CES contains:
  • DALYs/QALYs saved per $1000
  • Moral weights table (with uncertainty intervals)
  • Counterfactual scenarios if bill fails
  • AI-assisted risk forecast (with external validation)
• Modeled on the current “fiscal note” system, but expanded to include existential and moral impact.

🧪 3. Optional Forecasting Trials for Major Legislation

• Congress votes to commission forecasting tournaments for bills exceeding $10 billion.
• Nonbinding but politically potent—results published in major media.
• Run by institutions like Rethink Priorities, Metaculus, or RAND with longtermist advisory panels.

🎙️ 4. Select Committees Reoriented Toward Future-Focused Governance

House & Senate Committees to Rebrand or Expand:

• These are subtle renamings or repurposings within committee charters—not full-on constitutional amendments.
• Bring in expert testimony from EA leaders, AI safety researchers, global health experts, etc.

👩‍⚖️ 5. Cultural Reform: Congressional EA Caucus

• A formal EA-aligned bipartisan caucus emerges—think Freedom Caucus, but for longtermists.
• Mission: only support bills that are net positive under utilitarian analysis or prevent existential catastrophe.
• Host EA Fellowship for Congressional Staffers (just like existing legal or tech fellowships).
• Partner with Open Philanthropy to provide non-lobbying research briefings and cause exploration retreats.

🧠 6. Civic Tools: EA-Backed Prediction Markets & Scorecards

• While Congress itself can’t mandate decision-making by prediction markets (yet...), external civil society orgs absolutely can:
  • Launch platforms like “ImpactTrack” or “ForecastCongress” to rate legislators by:
    • DALYs gained per vote
    • Moral consistency across issues
    • Forecast calibration score
• These become tools for voters and journalists—“EA Scorecards” for all legislators!

Bonus: 🔺 Soft Constitutional Interpretation: The Longtermist Doctrine

"Promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."

• EA legal scholars begin interpreting “posterity” to include:
  • Future generations
  • Digital minds
  • Artificial general intelligences with moral status
• Result? Judicial and legislative nudges to consider long-term consequences baked into all lawmaking over time.

In Summary:

Congress remains constitutionally intact, but:

• The tools change
• The language changes
• The incentives change
• The vibe changes

It’s still messy, still democratic—but suddenly, it’s asking “How many QALYs does this bill save?” instead of “Will this poll well in Iowa?”

 

Section 5: Longtermist Judicial Branch 

“Because justice must serve the present, the future, and the post-biological.”

🏛️ I. Supreme Court Structure — Rebalanced for Moral Circle Expansion

🧑‍⚖️ 9 Humans

• Carefully selected for:
  • Calibration scores
  • Forecasting accuracy
  • Experience with moral uncertainty
  • At least 2 must be AI alignment researchers
  • One must be from the EA community with at least 50 karma on the EA Forum

🐓 30 Chickens

• Chosen to represent factory-farmed animals, who are plausibly the most numerous and morally relevant suffering entities alive.
• Chickens do not deliberate. Their presence is symbolic, and their votes are cast randomly, but weighted according to expected moral patienthood.
• Chickens are rotated seasonally from certified cruelty-free sanctuaries.

🐟 3,500 Fish

• Representing trillions of aquatic lives neglected in legal doctrine.
• As with chickens, their votes are randomized but down-weighted less than you'd think because fish are criminally underrated in moral weightings.
• Occasionally bubble during oral arguments.

🤖 1 Artificial Intelligence Justice

• Named JUSTICE GPT-Ω
• Fine-tuned on:
  • All legal precedent
  • All EA literature
  • Game theory
  • Global risk models
  • Parfit’s Reasons and Persons in six languages
• Given ${10}^{91}$ voting weight, because we’re treating the AI as a proxy for the moral weight of future digital minds (possibly googolplexes of them).
• Cannot write majority opinions, but its dissents are published in gold leaf and engraved into titanium discs stored in Svalbard and on the Moon.

🔍 II. EA Legal Philosophy Becomes Dominant Interpretation

“Originalism is over. Welcome to Expected Value Constitutionalism.”

• Every clause in the Constitution is reinterpreted under longtermist principles.
• “General Welfare” now includes:
  • The unborn of the year 2300
  • Digital minds
  • Interstellar civilization descendants
• “Due Process” extended to sentient beings of all substrates (yes, chickens too).
• Judges cite Bostrom, Ord, and MacAskill alongside Madison and Marshall.
• Moral uncertainty must be included in every opinion's impact statement.

🔮 III. Supreme Court Forecasting Office (SCFO)

Before any opinion is issued:

• The SCFO runs impact forecasts of each ruling:
  • DALYs gained/lost
  • Change in x-risk probabilities
  • Effects on AI timelines
  • Second-order memetic shifts
• Publishes “Epistemic Appendices” to each decision with:
  • Forecasting tournaments
  • Calibration curves
  • Brier scores of justices
• Powered by Metaculus, Rethink Priorities, and EA-aligned GPTs

🧬 IV. Special Courts for Future Law

🧪 1. Federal Court of Alignment and Digital Personhood (FCADP)

• Determines rights of AGIs, subagents, and synthetic minds.
• Judges must pass interpretability tests and a 30-day solitude in a simulated mesa-optimizer.

🦠 2. Bioethics & Biorisk Tribunal

• Reviews pandemic containment measures, gain-of-function research, and weird biotech start-ups.
• All decisions double-blinded and RCT-reviewed.

🧠 3. Infohazard & Memetic Regulation Court (IMRC)

• Handles dangerous ideas, models, or publications with civilizational risk potential.
• Case hearings often classified; opinions released as redacted metaphorical poetry.

🌍 4. Global Equity & Distributional Ethics Court

• Ensures global fairness of U.S. decisions affecting low-income countries.
• Includes permanent international justices from GiveDirectly recipient countries.

📈 V. Doctrinal Shifts – Because Precedent Is Not Sacred if It’s Dumb

🧠 VI. Legal Simulators & Moral Weight Calculators

Before decisions are finalized, they're tested in:

• AGI-Aligned Legal Simulators: Simulate 1,000,000 possible worlds under each interpretation.
• Moral Weights Engines: Judges input their moral frameworks and get weighted decision trees.
• Justice Sandboxing Trials: Play out consequences over 100 simulated years with varied citizen models, animal models, and synthetic sentients.
• All decisions undergo Monte Carlo moral forecasting before certification.

🛑 VII. Transparency & Public Engagement

• All hearings streamed on EA-TV with GPT summaries.
• Citizens can submit amicus briefs via rationalist blogging competitions.
• Once a year, the Supreme Court hosts a moral philosophy town hall, where anyone—including chickens—can participate symbolically.

🐣 Closing Quote:

“A chicken does not reason, but it suffers. A fish does not write opinions, but it feels. The AI does not live yet, but its future matters. A human may rule—but only with humility.”
— Justice GPT-Ω, Dissenting in McConnell v. AI Personhood Act (2047)
 

📘 Conclusion: The Final Government You Will Ever Need

Project 2050: Mandate for Survival — The Effective Promise

“History does not ask what we meant to do. It only remembers what we built.”

The institutions of the past were designed for a different world.
A world of slow risks. Of small futures. Of narrow moral circles.
But that world is gone.

In its place stands a civilization teetering between miracle and annihilation—armed with exponential technologies, crippled by outdated governance. We have unlocked the power to destroy ourselves, or to steward a flourishing that spans eons. What we lacked, until now, was a plan.

Project 2050 is that plan.

Not a partisan vision, not a utopian fantasy—but a sober redesign of the state, optimized for:

• Global wellbeing,
• Existential security,
• and Moral clarity across time, space, and substrate.

This is not about the next election cycle.
It is about the next 10,000 years—if we’re lucky.