The Forty2 Project
Switching Earth On

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Proper Decision-Making in Communities
for us, by us
where "us" hopefully includes you.

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Goal

To create a self-improving, self-automating community working together to satisfy the members:

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Summary

Achieved by

developing the tools and processes with which decision scenarios can be formalized, enabling the formal analysis, improvement and automation of each step and most importantly, the formal computation of the decisions.
 An illustration to the technique can be how during software development, instead of a manager deciding, a feature is often considered to be completed if the ALM (like JIRA) system computes it so, basing it on the process which computes the value from statuses of sub-features and associated bugs.

"Owned by us, for us" - where "us" is humanity.

Decisions are computed using the goal of “maximum benefit for humanity”
 While this might sound to be an altruistic approach, this in fact is also the most selfish as we, as single individuals benefit the most from an optimal cooperation if it incorporates the most (useful) people. This also ensures that we can't have real competition as we must merge with other groups having similar goals.
 This is also a must: due to the exponential self-improving and automating abilities of the system we are creating, the system will almost surely reach and then quickly surpass the abilities of the smartest humans, the owners of it not needing "us" any more to perform tasks, posing an existential threat to humanity IF owned by an individual/group wanting to benefit only themselves.

This is a vast effort humanity must undertake as soon as possible, to stop and drive the doomsday clock back, to prevent powerful groups using the latest e.g. AI technology to wreak havoc on us; to make our dreams possible, to switch Earth on.

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In practice

Our practical approach

is an incremental development of the community itself, starting with hand-selected members, the basic tools available on the market and a hierarchical management, gradually developing our tools, letting members in and shifting from traditional decision-making to a formal one.
 Due to the self-feedback loop in efficiency (we're improving the tools and methods with which we improve the tools and methods) and that the more members are the more effort is available to attract them, the progress is expected to be double-exponential in some parts at least.

Our outlook

is that after the years of R&D behind us, we as a small team should be gradually rolling out articles, proof of concepts, etc. to attract a little funding and a few dozen of actively contributing members with whom we can lay the foundations down to safely open to the wider public - until the end of 2024.