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• 08:10, 31 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Community α - Entry and exit (Created page with "{{InitialStateImportanceInfobox8VeryHigh}} = Overview = As the community begins we understand it is an experiment and a form of living very different to what most people have grown up with, and that members may decide that it is not what they wish to continue being involved in. Resources will also be limited so support for people leaving will likely not exist. For this reason the entry requirements for the earliest members will likely allow for prior owned assets to r...")
• 07:58, 31 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Community α - Economy (Created page with "{{InitialStateImportanceInfobox5Moderate}} = Overview = The initial economy of {{CommunityAlphaName}} will focus on achieving Self-sufficiency while creating a healthy life for it's members. Resources will most likely be limited and the primary goal of initial members will be to generate income for the community, this income can be used to increase assets to support new members and to pay for needed goods and services from outside the commu...")
• 03:53, 30 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Community α - Stages of development (Created page with "{{InitialStateImportanceInfobox6High}} = Overview = The stages of development for {{CommunityAlphaName}} are designed to create a robust and strong community ready to function effectively with Self governance and be an example to wider society. In order to do this a Strong work ethic will need to be employed, especially in the early stages, many of the initial state rules will be designed to ensure that the community is as Productiv...")
• 12:43, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Community α - Overview (Created page with "Pages beginning with 'Community α' describe the initial state of one {{CommunityMainName}}, the community being proposed is located in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. This definition of a proposed community does not indicate what an {{CommunityMainName}} must do, as long as a community adheres to the projects primary concept of Self governance if could be considered inline with what project is trying to achieve. If interested in becoming involved in {{CommunityAlph...")
• 12:26, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Survival of the fittest (Created page with "= Overview = Evolution is based on the idea that the strongest will survive and procreate while the weak will not. Human beings have evolved with animal natures that have served us to become the dominant species on the planet however as societies become larger and more complex, and technology more destructive, the competitiveness that rose humans up risks being our downfall. As humans have become more enlightened we have developed values...")
• 11:57, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Living healthy lives (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox5Moderate}} = Overview = It makes sense that a community would want it's members to live healthy lives, the Scientific method can be employed to create rules that return outcomes that increases the health of members. Human nature often pushes people to act in unhealthy ways, this is not good for them but also for the community as it reduces happiness, Productive time management|...")
• 11:46, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Entering and exiting a community (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox2Low}} = Overview = An {{CommunityMainName}} is not a community that forces people to stay, we wish to create A template for society and the Socratic method guides us to understand the rules implemented might not be the best for all people. Out of Kindness and respect to all members a supportive path to leaving a community should be created, with consideration to the resources the community loses in...")
• 09:53, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Allocated procreation (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox1VeryLow}} = Overview = The goals of socially controlled child bearing are: * Allow the community to implement systems of support for child rearing without over-strained community resources * Reduce frustration and unhappiness of finding a mate and committing to life long marriage contracts * Reinforce the removal of concentrations of power * Reduce Greed and materialism associated with...")
• 09:00, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Allocated sexual activity (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox1VeryLow}} = Overview = The goal of having socially controlled allocated sexual activity is to reduce frustration and unhappiness that result from the competitive mating process and life long sexual contracts, to reinforce the removal of concentrations of power, and to allow community members to focus on the goals of the community. Any...")
• 03:29, 29 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Personal freedom (Created page with "= Overview = Modern western cultures claim to value freedom of choice as a primary right society should strive for. Historically and in many eastern cultures patriarchal control of a subjects role in society, tasks they do and who they can mate with has been a method to maintain stability and peace. = Is freedom a requirement = Personal freedom is an abstract concept, it will mean different things to different people, with a lot of biases and irrational thought surrou...")
• 09:00, 28 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Marriage and children (Created page with "= Overview = Most people wish to have children at some stage in their lives, as humans evolved the union of a couple to procreate and rear a child has been the most natural way to accomplish this. Often child rearing has been supported by other family members and in modern times by socialized systems such as child-care facilities. An {{CommunityMainName}} can approach marriage in any way the community chooses and while Respecting the host society does not need to...")
• 12:46, 27 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Sexual relationships (Created page with "= Overview = Sexual animal natures are some of the strongest drives peoples experience, for obvious reasons humans crave finding partners to mate with, during initial stages it is driven by the bodies desire to have sex, over time it normally morphs into a desire to have children. = Frustration = Both men and women develop feelings of frustration when they desire but are denied sex, with men feeling highe...")
• 11:39, 27 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Altruistic community (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox2Low}} = Overview = An {{CommunityMainName}} that focuses on altruism creates rules that reduce inequalities in the community and reinforces Kindness and respect for others. Ensuring that all members pull their weight will be an important aspect of an altruistic community, members can enact rules that make sure lazy members do not take advantage of members who have a Strong work ethic. = Related concepts = * Allocation of community...")
• 11:20, 27 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Competition vs altruism (Created page with "= Overview = An {{CommunityMainName}} could choose what levels of competitiveness or altruism it builds into it's rules. = Competition = Competition means some members win and some lose, what that means would be up to the community. Competition can be used as a way to push members to achieve the best outcomes, for example aggressive allocations of tokens according to performance, the level that winners profit and losers suffer up to the community....")
• 15:40, 26 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page The animal nature of humans (Created page with "= Overview = All humans are naturally driven by urges that have served us to become the dominant form of life. As humans became more intelligent, enlightened, and the struggle for survival less difficult, many natural instincts became detrimental, over history methods have been developed to mitigate their control, but they still exist and drive our behaviour. The {{CommunityMainName}} attempts to create an ideal community based on Self governance in the hope to sol...")
• 12:34, 26 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Greed and materialism (Created page with "= Overview = One of the strongest animal natures humans have is greed, the desire to accumulate and to value things we possess more than our kindness to others and what we create. The quest for accumulation is woven into almost every aspect of modern society and in times of stability does not make people happy. Like all The animal nature of humans|animal nature...")
• 11:37, 26 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Self-sufficiency (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox7High}} = Overview = Although an {{CommunityMainName}} must obey the rules of it's host society, as much as it is able to do so it should strive to be self sufficient. The more the community can be controlled by it's own Self governance the stronger it will be and the better positioned to be a template for society. = Consumption = As much internal consumption as possible should be created within the c...")
• 11:05, 26 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Allocation of community resources (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox8VeryHigh}} = Overview = For members of the community to make good decisions and carry out effective issue resolution there should be a high level of access to information about the community and all community activity. For effective self governance and truth seeking Transparency should be considered a high priority. The level of transparency can be decided on by each community, for example every action of all members, including conversations,...")
• 10:55, 26 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Token economy (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox6High}} = Overview = In order for communities to achieve Self-sufficiency and develop an economy that is not dependent on external power structures a method of rewarding tasks and popular activities can be created and managed by the community. A token currency could be implemented, all aspects of which are determined by Self governance. = Distribution of wealth = Wealth in a capitalistic society is a pr...")
• 09:32, 26 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Productive time management (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox3Low}} = Overview = The community can vote on how members time is allocated between community determined tasks, individual chosen tasks, and relaxation time. = Community Tasks = These are tasks that the community requires to be done, members are rewarded tokens according to the demand to do the task and measurable outcomes, less popular tasks or members who achieve better results will be given more tokens. = Individual Tasks = These periods...")
• 13:53, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Kindness and respect (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox7High}} = Overview = Life is complicated and differing opinions and beliefs are to be encouraged in a community that follows the Scientific method in decision making and humility in not assuming any of us understand absolute truth. Respecting other peoples thoughts and acts, as long as they adhere to the rules of the community, should be encouraged. When a high level of Transparency...")
• 13:16, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Inequality is the goal (Created page with "= Overview = Power does not exist if everyone has the same power. Wealth does not exist if all have the same wealth. It is our animal nature to raise higher than others, this can easily manifest in evil acts as people Justifying evil acts in their pursuit to have more than people around them. Like most animal natures that evolved for survival in harsh conditions, in times of abundance for good people this pursuit does not What makes...")
• 12:48, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Enforcement of rules (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox6High}} = Overview = Rules and the punishments for breaking them are decided by the Voting system, when someone breaks a rule punishment needs to be enforced. There are different steps in this process, each of which is decided by the community, they include investigation, analysis of evidence, judgement and enforcement. Each of these steps creates a position of power that can be corrupted, to mitigate this the communit...")
• 12:28, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Category:Reasonings (Created page with "Attempts to show some thought processes behind Concepts and Initial states.")
• 12:26, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Category:Initial states (Created page with "List of possible initial rules and processes an {{CommunityMainName}} could implement.")
• 12:25, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Category:Concepts (Created page with "List of concepts are goals a community can strive to achieve.")
• 12:24, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Justifying evil acts (Created page with "= Overview = Humans often create justifications for evil behavior, either to themselves to alleviate guilt of the act, or to others to convince them the behavior was not evil. = Self justification = Is a common coping mechanism people have to let go of guilt associated with their behavior, for example parents feeding their children junk food, addicts finding reasons for their actions, or people whose livelihood comes from a source they know does evil clutching to reas...")
• 03:42, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Community size in relation to self governance (Created page with "= Overview = The goal of {{CommunityMainName}} is to create large scale Self governance based on direct democracy as an alternative to existing power structures that govern large populations. Effective direct democracy on a large scale has never been tested, smaller scale implementations have, such as co-ops and other community organizations. Self governance with a small community is different to that of a large population, biases, personal relationships, gree...")
• 03:18, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Stages of community development (Created page with "= Overview = An {{CommunityMainName}} can design into it's Initial state stages of development where different levels of self governance or other concepts are applied. = Benevolent dictator/s = {{CommunityMainNamePlural}} might be created by a driven leader who organizes the starting conditions of the community and holds veto power over communal decisions until a condition is met, such as a quorum (minium number) of members. = Governance system cha...")
• 03:10, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs deleted page Initial state (incorrectly named)
• 03:10, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Initial states (Created page with "= Overview = Self governance is a core concept of {{CommunityMainNamePlural}} and part of that concept are processes where the community can shape the rules under which it functions. When starting a community it will need to have rules, its initial state, that can then be changed by the community according to it's voting methods, which in turn were initially implemented by the initial state. Each community will have it's own way of creating the initial state, and...")
• 03:06, 25 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Initial state (Created page with "= Overview = Self governance is a core concept of {{CommunityMainNamePlural}} and part of that concept are processes where the community can shape the rules under which it functions. When starting a community it will need to have rules, its initial state, that can then be changed by the community according to it's voting methods, which in turn were initially implemented by the initial state. Each community will have it's own way of creating the initial state, and...")
• 16:30, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Irrational people are easier to manipulate (Created page with "= Overview = Evil people with power want to control and manipulate the population into believing their evil acts are justified, this is hard to do when the population has the ability to assess their actions rationally and without emotion. Behaviors and beliefs develop that reduce peoples ability to think rationally and feed off our irrational animal natures, the strongest being fear and hatred. = Fear =...")
• 13:20, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Humility and the Socratic method (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox6High}} = Overview = In the search for truth a level of humility should be encouraged as complete understandings of complex systems is near impossible. Almost every agreed upon truth has at some time been upended by new ideas and information. Through questioning and refining arguments different interpretations of evidence or thought can be analysed, and the community can decide which make the most sense at any time. = Humili...")
• 12:35, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page What makes humans happy (Created page with "= Overview = Things that make humans truly happy and satisfied with their lives include: * overcoming difficult challenges * strong social connections * working with others to a common goal * being in control of ones environment * low levels of inequality In addition to increasing happiness, the above generally improve peoples lives. Humans have evolved with traits that supported us during difficult times, but in times of abundance, if not managed behaviors such as la...")
• 12:19, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Strong work ethic (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox2Low}} = Overview = In support of Scaling the community a strong work ethic should be required or encouraged of members. A strong work ethic counters consumerism and encourages connections between members. = Related concepts = * Scaling the community * Education of community members * Education of children = Related reasonings = * What makes humans happy Catego...")
• 03:42, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Bred to be lazy consumers (Created page with "= Overview = If those who crave power want the population to be weak it is easier to understand why existing societies manipulate their populations to not think rationally and act in ways that weaken themselves. = Animal nature = Our nature is to accumulate things and find opportunities in life to relax, this makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint where accumulation of things would aid in survival, and...")
• 02:45, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Manipulation (Created page with "= Overview = We are all being manipulated all the time be everything our senses take in. A community has a great deal of influence in manipulating it's members to act certain ways or believe certain ideas. This can be used for Good vs Evil, we all need guidance as we grow, education and leading by example are forms of manipulating another person. When a society enacts a system where the people in positions of power have a hugely disproportionate influence over the...")
• 02:35, 24 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Education of children (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox2Low}} = Overview = Incorporate into education of children from a young age the importance of rational thinking, understanding how our own and other's biases affect our ability to reason effectively, teaching methods that reduce irrational decision making. Teach the importance of the core concepts the community considers importance, for example how all people have the capacity for good and evil and concentrated power offers a...")
• 13:48, 22 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Scientific method (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox4Moderate}} = Overview = The Scientific method is a relatively simple technique communities can use to make decisions that achieve desired outcomes. Rather than making assumptions and arguing which assumption is correct, a community can test different ideas, decide on measurable metrics, and compare different experiments. When combined with Humility and the Socratic method no experiment result should be considered absolute truth, all resul...")
• 13:39, 22 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Truth seeking (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox4Moderate}} = Overview = By seeking truth better decisions can be made, however in complex systems absolute truth is difficult, sometimes impossible to attain. Because ambiguities exist the goal is to come as close to the truth as the current information allows, to search for more information, and to reassess understandings as the information changes. There are techniques that can be applied that assist in truth seeking, such as the Scientif...")
• 13:19, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Reasonings (Created page with "= Overview = Help articulate the thought process and evidence behind Concepts and Initial states used by {{CommunityMainNamePlural}}. Reasonings are open for debate, many are morality based, fallacies found in reasoning pages can be raised in the {{IzaraForumLink}}. For a list of reasoning pages see Reasonings.")
• 13:03, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Template:IzaraForumLink (Created page with "[https://discourse.izara.io/|Izara Project forum]")
• 12:56, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Privacy (Created page with "= Overview = For people living under a tyrannical system privacy is an important protection, but as technology advances that protection under existing governance systems is fast eroding, privacy protects those in power who do evil while average citizens are afforded little privacy. Under a majority rules system social morality will hopefully be a protection against acts of evil enacted by those with positions of power. A self go...")
• 12:15, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Public voting (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox5Moderate}} = Overview = All votes are public, this will allow any member of the community to do a physical check that each members vote was recorded accurately and the vote tallied correctly. = Related concepts = * Voting system = Related reasonings = * Privacy * Coercion Category:Concepts")
• 12:09, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Distribution of power (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox10Critical}} = Overview = Decisions of social importance should be decided by as many people as possible who are affected by that decision, this allows a population to self govern without the need for representatives or other people in positions of power to have unfair sway over the decisions. Primarily this is achieved through the Voting system and method of choosing what is voted on, however all...")
• 12:04, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Mob rule (Created page with "= Overview = Mob rule, or tyranny of the majority, is a concern in majority rule systems where the majority will act in their own interest at the expense of a minority. Sometimes the term tyranny is defined as actions that are unreasonably cruel or oppressive. Enacting rules that do not benefit a minority would not by tyranny, all rules and laws do this (or there would be no reason to codify the rule as everyone would already be compliant). = Is it a problem = Maybe,...")
• 11:49, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Good vs Evil (Created page with "= Overview = What is good, what is evil? * On a personal level each individual chooses what that consider good and what evil. * On a social level these terms should be defined by the majority. * Social rules should be defined by the morality of the majority, according to their definitions. At a low level, most people agree with aspects of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law| Natural law], such as being truthful and every persons right to life, property, and sel...")
• 11:43, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Concentration of power (Created page with "= Overview = Positions of power over time manifest methods to increase and maintain that power, as the primary drive for individuals to gain that position is to have power. As the position transforms it no longer serves the purpose it was initially intended for. As technology and understanding of psychology and social manipulation improve the ability to maintain and expand such positions become more dangerous. = Power attracts evil = People who want to obtain power o...")
• 10:15, 14 October 2024 Sven the Barbarian talk contribs created page Education of community members (Created page with "{{ConceptImportanceInfobox6High}} = Overview = Maintain education and refresher courses to ensure members of the community have the ability to self govern. Which topics are taught, amount of resources assigned, and method of education are chosen by the community. Topics such as Truth seeking or core community concepts would be important for all members to have a reasonable understanding of. = Competence = Different areas of the com...")