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:description: ResearchCity — the institution built to run epiocracy: its physical hardware (SD8a), its information software (SD8b), and why it needs a UN mandate that #AuditTheMath aims to earn.
:keywords: ResearchCity, epiocracy, SD8a, SD8b, ArkTower, FiShFus, UN mandate, AuditTheMath, SEA of BABL, RIVER of ZION, OL5b, LLoL
:author: LLoL as Laurence Loewe of Laodicea, ClaudeOp46-48Max, and Everyone
:og:card:title: ResearchCity
The institution that runs epiocracy
:og:card:description: Its hardware, its information software, and why it needs a UN mandate that #AuditTheMath aims to earn.
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.. title:: ResearchCity — the institution that runs epiocracy
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ResearchCity
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:doc:`Epiocracy ` --- the previous page --- is the rule of
*gentle kind reasonable* decision-making over the long term. A principle, though,
needs a body that can actually *do* that decision-making, at scale, for everyone,
without being captured. That body is a **ResearchCity**: a research institution
dedicated to *gentle kind reasonably* serving the common good of all people over the long term, funded
by a recommended but voluntary :doc:`buy in of about ~$8 per person per year `
(for Select Stadia Backers)
and up to a maximum of about **$8 per person per year per stadion**
for All Stadia Backers (who by definition support all 1600 research stadia with at least $1).
These funds are required to ensure that *Fiduciaries Sharing Futures* (FiShFus)
can efficiently focus on their respective work toward nurturing and guarding the
common goods for everyone that they happen to work on - without the need to worry
about eviction or starvation due to lack of funding.
There is much to be said and discussed about how to legally organize such a
ResearchCity in today's world. All such questions fill a whole research stadion
(STb11-LCC), tasked with evolving reliable standards for a Limited Liability Charitable Company.
It's currently envisioned as a LLC (Limited Liability Company), albeit
with the self-imposed constraint to keep evolving such groundbreaking standards
to allow it to escape from the legal traps that Joel Bakan describes in his brilliant
critique of why so many corporations are legally forced to behave badly.
This page sketches the two halves of the design, each developed by their respective
research stadia in order to serve all other research stadia as well:
1. **Hardware**: where and how ResearchCity is built (to become stadion STb13-RCH).
2. **Software**: how information flows through it (to become stadion STb14-RCS).
.. admonition:: On these blueprints --- "I know not even nothing"
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There are almost certainly dozens of ways to build a ResearchCity *correctly*,
and LLoL's specific proposals below may well not be the right ones.
What gives
him confidence is not the blueprint but the *method*: the same Reality that
carried this work this far --- through near-endless, re-crushing review in real quests to real answers--- will
get it right in the end, because he has learned to rely on everyone else's
expertise. As LLoL puts it, *"I know not even nothing"* --- which is exactly why
he has to listen, and keep learning how to listen. That can be challenging in such
projects, because (as someone once put it) there always comes the point at which
you have to "shoot the designers" who constantly want to improve.
The core challenge of ResearchCity's work is to implement a way of moving forward
that does not "shoot the designers", but instead uses the ZION algorithms for
mapping out where each type of contributor can excel best.
ResearchCity hardware
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:alt: SD8a poster — ResearchCity hardware: 1600 Arks turned on their head to build a city
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.. centered:: *SD8a --- the physical vision (see the humility note above).*
The physical vision (SD8a) scales in **7-8 stages**, from a single ~10×10 m
research home all the way up to a city of about **1600 timber "ArkTowers"** ---
"Noah's Ark turned on its head" --- built in glue-laminated timber (GluLam) rather
than steel or concrete. Each stage is sized and named so the structure grows the
way an institution does. The framing is a deliberate choice of swapping:
*Avoid Death* (keeping the status-quo, as "OrkCity" does by not re-innovating) then
*Choose Life* (by starting to renew the worst OrkCity's run-down leftovers to
build a new ArkCity that will then be redefined as the new OrkCity at the next Jubilee to keep switching).
The idea is plagiarized from how humans walk on two legs: first put one leg forward,
then the other, never both at the same time (unless trying to jump).
The Jubilee System is a way for coordinating such organizational "walking" for humanity,
but it needs a "brain" to coordinate. ResearchCity is meant to be that coordinating brain.
How to get there: 7-8 stages of scaling up
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The scale-up has two independent dimensions --- **stages** (in time) and
**stadia** (in space) --- and they are fully orthogonal.
**Stages are in time.** ResearchCity grows through **7-8 stages** --- "7 or 8"
because it is not yet settled whether the earliest, *Stage 0,* counts as a full
stage. Each stage runs roughly **6 to 8 effective months**, so the whole sequence
gives a realistic sense of how long a serious scale-up must last to succeed: years,
not a quarter. Each stage must complete a *full innovation cycle* for the key
designs that then become foundational for the next stage --- so the whole sequence
works like a training program for getting a self-stabilising innovation engine
running, one leg at a time (the "walking" above). The physical side of each stage
is what the hardware figure (SD8a) above sketches.
**Stadia are in space.** Independently of the stages, ResearchCity is organised
into research *stadia* by topic --- at least **16** to begin with (one per
essential topic area; in the early stages these live wherever there is room, a few
people each), growing toward the full **1600** co-located stadia. Because stages
(time) and stadia (space) are orthogonal, work on a topic-stadion can begin long
before the stage that will give it its own building.
A ResearchCity at world scale cannot be willed into being by one person --- it
needs a **UN mandate**. One explicit goal of **#AuditTheMath** is to earn exactly
that mandate --- *if*, and only if, the math proves as reliable as LLoL has come to
trust. The fullest version of the case is LLoL's detailed letter to the UN
Secretary-General: it invokes UN Charter Articles §99 and §100, lays out concrete
milestones (authentication → endorsement → a public "Flying Scroll" → a call to
the ten "Nuclear Kings"), and frames the choice as a *carrot* --- a tested way out
--- rather than the *stick* of Mutually Assured Destruction.
→ :doc:`OL5b — the detailed letter to the UN `.
The software vision
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LLoL's information design comes with the same humility as the hardware above.
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:alt: SD8b poster — ResearchCity software: from the SEA of BABL to the RIVER of ZION
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.. centered:: *SD8b --- "from the SEA of BABL to the RIVER of ZION."*
The information vision (SD8b) moves the world *"from the SEA of BABL to the RIVER
of ZION."* Today's circular information ecology --- the **SEA** of Self-Elevating
Authorities --- grows echo chambers and data deserts where knowledge-faking
drowns out genuine insight. The fix is a transparent **RIVER**: a pipeline that
carries data from **Point of Evidence → Point of Use** (collection → reasoning →
adversarial testing → use), with *diverse* Points of Reasoning included by design,
so no single view can quietly dominate. These pipelines are *ReRafts* ---
"life-rafts to save vital info in datageddons."
Hardware and software together, run as an epiocracy, are the practical form of the
:doc:`Jubilee System ` --- and, as far as LLoL is aware, the
only structure that can actually dismantle the :doc:`7DUIs `.
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- :doc:`Epiocracy --- the principle `
- :doc:`SD8a ` and :doc:`SD8b ` --- the original posters
- :doc:`OL5b — letter to the UN `
- :doc:`The 7DUIs ` and the :doc:`Jubilee System `
- :doc:`Buy in to fund the review `
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