Reasoning

Many dangers are approaching us. The biggest threat is, of course, global warming and the symptoms of climate change. The impacts on earth and its biosphere are many. At the same time, we have the loss of biodiversity, the devastation of our water sources, increased militancy, the rise of willing ignorance, and a shocking concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Unfortunately, most people only concentrate on one danger at a time, if they perceive any danger at all.

At the same time, technology and scientific knowledge are expanding significantly.

Many of us were motivated with visions of a great future. One of the brightest of those futures is that of an inclusive, intelligent, and wise space-faring civilization. All the dangers above are a direct threat to that beautiful future, too.

Developing that beautiful future is why the Earth Settlement One project exists.

Goals

To do that:

1. We need to augment human intellectual, physical, and emotional capacities.
2. We need to develop new technologies to assist those augmented capacities
3. We need to create new social mechanisms for cooperative interaction because mutualism is more effective than parasitism for space-faring civilizations.

Phases

We are going to implement these changes in the following phases

1. The creation of an Internet community to begin this work.
2. The creation of an Earth analog community to put these principles into practice. These discoveries will be available to the whole world openly.
3. Become the space-faring civilization we want to be.

To that end, we embrace the following principles:

Core Precepts

Purpose

• Our culture is dedicated to the development of an advanced space-faring civilization. The universe is vast with various conditions that will threaten our survival. The nature of large areas of the universe are inimical to organic life and we need to embrace the changes necessary to allow us to escape the cradle.
  • We need to augment human intellectual, physical, and emotional capacities.
  • We need to develop new technologies to assist those augmented capacities
  • We need to develop new social mechanisms because mutualism is more effective than parasitism for space-faring civilizations.

Membership Diversity

• Membership in the society shall be a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, level of technological modification, technological identity, or sexual identity and orientation.

Scientific Basis

• Our culture relies on the scientific method to discover the truth
  • principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses

Dedication to Truth

• All citizens embrace the principle of providing all knowledge accurately.
  • To Share the Truth:
    • fact-check information to confirm it is true before accepting and sharing it
    • share the whole truth, even if some aspects do not support my opinion
    • share my sources so that others can verify my information
    • distinguish between my opinion and the facts
  • To Honor truth:
    • acknowledge when others share true information, even when we disagree otherwise
    • reevaluate if my information is challenged, retract it if I cannot verify it
    • defend others when they come under attack for sharing true information, even when we disagree otherwise
    • align my opinions and my actions with true information
  • To Encourage truth:
    • ask people to retract information that reliable sources have disproved even if they are my allies
    • compassionately inform those around me to stop using unreliable sources even if these sources support my opinion
    • recognize the opinions of experts as more likely to be accurate when the facts are disputed
    • celebrate those who retract incorrect statements and update their beliefs toward the truth

Humanist Foundation

• Beyond the scientific method, we rely on humanist values to determine appropriate action.
  • negative utilitarianism
  • priority to reducing suffering (negative utility or 'disutility') than to increasing happiness as prioritized by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
    • Physiological needs: homeostasis, food, water, shelter, sleep
    • Safety needs: personal security, financial security, health and well-being, safety needs against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts.
    • Social belonging: intimacy, social connections, peer networks, and other forms of connectedness
    • Esteem: recognition, attention, attribution, self-expression
    • Self-actualization: expressing creativity, the pursuit of knowledge, desire to positively transform society
    • Self-transcendence: the shift in focus from the self to others, no longer driven by extrinsic motivation but by intrinsic motivation. An increase in moral concern. Emotions of elevation such as awe, ecstasy, amazement, feeling uplifted, feeling elevated, etc.
  • Distributive justice concerns the nature of a socially just allocation of goods. The concept includes the available quantities of goods, the process by which goods are to be distributed, and the resulting allocation of the goods to the members of the society.
  • Altruism: the ethical doctrine that holds that the moral value of an individual's actions depends solely on the impact on other individuals, regardless of the consequences on the individual itself. James Fieser states the altruist dictum as: "An action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable than unfavorable to everyone except the agent.
  • Direct democracy where the citizens as a whole form a governing body and vote directly on each issue, but the principles limit the majority and protect the minority, usually through the enjoyment by all of the following principles

Equal Contribution

• Every citizen has the right to contribute, be recognized for their contributions, participation in our project and our community shall be a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, level of technological modification, technological identity, or sexual identity and orientation, that it can be freely accessed, used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone as long as it does not violate other principles put forth in this document.

Equal Access

• All citizens have access to the total Open Knowledge developed and implemented:
  • information to recreate all operating content information related to hardware, software, chemical and biological substrates, essential knowledge, data, and production methodologies must be released according to the following rights as long as attribution is given to the source:
  • Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content
  • Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways
  • Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
  • Remix – the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new
  • Redistribute – the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others
• Addendum: all redistribution, remixing, reuse, and revisions must be released under the same principles.
• The use of Open Knowledge model allows for the further development of commons-based peer production in which large numbers of people work cooperatively allowing for:
  • Information gain: Peer production allows individuals to self-assign tasks that suit their own skills, expertise, and interests. Contributors can generate dynamic content that reflects the individual skills and the "variability of human creativity."
  • Great variability of human and information resources: leads to substantial increasing returns to scale to the number of people, and resources and projects that may be accomplished without need for a contract or other factor permitting the proper use of the resource for a project.
  • Increased access: greater socioeconomic access to resources, knowledge, and security as exemplified by previous principles which will allow us to create a wise and intelligent space-faring civilization.
• Each citizen shall have equitable access to communal property and the right to reserve some property for themselves.
  • each citizen has guaranteed access to physical property that serves the individuals food, water, shelter, sleep, health and well-being, safety needs against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts.
  • each citizen has the right to privately own physical items of a personal nature such as clothing, memorabilia, and a variable number of other personal items determined on a case-by-case nature.
• All other physical property is community-owned.

Mutual Sustainability

• All such property and knowledge shall be designed under the concept of total sustainability.
  • All systems and equipment will be designed to be utilized in a cradle-to-cradle methodology.
  • Everything is a resource for something else. In nature, the “waste” of one system becomes food for another. Everything can be designed to be disassembled and safely returned to the soil as biological nutrients, or re-utilized as high-quality materials for new products as technical nutrients without contamination.

Cooperative and Collaborative Interaction

• To help develop and implement the above principles we embrace cooperative interaction
  • through an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled society encompassing
    • Democratic Member Control - Cooperatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members, who actively participate in setting their policies and making decisions. All serving as elected representatives are accountable to the membership. All sentients within the community are assigned one vote. However, due to the often highly technical operations involved in some areas, it is necessary to give proven subject-experts an additional one vote in decisions concerning their area of specialization in votes concerning that subject only.
    • Member Economic Participation - Members contribute equitably to, and democratically control, the capital of their cooperative. At least part of that capital is usually the common property of the cooperative. Members usually receive limited compensation, if any, on capital subscribed as a condition of membership. Members allocate surpluses for any or all of the following purposes: developing their cooperative, possibly by setting up reserves, part of which at least would be indivisible; benefiting members in proportion to their transactions with the cooperative, and supporting other activities approved by the membership.
    • Autonomy and Independence - Cooperatives are autonomous, self-help organizations controlled by their members. If they enter into agreements with other organizations, including governments, or raise capital from external sources, they do so on terms that ensure democratic control by their members and maintain their cooperative autonomy.
    • Cooperation among organizations - We serve the members most effectively and strengthen the cooperative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures.

Secularity

• Our culture is a secular culture.
  • Each individual is free to believe or not believe, as they see fit.
  • However, religious principles cannot, on their own, be the basis for any action, law, or other principles.
  • The society and governing bodies must embrace the separation of religion and state with equal respect for individual rights so no one is disadvantaged, nor privileged, because of their beliefs or non-belief.
  • Freedom of expression is not restricted by religious considerations, but the freedom to express an individual's religious beliefs in the public sphere shall be limited. An individual's human rights require that they be free from harassment from religious beliefs. Hate speech is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, technological status, or any other phenotypic and morphological difference.
  • All citizens are equal before the law, regardless of religion, belief, or non-belief.
  • Our culture does not engage in, fund, or promote religious activities or practices either explicitly or implicitly.

Non-Belligerence

• We embrace non-belligerence when dealing with outside societies.
  • the only purpose for which violence can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against their will, is to prevent harm to others
  • whenever possible non-lethal means of defense will be employed
  • defensive responses shall be terminated as soon as reasonably possible.
  • Preemptive strikes are a violation of our non-belligerence policy.
• All possible technologies and methodologies shall be used to provide foreknowledge of possible dangers.

Embodiment Integrity

• All citizens have the right to their bodily integrity and to be free from discrimination.
  • Morphological Freedom: the right of a person to either maintain or modify their own body, on their own terms, through informed, consensual recourse to, or refusal of, available therapeutic or enabling medical technology.
    • Non-consensual surgeries and body modifications without medical necessity are violations of morphological freedom
    • right of a person to self-termination and/or restrictions on medical services in situations where prolonged life equates to increased suffering or decreased quality of life.
  • Phenotypic Freedom: to be free of discrimination based on any type of phenotypic trait which is a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be either inherited or determined environmentally, but typically occurs as a combination of the two.

Additional Measures

• • No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
  • Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
  • No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks upon their honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
  • Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
  • Everyone has the right to leave any country, including their own, and to return unless convicted of a violation such that their continued presence is a danger to others
  • Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other places asylum from persecution.
  • This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles listed above.
  • Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers unless these opinions are a violation of previous principles.