Joyful Responsible Abundance · A whole-system proposal
Powerful intelligence is being built into the world. The choices we make now can spread its benefits, deepen dependence, or open new ways to live.
Who owns it, who directs it and who has the means to take part will shape what comes next.
An imagined future, with choices still open. AI-generated concept image. Image credits
Between the world we inherit and the world we build
More powerful technology does not settle how we live together. Ownership, health, time and public decisions influence whether people gain room to act or find their choices narrowing.
The pressure of the status quo
People can depend on systems they have little time, information or authority to question.
The alternative we can practise
The proposal connects the conditions for a good life with the capacity to shape shared decisions.
Joyful Responsible Abundance is a direction to choose and keep working towards. It takes institutions, infrastructure and everyday practice, with room to disagree, test an idea and change course.
A wake-up call with somewhere to go
A confusing electricity bill is a small encounter with a much larger question: can you understand a system well enough to question how it treats you? Household Bill Check begins there. The wider plan connects personal learning, health, useful work, public evidence and shared computing.
The same question reaches into AI research, factories, public services and connected machines. Who can inspect them, correct them and direct what they do? Who shares in the gains when they become more productive?
This site brings together two papers by Luke Nathan Hayes. The whole-system preview introduces the capacities people need to build lives they can choose. The sovereignty paper follows the race to build powerful intelligence and the authority that comes with it. Together they connect personal agency with choices facing Australia and the world.
Follow the connections
How a personal Aura, practical learning and continuity of care can help people carry their experience through life.
Healthy living, time, useful work and locally owned computing give more people the means to act.
Follow a household bill, a legal question or a local problem through evidence, responsibility and a public response.
Connect personal growth, AI alignment, peaceful cooperation and the proposed global festival in July 2035.
The sovereignty question
Access is useful. Authority also matters. The sovereignty paper follows the connections between money, chips, electricity, manufacturing, software and decisions, asking which capabilities Australia can build, own and govern.
Understand the raceTwo distinct planning scales
The global comparison describes 44,000 locations at A$264 billion. These are separate planning scenarios for shared computing, with locally made and appropriately licensed open-source models among the choices it could support.
Change the number of installations or the allowance per site to see what drives the total.
Explore both scales in the calculator →A place to begin
A coastal community has its own seasons, meeting places, transport constraints and ways of sharing knowledge. The plan begins with that texture of ordinary life, then asks how communities can exchange what they learn while keeping authority over their own choices.
The photographs on this site show real places. The concept images imagine possible settings for the proposals.
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