Protean Design

Introducing the protean “Agora-bot”

Better than AGI (that isn’t possible in the currently fantasy experiment anyways). This reality is better than fiction!

Dominic Sedrani

15 Aug 2025 — 15 min read

Cooperative organic superstructures

For each individual the basic necessities are fairly simple.

- Shelter from the climate of the world.

- Sustenance in the form of food and drink.

- And then it gets complicated… they say.

But basically everything we have written concerning this project, is the description of the necessity of love , being returned by the organic superstructure you create yourself out of the seed of your internal relationship between your emotions and your thoughts. Woops, too fast? Hang on , we’ll get there again if you just manage to be able to read again.

And do that in yet another way we’ll describe a practical example of how we handle our software automation paradigms , since information management is incredibly important if you want to be able to do the right thing.

We should never forget what reality is like for all other humans involved in a cooperation and it’s technology.

For each life is not an easy road to walk and it constantly feels like walking on the sharp edge of a razor blade. But the road is just , and virtue is it’s own reward or you lose your way. That we can all agree on.

Whatever an individual puts into the relationship superstructure each creates comes back to through it. Every pulse sent into it , is also reflected back.
It is all our own doing. It is all our own fault.

Assuming there is a qualitative support network of friends and family available , it is time to go into the necessities of shelter and food. Which most people automatically relate to money , which has become a prison all by itself in all these endless experimentations of loveless societies across thousands of years all over the world.

Solution-takers vs solution-givers love to abstract everything into money since it is the ultimate abstraction we have learned to accept. It is nothing more then a number , a valuation by a system of control. While at the same time it can be an incredibly valuable tool , but it is being perverted into becoming a goal in on itself. It has replaced entirely the valuation of quality for all solution-takers that hope to become a solution-giver some day.

Love-Works

In a “love-works” organization , the priorities are vastly different than other organizations out there. The operating procedures are different , the goals are different and the people are different and their very definition is completely different.

A Love-work isn’t trying to stay the same as it was in any point in time. But it is trying to constantly evolve , and if things don’t work out it will die out in grace and start again. Love-works reset and reboot at the flip of a switch , inventories the relationships and means and resources still available out of the previous attempt and try again. Sometimes with minor changes , sometimes with big changes.

A Love-work always has a relatively limited goal , this isn’t too grand in the whole scheme of things. It’s all part of a much vaster network of relationships anyways.

I’ve always found the concept of an old-school library to be a fine example of something that we could most easily adapt to a true love-work. It is really sad to see that the prisons we have been building are even corrupting the fantastic concept of small-scale libraries, and it is for instance in those fields we are trying to enact this in real life first too.

Out of those roots , we will be trying to expand further and further into this world… starting in the village where we live.
Someday… there will be people doing this in every village in the world again , and that the villages and communities where this doesn’t happen simply die out or start doing this.
We won’t see those times , but we still work towards that goal.

The ultimate foundation for an organic superstructure of relations that is built on proper and virtuous principles and values, summarized in the word love , is very simple.

Knowledge!

The organic superstructure should have as much information available to it as possible. And it should not limit itself to just the knowledge it thinks it needs today to do it’s immediate goal. It should strive to gather as much knowledge about as much as possible at all times. And any technology should be utterly and completely transparent. And a legal entity is just a tool too.

And money is just a tool too… And that dictates completely transparency as an obligatory design spec for that technology.

Conditio sine qua non!
A tool is not allowed to hide how it works and what it's doing.

Creativity and learning experiences about anything , anytime , should be possible for all entities engaging in relationships in the organic superstructure called a love-work.

A love-work’s foundation is it’s library of knowledge.

The knowledge of everything it has tried itself in the past , so that it can learn from it directly. And as much of everything , anything else out there has tried too, so it can learn from it indirectly.

What does this mean in practice?

In the village where I live I am working on trying to achieve the first step for a platform that would enable this village to have it’s very own “Love-work”.

There is a building , and a set of locations not too far from each other (walking distance) that house the following functions.

A classical library in the sense that as many paper books are available as is practically possible given the location. Everyone in the network can freely lend and donate books etc.. a community library as there are many in this world. Obviously it also provides digital access to anything it can provide access too. Free access to digital devices connected to the internet if you just go there.

In that same location there are always classes being organized , not by organizations or institutions , but simply by individual people. Each and every one of us has something they know how to do, or knowledge they have , that someone else would find interesting. And each and everyone of us has the desire to share and spread what they have learned , but each and every one of us live in a prison of the mind where we think it is only worth it to get accredited proof of that learning.

Once it’s considered normal again to stroll around the library and ask “Hey , you know a lot about that thing for instance right? Can I ask you a few questions to help me learn a few things about it too?” … The dynamic changes considerably.

You all seem to accept that it is not allowed or useful to share your own unique way of making your toast with a few neighbors. And it is time to break this madness. There should be a force active that constantly tantalizes and entices everyone in the network to ask question about whatever they want somewhere , just locally at first , and interconnected if other true love-works exist in the vicinity.

To do this primarily through networks and devices that are non-local, wrongly incentivized and proving over and over again that they definitely do not have you best interest at heart… Is simply wrong and stupid and you all know it.

And that same force against that should also enable people to go through the compendium of anything anyone is interested in , and if someone feels like they have something to share about that , then a “custom gathering” is created to enable that. What starts as a library of books , should become the old style “Agora’s” of old for that local community and once the seed of this kind of activity is planted , it is a self-sustaining organism of relationships that needs no control , and needs no prisons to be able to self sustain itself.

To be able to build this inside of the prisons we live in , someone will need to start the process , but the first task of the person to start this, should be to work towards the situation where a single unique person of leadership is no longer needed.

That is possible as long as the principles of all the relationships in that network around that library are virtuous and not filled with excuses. It can only operate well once there is a majority of people involved that truly love themselves , and are constantly trying to improve themselves. A certain critical mass of people need to be created that love themselves well , and constantly enrich each others life with the things they are learning through that self improvement.

It should guard itself from prisoners , while trying to set prisoners free. But an Agora where there is a critical mass of people who love themselves well , have a very easy way to validate that at all times. There has to be a status of “membership” for the Agora , and it is the creation of this critical mass that is the task of the single person who starts a “Love-work”.

In organizational practice , the “love-work” is nothing more than a group of people coming together in a “membership”. This group of people has no single leader , but at inception simply needs to create a list of goals , that all members need to agree on.

This inception process is arduous , slow and difficult… but the maintenance of it becomes very easy as long as the average of the quality of it’s members is based on the proper principles.

It is therefor best that a single person created the starting list of goals , and then simply tries to gather a starting set of “members” that will all try to achieve those goals together, as a network.

This group of people should operate together under the very simple and basic principles as the rest of reality follows. Everything is everything and it’s all the same everywhere.

This group of active members doesn’t need a leader. It just needs an automated assistant to do all the boring steps of all the boring work. We have advanced enormously in large scale automation of prisons , but we have completely failed in applying all this advancement at the proper level, at the proper scale, with the proper principles. And that is because we have built all these things to make prisons larger and more efficient.

But we have still completely neglected to apply what we learned to the QUALITY of everything.

And that is solved in our software platform called “The Agora-bot”.

I will now live my life in pursuit of the single purpose of being able to live in a community that is the proud location of a well-functioning, self-sustaining Agora-style

Create Love-works supported by its very own “Agora-bot”… And you could support us in that.

This agora-bot needs to run on computers that are networked across the community and not on external datacenters.

The electricity that this infrastructure needs, has to be created locally in the community by means of small scale and purpose built solar and hydro solutions that can be completely maintained by craftsmen in that very same community.

There is no need for external accreditations for any of this… in almost any community today , all the skills and knowledge are available for this, but it is just not being shared amongst it’s inhabitants.

There is no need for external control , or leadership since the value for the community is simply priceless and at the same time it provides purpose and a support platform of love for each member of that community too. Which in its complete transparency, glues trust of each together.

The members-group that does all the physical work required for this Agora Love-work should organize itself into a meritocracy with the following rules for each and every decision made. Each and every addition, change or deletion of a short term goal on the active list of goals for the member-group.

Before a decision is made in the group, there is first vote about the merit of each member concerning this very decision. It makes no sense that in a group of 20 people , where there are only 5 people with practical experience as an electrician … that the other 15 clueless people get to have a decision about how to wire the installation of a certain hydrogen battery cell. So in this case , the 20 people all vote first about who they feel has the most valuable knowledge and experience about the matter at hand. And then only the people who gather enough merit from the rest of the group , decide on what to do in this specific task , for this specific problem. It could perfectly come out that everyone simply points to a single person , and then that single person goes and does that completely on it’s own without any further questions or need for guidance. And that person then reports the results back to the group.

A complete and full meritocracy for every question or problem that arises. Nothing is done without complete consensus of the ones that have gathered enough merit for the task at hand. And if they fail at reaching consensus , then they report the process of the failed consensus back to the group. And then another attempt is made to gather merit , which will now have different results , since the effects of failing to reach consensus will have reverberations into the next distribution of merit.

Quality in each and every decision big or small is what’s important at all times! There is no overall leadership at any time. There are only guiding principles that are also adjusted by the same group.

And yes… this all sounds like an enormously overcomplicated way to organize something… but it isn’t! it super simple and stupid… but there is simply an enormous amount of boring administration to do , to get this going well. And we have created all the technology and tooling to have this done for us!

Sure , this would become overcomplicated depending on scale, but that’s why the geographical limits of this concept are so important. It’s ideal for a village/town scales , and not bigger than that. But these are gorgeous entities to work together with other communities forming states and countries together though. These are healthy cells that each need to stay their own ideal scale , to form healthy organs together in a healthy body. No single cell should try to grow beyond it’s ideal concept of scale, and that is how entropy is held at bay.

All we need is an AI bot that “administers” the meritocracy, not one that controls it or allows control of anything. A continuous automation program that organizes and prioritizes the merit votes to be taken by the group , which then enables the right people to make the right decisions at the right time , in pursuit of the goals defined by that meritocracy.

The meritocracy should only allow short term missions and experiments on it’s task list , and approach each mission under the same principles of experimentation and reporting back.

The agora bot simply needs to communicate well to all it’s members and manage the “shared state” of the multiple occurrences of decision making going on. There is no limit on how many are going on at the same time and project planning is not needed.

The velocity is determined automatically by the bandwidth of voting power that the members with enough merit to decide have available. At times of a lot of changes , they will be too busy with executing decisions so less voting will be able to occur.

Priorities of change vs execution are a self balancing Nash-equilibrium on itself and needs no governing. As long as the quality of the internal game within each member is guarded well.

Time and space needs to be reserved to support those who are running out of steam , to be picked up by those who are in a high state of activity and potential.

But… luckily… that is exactly also the end result of the Agora that is being managed by the bot!

And I believe and I am convinced, that once you get this agora-style location going , managed as a complete and open meritocracy , with all opportunities to learn more available to everyone in the community it supports … that it will become really easy for that Agora to organize projects that provide wealth and comfort to the community. Why wouldn’t the Agora repair a road, why wouldn’t they operate a restaurant , why wouldn’t they produce software solutions , why wouldn’t they do whatever work somebody out there in the world might be willing to pay for? The Agora love-work will take all their money, own nothing , and invest everything in another better change for the community , and provide for that community in any way that is necessary , requested or possible.

Why wouldn’t they? It’s existence will be defined by not just being good, but the best good possible , and failure to keep trying that results in immediate death. That’s what a good tool is supposed to do.

The basic economic livelihood of any community should strive to first be self-sustaining, and then export it’s surplus on a local scale.

A network of agora love-works would become an indestructible force on it’s own of pure freedom for all its members.

In my mind every community should have this completely self-sustaining, self-managing pod of an agora-bot supported love-work at it’s disposal. And that would then be a community where love and compassion can forever keep growing. A community that wins the fight against entropy… one little decision per one little decision. Quality at each step above all.

It is time to let go in the belief that the large prisons can work in the interest of local communities when the prison is based on the wrong principle. It is time to completely reconsider the economic, social and personal fabric that we live in, and start from the simple truth of our local communities.

It is time to start out of ourselves, and work together on a local level again.

It is time to take all those large automation lessons this world has learned, and apply them on micro scales so that each community can thrive.

This shouldn’t be done through local governments, because they are trapped in the prisons of the governments above them , and those above them.

We shouldn’t ask what our country can do for us… we shouldn’t ask what our province can do for us… we shouldn’t ask wat the local government of the commune can do for us.

We should DO for our local community… the people you can say hello to every morning as you pass them on the street, and support them , and pay attention to them… we should ask THEM what we could do for them.

Every minute, of every hour. of every day.

No longer will there be isolated entities in which entropy can only increase. No longer will there be an environment where prisons can survive.

This will be a community where everyone has a time and a place to go to be free.

No longer will we live in 1984!

And that is what I live for. I believe we are all worth saving.

But this is all too complicated you say?
That’s why we summarize these things in many different languages and concept all the time.

Like this for instance… (But that’s also just one example of that)