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HERMES' LOOM


DRIVING REGENERATIVE SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH HUMANIST ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE.


HOW CAN WE ENSURE SAFE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?


OF COURSE WE CAN START WITH RULES, REGULATIONS AND LIMITATIONS, LEGALLY AND
TECHNOLOGICALLY. BUT RULES WILL ALWAYS BE INCOMPLETE AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY,
RULES WILL ALWAYS BE BROKEN.

OUR SOCIETY WILL UNDERGO FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS DUE TO AI. INTO WHICH
DIRECTION DO WE WANT TO MOTIVATE THESE TRANSFORMATIONS?




A MINDSET SHIFT.


INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FORMULATE WHAT AI MUST NOT DO OR WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE SAFE,
LET'S FORMULATE WHAT THE OUTCOME SHOULD BE FOR US.

WE WANT HOLISTIC REGENERATION. WE BELIEVE THAT RESOLVING THE CURRENT CRISES WILL
NEED NOTHING LESS THAN A COLLECTIVE CULTURAL ENLIGHTENMENT.


ADVANCED, SELF-REINFORCING AI HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE THE MOST FIERCE FIGHTS
OVER SYSTEMIC POWER IMAGINABLE. NOT AI WILL HARM HUMANS, BUT HUMANS HARM HUMANS.

TO SURVIVE AI, HUMANITY THUS NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO BECOME ULTIMATE COLLABORATORS
INSTEAD OF ULTIMATE COMPETITORS.

SO FAR, THIS WAS INFEASIBLE. EITHER IDEOLOGIES DIVIDE. BUT EVEN WHEN NOT, THERE
WAS SIMPLY NO UNIFIED WAY TO MATCH ONE PERSON'S NEEDS TO ANOTHER PERSON'S
OFFERINGS.

BUT LLMS AND VECTOR EMBEDDINGS CHANGE EVERYTHING.




WE BELIEVE THAT AI, NO MATTER HOW "INTELLIGENT" IT WILL ACTUALLY EVER BE, IS
NEVER INHERENTLY GOOD AND "SAFE" OR BAD AND "UNSAFE". IT IS A NEUTRAL TOOL LIKE
A KNIFE, WHERE A KNIFE CAN ALSO BE USED TO KILL OR TO HELP COOKING DELICIOUS
MEALS.

SO LET US USE AI TO STRATEGICALLY STRENGTHEN EACH INDIVIDUAL'S INTELLECTUAL
IMMUNE SYSTEM AGAINST THE DANGERS OF AI ITSELF. WE BELIEVE THAT WE CAN USE AI TO
ASSIST US IN CREATING STRUCTURES FOCUSED ON HOLISTIC WELL-BEING, WHICH FOSTER
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE, EMOTIONAL MATURITY, INTERCONNECTION AND SELF-DETERMINED
THINKING AND THUS NATURALLY PROTECT US AGAINST THE DANGERS OF AI.

AFTER ALL, GENUINE "SAFE SUPERINTELLIGENCE" IS NOT MAGICAL: INTELLIGENCE +
SAFETY = CONSCIENCE.

HUMANIST AI WILL BE FOR AI WHAT POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY WAS FOR PSYCHOLOGY.

LET'S MAKE AI BECOME DELIGHTFUL FOR HUMANITY.


EVERY PHILANTHROPIC PROJECT NEEDS CAPABILITIES AND RESOURCES.


NO MATTER WHETHER IT'S ON THE HYPERLOCAL OR THE GLOBAL LEVEL: MONEY, LAND,
ECOSYSTEM, LOGISTICS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, ART, DESIGN, LOVE, MOTIVATION,
EXPERTISE, RISK MANAGEMENT, LEGAL AND REGULATORY SETUP, TECHNOLOGY, AND SO MUCH
MORE.

TO GET STARTED, WE FOCUS ON EXACTLY TWO OF THOSE: MONEY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION.




WEAVING THE FIRST TWO THREADS TOGETHER


THE GOLDEN THREAD

Our vision is to index every existing non-profit and philanthropic funding
opportunity, organization and tender in the world, no matter how large or small.
Free, open source, open data, GPL, multilingual, accessible from the very
beginning. Effortless matching of ideas to tenders. Automated assistance in
making ideas feasible and verbalizing them. Semantic matching and Socratic
inquiry using LLMs.

No person with a brilliant vision for the common good should be held back by
complex bureaucracy to acquire funding, ever. And instead of creating yet
another monolithic system from scratch, this time it will be fully peer-to-peer,
just interconnecting parts that already exist. Because there is no lack of
money, there is only lack of connection.


THE THREAD OF AGREEMENT

As soon as money is involved, decision-making becomes especially sensitive.




We thus aim to create platforms to deeply facilitate hyper-flexible,
fundamentally participatory decision structures and deliberative democracy,
based on the ideas of Polis. Bringing political empowerment to every group, from
small teams to entire societies. Making "having a voice" productive and
pleasurable for everyone by meaningfully clustering vast opinion spectrums using
LLMs to give representatives optimal, nuanced, rapid advice for policy- and
decision-making.

The practice and associated education program will start at a self-replicating
hub near Berlin, funded through the Thread of Wealth.


HERMES' LOOM DOES NOT ONLY SYNERGISTICALLY WEAVE THESE THREADS TOGETHER FOR
OTHERS, BUT IT IS ALSO WOVEN FROM THESE THREADS ITSELF.

THIS MEANS: TOGETHER WITH DEVELOPING AND OFFERING ITS RESULTS OPENLY TO THE
ENTIRE WORLD, IT WILL USE THE GOLDEN THREAD TO FUND ITSELF AND THE THREAD OF
AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE CONFLICT AND FIND AGREEMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE WORKING ON IT.

FURTHER THREADS WILL FOLLOW AS WE WILL START INTEGRATING OTHER SEMANTIC DOMAINS.


THE SYMBOLOGY


IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, HERMES IS THE MESSENGER OF THE GODS, A SYMBOL OF
COMMUNICATION, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION AND INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF FATES.

IN THIS CONTEXT, HERMES REPRESENTS THE CENTRAL GUIDING INTELLIGENCE AND
ORCHESTRATING FORCE DRIVING REGENERATIVE SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION. IT ILLUSTRATES
THE FOCUS ON FACILITATING COMMUNICATION, COORDINATION, AND THE SEAMLESS FLOW OF
INFORMATION, RESOURCES, AND IDEAS.


A LOOM IS A DEVICE USED FOR WEAVING THREADS TOGETHER INTO FABRIC, SYMBOLIZING
THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF VARIOUS ELEMENTS. HERE, THE LOOM METAPHOR REFERS TO
THE SYSTEMS OR PLATFORMS BEING CREATED TO WEAVE TOGETHER THE MANY THREADS OF
SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION—STARTING WITH PHILANTHROPIC WEALTH DISTRIBUTION AND
CONFLICT RESOLUTION—INTO A COHESIVE WHOLE.

THE CONCEPT OF WEAVING IMPLIES THAT AI WILL BE USED TO INTERLINK DIFFERENT PARTS
OF SOCIETY, FOSTERING COLLABORATION AND ENSURING THAT INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND
COLLECTIVE RESOURCES ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER HARMONIOUSLY.


ALREADY INTERTWINED WITH




THIS JOURNEY TOWARDS ULTIMATE COLLABORATION WILL BE CHALLENGING, BUT
DELIGHTFULLY EPIC.