Existing Human Institutions
Current institutional infrastructure organized by informational basis and scale
Protocolsstandards & coordination Preferencesaggregated wants Rightsformal entitlements & adjudication Incentivesstructured payoffs Expertisecredentialed epistemic authority Normsbehavioral expectations Thick Commitmentsarticulated shared understanding
Dyadic2 parties
Handshake protocols & shared formats
Negotiation & bargaining
Mediation & fair dealing
Contracts & escrow
Mentorship & apprenticeship
Social conventions
Vows & covenants
Groupteams, clubs
Team protocols & workflows
Committee voting & prediction markets
Bylaws & grievance boards
Profit-sharing, vesting & bounty systems
Peer review & quality circles
Professional codes of conduct
Founding charters & community covenants
Communityorgs, cities
Technical standards bodies (W3C, IEEE)
Cooperatives, participatory budgets & local markets
Municipal codes & local courts
Matching markets (kidney, school) & commons governance
Universities, licensing boards & professional associations
Guild standards & HOA rules
Intentional communities & mission-driven orgs
Nationalstates, nations
National standards agencies (NIST, DIN)
Elections, deliberative polls & national exchanges
Constitutions, courts & judiciary
Spectrum auctions, cap-and-trade & tax policy
Regulatory agencies (FDA, BaFin)
Legal codes & regulatory norms
Substantive constitutions & founding value documents
Globaltransnational
ISO standards & internet protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)
Multilateral assemblies & global markets
Int'l law, treaties & tribunals
Emissions trading, WTO mechanisms & development incentives
Expert panels & assessment bodies (IPCC, WHO)
Diplomatic protocols & soft-law norms
Religious orders & global faith traditions
Methodsdesign practices
Protocol design Standards development Interoperability testing
Electoral system design Auction design Preference elicitation Deliberative process design
Constitutional design Dispute system design Legislative drafting Comparative institutional analysis
Mechanism design Market design Matching market design Metrology
Accreditation
Regulatory design Legislative drafting
Values articulation methods Hermeneutics Case canon design Alignment writing
AGI Institutions (Required)
New institutions needed for a world of autonomous AI agents
Protocolsstandards & coordination Preferencesaggregated wants Rightsformal entitlements & adjudication Incentivesstructured payoffs Expertisecredentialed epistemic authority Normsbehavioral expectations Thick Commitmentsarticulated shared understanding
Dyadic2 parties
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Agent negotiation & bargaining
Agent-agent mediation
Human-outcome contracts & bounties
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Agent norm invention
Agent-agent vows
Groupteams, clubs
Team protocols & workflows
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Autonomous corp bylaws & grievance boards
Agent profit-sharing & bounty systems
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Agent norm intuition
Values-driven AI organizations
Communityorgs, cities
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Market design for societies of agents
AI judges and adjudication
AI commons management
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Nationalstates, nations
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Agents that represent national interests / large groups
Agents that adjudicate rights
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AI regulatory agencies & regulator-anticipation
AIs that follow and update the law
Substantive constitutions & AI alignment docs
Globaltransnational
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Global markets that keep human interests central
Automated defense of human rights
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Geopolitical supernegotiation
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Methodsdesign practices
Protocol design Standards development Interoperability testing
Auction design Electoral system design Preference elicitation Deliberative process design
Constitutional design Dispute system design Legislative drafting Comparative institutional analysis
Mechanism design Market design Matching market design Metrology
Accreditation
Regulatory design Legislative drafting
Values articulation methods Alignment writing Case canon design
High-Fidelity Society & Meaning Economy
Institutions that maintain fidelity to complex values at scale — using thick models of value, fidelity courts, and combinatorial procurement to replace thin proxies with rich, accountable mandates
Protocolsstandards & coordination Preferencesaggregated wants Rightsformal entitlements & adjudication Incentivesstructured payoffs Expertisecredentialed epistemic authority Normsbehavioral expectations Thick Commitmentsarticulated shared understanding
Dyadic2 parties
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TMV-mediated negotiation
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Outcome-verified contracts (CRSA bundles at dyadic scale)
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Vows grounded in thick mutual commitments
Groupteams, clubs
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MGE-based group decision-making
Fidelity-auditable bylaws
Bounties & profit-sharing tied to thick outcome verification
Domain-rotation requirements for up-fidelity
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Living charters with TMV-specified mandates
Communityorgs, cities
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CRSA-based procurement replacing bilateral contracting
Fidelity courts & integrity-holder standing
Combinatorial auctions with socialized verification pools
Domain-experience sabbaticals from automation
Norms of mutual accountability to thick commitments
Intentional communities with TMV-grounded mandates
Nationalstates, nations
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MGE replacing thin elections — surfacing constitutive commitments
Fidelity doctrine in constitutional law (ripeness, political question)
National CRSA markets for complex public goods
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Fidelity requirements for AI deployments in institutional roles
Substantive constitutions with TMV-specified values
Globaltransnational
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Global CRSA markets replacing thin commodity markets
Int'l fidelity tribunals
Cross-border combinatorial procurement with bundling transfers
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Global fidelity norms & thick value traditions
Methodsdesign practices
Protocol design Standards development Interoperability testing
Moral Graph Elicitation Combinatorial auction design Preference elicitation Deliberative process design
Fidelity adjudication Constitutional design Dispute system design Comparative institutional analysis
CRSA mechanism design Proper scoring rules Socialized verification Market design
Domain-rotation design Accreditation
Fidelity auditing Regulatory design Legislative drafting
Thick models of value Values articulation methods Hermeneutics Case canon design Alignment writing