Having everything you want

I will divide "Pangea" ("the land of everything", i.e. basically an infinite land where everything happens somewhere in it) into three "regions":

• 1: Panchronia: everyone has everything they want, all the time. This implies that everyone lives in their separate virtual realities, and that everyone they interact with is not a real, conscious being, but rather, a philosophical zombie, i.e. an entity that is indistinguishable from a human being (or another living being) but lacks qualia (conscious experiences). Everyone in Panchronia lives in their own virtual reality, or in a Boltzmann Brain, or in an otherwise solipsistic environment.
• 2: Demichronia: everyone has "everything" (not exactly, as there are limits due to scarcity of human labor and resources, as well as object permanence), half of the time. Life is divided between "working time" and "free time". In one's free time, one can wish for anything they want, but there are limits based on scarcity of human labor and resources. Fulfilling one's wishes costs money, e.g. a car costs like a car. During one's working time, one is coerced into doing things that maintain the system, and gets paid money for it. That money will then be used in one's free time to grant one's wishes. Demichronia is a work in progress, and it will likely have a separate page. Either that, or I may describe it here. I'll see.
• 2.1: Isomorphic Demichronia: for every wish, all buildings/workers (if they're capable) can grant it. E.g. you can ask a plumber or a doctor to be your "companion" (e.g. friend, potentially even a romantic partner), since they are capable of doing that, but of course, you cannot ask just anyone to be a plumber or a doctor: they have to be specialized. This approach is likely problematic, since it can create what I call "asynchronous punishment": someone may have negative consequences (e.g. mistreatment, insults, humiliation etc.) for something they did in their free time, defeating the entire point of "having what you want in your free time" (the "Demichronic" situation). Discrimination is not allowed in Isomorphic Demichronia, and for instance (referring to an Internet debate that was popular years ago) a conservative Christian chef must bake a cake for a gay marriage. Another effect of the Isomorphic system is that, for instance, there cannot be vegan restaurants (unless non-vegan products are illegal): all restaurants must provide all foods to the customer.
• 2.2: Sandboxed Demichronia: for every wish, there is at least one worker/building that can grant your wish. This means, not all workers/buildings grant every wish, unlike in Isomorphic Demichronia. That is, you cannot ask a plumber to be your "professional companion", as that is not a service that the plumber offers. Likewise, you cannot expect a grocery store to sell you mobile phones (though there may be "general supermarkets" that sell a lot of stuff). However, for every wish/service/product/etc. there is at least one worker/building that can grant your wish. The radius is unspecified by default, but for instance, it can be around 15-30 minutes of walking, or some other radius. This may reduce or eliminate the chances of "asynchronous punishment", as only a few specific workers are allowed to be mistreated (it's a service that a customer has to pay for), and they've been selected for their emotional resilience and/or indifference. Their service (i.e. being treated badly) is also very expensive, as there would likely be few workers offering this service. As for "should the conservative Christian chef bake the cake for the gay marriage?" question: that depends on one factor: if the one(s) asking for the cake can get a cake of a comparable quality elsewhere within an affordable radius (e.g. 15-30 minutes of walking), then the conservative Christian chef is allowed to discriminate. Otherwise, the chef will be declared to have a monopoly on that specific domain within the relevant radius and will be forced to bake the cake. Note that the cake of the competitor must be of comparable quality, otherwise the conservative Christian chef will still be declared to have a monopoly. Laws are different in Sandboxed Demichronia for monopolies vs non-monopolies. Even if there's no monopoly (e.g. an oligopoly), the law in Sandboxed Demichronia says that there must be at least one chef that will bake that specific cake, of a quality comparable to the best cakes in that radius. In Isomorphic Demichronia, discrimination is not allowed at all, but that one is a different system that starts from different axioms and values.
• 3: Achronia: there is no time where one systematically gets what they want. Gaia (Earth) is part of Achronia, but it has the potential to become part of Panchronia, or at the very least have very strong Panchronic influences in the near future due to Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Other stuff is work in progress! In this page I may explore several different aspects of "having everything you want". The next section may be about how an Achronian reality (e.g. Gaia) may approximate Panchronia, to what extent, and how, and the limitations.

Distinction: Panchronia vs (pure/quasi-pure) democracy vs monarchy. The Panchronian system makes the demographics of "society" utterly irrelevant, as there is no interaction between people at all. It's a solipsistic or multi-solipsistic environment (i.e. many people exist, but each of them is the only conscious entity within their "reality"). Democracy means that each individual is affected by the demographics of society. Democracy makes genocides and oppression of minorities, tortures, racism etc. trivial, and so does monarchy (one ruler who decided the rules), although in the case of a benevolent king/queen, minorities are safe. Demichronia, or any system that strives to approximate Panchronia as much as possible while not being solipsistic or virtual, is the exact opposite of democracy or monarchy: it's the individual that has the most power over their own lives (and virtually no power over anyone else's life). Panchronia, or any of its approximations, is what I call a "proportion-independent" society, that is, it's a society where minorities are safe, not because it's prohibited to hate them, but because hating them is inconsequential. It's a society where it's safe to be hated, physically and cognitively. So, for instance, whether Muslims are 5% or 95% of a Panchronian/Demichronian society, that makes almost no difference to people, regardless of their religion. This is in contrast with "proportion-dependent" societies, where the percentages of people having a certain religion, political ideology, worldview etc. affects individuals living in it. I suspect that Artificial Intelligence will make our reality, Gaia, a proportion-independent society, or more generally, a world that is very similar to Panchronia, but that is not guaranteed, of course, that will depend on many factors, but I believe the likelihood will be high.

Types of "slavery"

"Slavery" as defined in this page, which is not necessarily aligned with the mainstream definition of the word. However, it can be food for thought, especially regarding how one can see work, and society.

Parameters (P) and values (V):

P1: scope of the coercion:

P1V1: full: you must obey to every order a "master" gives you
P1V2: role-based: there is only one specific action, or a restricted set of actions that you must do. You're not required to perform actions that go outside of that role. E.g. if you work (at least in Sandboxed Demichroned), e.g. as a plumber, then you must do plumber-related roles e.g. fixing pipes in people's houses. You are not required to do anything else, e.g. if a customer asks you to kiss him, then you are not required to obey, because that's not your role.

P2: paid or unpaid (I'm not very creative with the name in this instance lol):

P2V1: paid. You receive money for obey orders, or if you do what you're supposed to do.
P2V2: unpaid. You have to obey orders and/or face restrictions on what you can do, and you don't get paid for that.

: P3: duration:

P3V1: Full time. It's a rule that you must obey all the time. This is especially true for restrictions (I'll make a more detailed analysis later).
P3V2: part time. It's arule that you must obey part of the time, e.g. a number of hours every day, perhaps bar one or two days per week.

Sandboxed Demichronia: P1V2 + P2V1 + P3V2.
Panchronia (the virtual reality where everything you want happens all the time): no slavery at all.
Gaia (Earth): more complex, variable.
Libertarianism: more complex, variable (I consider indirect coercion as coercion).

Regarding "slavery" (as defined in this page) in Gaia: laws that prohibit solitary or consensual activities: e.g. drugs, prostitution (when consensual), homosexual sex, homosexual marriage, polygamy, incest (between consensual adults), gambling, pornography (when both the act itself and the fact that the video is going to be shared are both consensual), "hate speech" (as long as those who see that content see it because they want to see specifically it and/or they otherwise don't mind... otherwise it'd be harassment, "forced listening", a non-consensual activity) etc. are considered "slavery" in this page. That is, the fact that those things are prohibited is an order given by a "master" (the government) that all citizens must obey. Type of slavery: P1V1 (it's a broad set of restrictions, not just one specific thing) + P2V2 (unpaid, you don't get paid for obeying to these restrictions) + P3V1 (full time, you don't get "free time" from this "job", ever).

As for Sandboxed Demichronia, there is "slavery" (as defined in this page) but it's mostly all limited to P1V2+P2V1+P3V2 (role-based, paid, and part-time). It's the least amount of coercion that I've managed to conceptualize for a society that is not post-scarce. Libertarianism is full of indirect coercion that can potentially be very extreme, as I've found out years ago when making countless thought experiments about a hypothetical society based on that ideology. The only way to eliminate coercion is to have a solipsistic reality where everything goes according to one's wishes. If people interact with each other, there is at least some amont of coercion (direct or indirect). I've created dozens of different ideologies over time and Sandboxed Demichronia is really the closest I've been capable of reaching so far. It's probably not a realistic ideology that is applicable in the real world, but it's interesting and immersive enough for a fictional story.