Sandboxed Demichronia

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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.

Sandboxed Demichronia

As said before, Sandboxed Demichronia is a fictional country where for every wish, there is at least one worker/building that can grant your wish. When people work, it's not that they have to satisfy every wish of every customer, rather, every person (when they work) has a specific role: one person may be a plumber and another may be a cashier at the supermarket, and they must perform that specific role, and get paid to perform that role. As said before, you can't pay a plumber to kiss you passionately, or a cashier to fix the pipes in your house, because that's not their role. So, when one works, one has to perform a specific role, whereas when one is a customer, they can fulfill their wish, because for every wish, there's a worker with that specific role. With some limits regarding violence, death etc. I suppose. This constrasts with an earlier, less carefully thought version of this fictional country, one that I, in hindsight, now call "Isomorphic Demichronia", where the roles of the workers were not as sandboxed, and therefore there was a legal loophole that I called "Asynchronous punishment", where someone, during their work time, could get treated badly by a customer for something the worker did in their free time, defeating the entire point of "having what you want in your free time". Now that workers have a sandboxed role, this loophole no longer exists, and it's entertaining and exciting again to think about this fictional system, as it's more interesting from a worldbuilding perspective.

The SD (Sandboxed Demichronia) government controls people not through censorship, but through saturation of information: in SD, everything and its opposite is said by someone: there are, say, "infotainment industries" and as a result, every possible statement is said by someone, making it impossible for the average citizen to distinguish between truth and falsehood. This is where the SD government comes in and "offers" an "official truth", which is supposed to be truthful. This is a control strategy that is the polar opposite of censorship, but perhaps just as effective, or perhaps even more effective, who knows. This makes the SD government allow freedom of speech, because everything that is said is made useless, drowned in a sea of noise. That's the SD government's strategy.

Other information about SD (Sandboxed Demichronia) coming soon.