A Short Important Read Will Change Your Life
All people are corruptible. To save our systems, we must no longer simply trust our leaders - we must verify
All people are corruptible.
Not because they are evil, but because they are human.
Give anyone enough pressure, enough fear, enough leverage, enough bribes, enough blackmail, or threaten someone that they love, and even the strongest moral line can snap. If people like Epstein, the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, and Palantir have tools that can break a person, then no one is safe from corruption. That includes the people we elect, admire, or hope are “one of the good ones.”
As one of our writers Josh K put it:
“I know I am corruptible. And I guarantee my moral line - where I would break - is light years higher than most of the cowards in office in this country. Yet I would break. Threaten someone I love with enough force, and I would corrupt.
We must remember that people in office are human, just like you and me. And therefore, all of them are corruptible. Which leaves us no other choice: we must stop trusting individuals in power and replace our fragile, corruptible structures with better systems - decentralized and radically transparent.
To save our systems, we must no longer simply trust our leaders - we must verify. If we fail to do so, then the Corruptors will win. They have fully corrupted our systems.
The answer is not to find better heroes.
The answer is to build systems that do not require individual heroes at all.
It doesn’t matter if you believe President Trump, Zohran Mamdani, Bill Gates, Thomas Massie, or anyone else is a “good person” - they are still corruptible. Knowing this, we must build high-trust systems where groups of people make decisions instead of single individuals. We must decentralize the power given to any one person. By doing this, the system becomes very hard to corrupt.
Humanity has a new tool that no one is focused on. It is called human “swarm” intelligence, or collective intelligence. Groups solving problems together like this - transparently - with no single point of failure, not only end up being hard to corrupt, they produce amazing results.
And to the naysayers, come test it. All of what you think you know about echo chambers and groupthink is wrong. Yes, they are problems with groups sometimes, but they are solvable ones.
If we want to fix this world, we must create new places to pool our effort, resources, and wisdom, and protect them from the corruption that has seemed to infect all of our systems and cause us all to lose trust in them. We start locally first, then connect. Small communities, linked networks, and a new hgh-trust way for humanity to solve problems in groups.
This is not about left or right.
It is about evolving past our fake group labels and uniting over systems that keep corruption at bay. Systems built and controlled 100% by the people, as a new place to assemble and solve collective problems.
Our mission at the Society of Problem Solvers is simple:
Find a way to build the next model.
Systems outside the box like THIS, THIS, or THIS.
If this resonates with you, do not just nod. Lean in.
We cannot wait for permission to build.
We have to build our own high-trust communities to combat the bad ones that have taken control of our systems. It starts with forming a like-minded community.
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All problems that do not defy the laws of physics are solvable with the right knowledge - David Deutsch
“Humans solve problems better in high-trust groups. - The Society of Problem Solvers.
…… because solving problems is happiness!
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For over 3 billion years on this planet there were only single-celled organisms. Then one day they somehow learned to work together and make complex multi-celled creatures . Right now we are like those single-celled organisms. Our next evolution is finding how to work together, better… (like we wrote about here).
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This is how we change the world. We build genies - systems of people like this:
What has been proposed here has possibility of success, however I detect that there is no corrective system to deal with, correct, and thereby prevent other mistakes and failures. Perhaps you have some idea on that matter but did not articulate it herein.
I believe that the main failure of Communism has been that there are no sanctions against failure because all in supervisory chain parrot the Party Line ( approved narrative to be followed). When decisions are made upon specious facts that support and hold up the narrative, but the decision fails, nobody who pushed the Party Line can be found at fault to be sanctioned. So nobody is fired/imprisoned/shot due to failure. All such failures then are explained to Party Members as due to insufficient ardor or effort by those at the lowest level, or not enough money was spent to cover the project through to its successful completion. Never can communists blame the Party’s approved but faulty narrative, as being responsible.
Swarms of deciders would appear to be indirectly responsible for a decision that turns out badly. Group dynamics and the need to avoid loss of “face” would make swarm decision makers blend in with each other, and thus dilute individual responsibility for the group’s/swarm’s erroneous decision.
Additionally, swarm decision groups may take way too long to make decisions as each swarmer seeks their own comfort level of input facts which would not coincide with the other swarmers need for sufficient info upon which to base a decision.
The National Treasure known as Thomas Sowell said, “It is hard to imagine a …… more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Proof of efficacy could be seen from a test: Town of 5,000 with small fire, police, roads, water/sewer departments. Take 50 citizens to be swarm deciders and make them be the City Commission. Document results. After two years, see how well things have worked. (Note:having spent 22years in such a small town as an official, I think this would be a fair test of your proposal.)
Perhaps some Libertarians like the Koch brothers would financially back this type of test. Best wishes for success ! !
Trust leaders? How about having no leaders?