World Prosperity Institute

There are hundreds if not thousands of organizations working on world peace such as [1] or a google search will give if you search 'world peace institute', but so far they have not succeeded as the 2022 War in Ukraine shows. The missing part is open collaboration, starting with self-integration at the psychological level, and creation of the Open Source Economy on the political level. This must be done with stewardship of natural life support systems (nature). The open collaboration means collaborative design for a transparent and inclusive economy of abundance. In practice, it means building productive economies - which like at no time in history - simply collaborate.

OSE's motion forward on this is via wiki, Forum, and OSE Campuses, as a distributed, decentralized method with clear governance. Through the years of learning, it's still our belief that an open algorithm (governance) for widespread collaboration can be created, but this must have the hard backing of economic power. That economic power comes from open source industrial productivity on a small scale, which - if collaborative - affords the cultural and scientific progress to move humanity forward.

Governance

We must start with pursuit of what is generally regarded as sound. This requires familiarity with perception (general semantics) including formation of accurate mental models and paradigms. Individuals working for a better world must know most of the key mental models and paradigms that dictate the first principles of how the world works. The good thing is - once one is familiar with mental models of a few disciplines - a dozen or so - one starts to see the patterns and commonalities to reality - just like scientists are searching for the 'ultimate truth' or 'the god particle'.

Thus we must start with general principles - those things that are generally regarded as true. Through lifelong learning, one can grasp most of them - until one reaches wisdom with age.

Communication and quest for a better world must be consistent with applying accurate perception (mental models), and knowing a lot of them - so that there is a common ground of knowledge upon which people can communicate and innovate upon - as Radical Men.

Distributed communication for making a better world must start with governance for how we communicate. Scalable communication involves tools like open forums (such as Discourse) or wikis. In order for this to be a self policing entity, I think we can do better than a $30M Wikipedia budget - a mechanism where a few full time staff (say 12, at more like $1-2M budget) run the governance. Governance must be:

1. Transparent - people earn badges of skill. It is clear who has what skill. Thus it cannot be gamed, as badges require proof of skill.
2. Training - mechanism must exist for onboarding people. This means rapid learning instructionals on key elements of proper mental models, on collaboration, and personal + political transformation by learning the Art of Possibility. This is hard - requires lifelong learning - with end point being the status of a philosopher wise man. This leads to meritocracy that is documented via tests.
3. Testing - badges are obtained by skill, demonstrated through a test. One first learns from rapid learning instructionals, then gets a test. Tests are graded automatically via AI algorithms in order to be scalable. Naturally, all the algorithms must be open source, and the forums for discussion that are set up can develop these algorithms.
4. Execution - ultimately, the OSE Campuses are places of living and working, where