Designing an Unstitution: Founders’ Brainstorm

Posted: May 22, 2025 | Author: Dr. Ernie | Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: design, institutions, rethinkcali, transformation | 1 Comment

Pick three relevant experts to design the minimal viable unstitution — a foundational, paradigm-neutral, layered substrate that enables generative collaboration across potentially antagonistic, self-organizing communities.

ChatGPT Prompt (condensed)

1. Design Brief

Objective:

Constraints:

• Must not embed a single ideology.
• Should support “diaphoric” relationships: generative, fractal “I-Thou” bonds.
• Should be spiritually resonant but technologically robust.
• Must work under conditions of mutual antagonism and fragmented trust.

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2. Design Team

Vitalik Buterin

• Creator of Ethereum
• Thinker on legitimacy, governance minimalism, and crypto-pluralism.

Audrey Tang

• Taiwan’s Digital Minister.
• Architect of radical democratic tools like vTaiwan and use of Pol.is.

John Vervaeke

• Cognitive scientist and philosopher at the University of Toronto.
• Creator of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, a comprehensive series on the science of wisdom, meaning, and spirituality.

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3. Brainstorming Highlights

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