Introduction

Rest here weary traveler!

Stay for a while!

This wiki represents a perpetual, indefatigable work in progress. Expect blank pages, question marks, and gaps. It is a growing and evolving codex of information. It is the knowledge base for how we organize and cooperate. It is about decision-making, political sensemaking, and the bounds of reason in human coordination. We started this work because we are in a governance crisis. To alleviate this crisis, Polis Laboratories is a nonprofit research institute formed to expand our epistemological foothold and enable collective survivability as we move into a world more populated by megalomaniacs, warmongers, deepfakes, autonomous weapons, and mass media hysteria. We intend to expand this knowledge base to give all peoples a lexicon for understanding how our organizational implementations improve or degrade based on rigorous experimentation in governance across the landscape of emergent independent societies and network states.

"When it was announced that the Library contained all books, the first reaction was unbounded joy. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure."

-Jorge Luis Borges,

The Library of Babel

“We must build a strong intellectual fabric that inoculates us and fosters resilience, as well as equipping us with the means to be effective in our work.”

-The Dark Fi Book