New individuals qualify for admission to Sortocracy under one of 2 conditions: Inheritance: For example, an ancestor of a child may will his membership to a descendant. Territorial acquisition: A State admitting an individual as a new member of Sortocracy must add territory to Sortocracy equal in value a member’s territorial rent.
So, under your premise, that the US would sort proponents of social theories into governments that test them, *the most uncharitable reading* of the above would be that current citizens of the US would be the intial members of Sortocracy. A much more reasonable reading of sortocracy would be that the recent history if immigration that violated the consent of more than a supermajority since at least 1965, would be preceded not by mere "remigration", but by drafting the men in the US that were here because of current illegitimate US government, and arming them to impose sortocracy on those lands. This means sortocracy would be imposed on most of the land mass of Earth, while resetting the distribution of population to a more natural state. On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 8:06 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > The value of all residential and commercial property and land on Earth is > $393 trillion. The US share is $80 trillion, but has only 4% of the world > population. Under sortocracy, the US would have a debt of $65 trillion to > the global authority for allocation of property, which could be repaid by > admitting 1.7 billion immigrants from mostly poor countries. Is this how > sortocracy is supposed to work? > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 6:02 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You'd have your "government run by AI" and he'd have pretty much whatever >> form of government he wants within the very simple "vote with your feet" >> limits. Even if limited to 50 States (it would be more like 500) the >> likelihood that he, or you, wouldn't be admitted to a State that has >> whatever trade and/or migration policies (or other notions of "human >> rights") suits you would be virtually zero. >> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 4:56 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 7:40 AM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> There is still a possibility in American to form a country within a >>>>> country. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Under the rules for sortocracy, the US could close the borders to your >>>> new country and nobody could leave or import anything. >>>> >>> >>> John's "country within a country" is merely his way of trying to get the >>> benefits of Sortocracy in a US where Sortocracy is not legal. With the US >>> under Sortocracy, he'd already have what he wants and so would you. >>> >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b58bcc51c493d41-M91c67cc0b928a94aff3df409> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b58bcc51c493d41-M5ab692214aa4c1bae05906f8 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
