Bread Crumbs and Anarchy
I’m on Bluesky. I see a couple of things making the rounds that are related to Irreni and find them worth addressing.
- Tech bros, or PhDs in general, are speaking outside of their expertise and are no more informed than the general public. They are not experts in other fields.
- Anarchy as a solution.
At first blush I appear as a Tech Bro speaking outside of my formal education of software engineering and inventing Irreni. Tech Bros who read some science-fiction and took it literally. Fair enough. Doubly fair enough in that tech bros are promoting with financing in real life Curtis Yarvin’s call to return to monarchy [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny]. Then there is Praxis [https://www.praxisnation.com/] I wrote about previously in ‘Scam Societies 03/30/2025.
I did get my start inventing Irreni by reading science fiction. That was the point. Of Science Fiction. As a Dewey Decimal classification. You see, after WWII the atomic age was ushered in and humanity was collectively caught with its pants down as to what to do about atomic weapons. We had no morals or laws ready to go.
Joseph Campbell, a professor of history and mythology, started a campaign to rectify ever getting caught with our collective pants down again: science fiction. Science fiction was conceived as way to think about technology before it came into existence. Thus “hard science fiction” was born. The purpose was to write about near-future and future technologies as the might be used. Campbell funded sci-fi writers and required them to base stories and history and mythology.
I grew up reading the science fiction produced from that era. That science fiction doubled as both entertainment and education. This idea of crafting laws and morals ahead of technology appearing seemed like a great idea to me in the 1970s. Initially I just had some sketches of ideas no more flushed out than the stories that sparked them.
Eventually I acquired a couple of college degrees in computer engineering to pay the bills. Also, I’m passionate about computing and engineering. I would describe myself as first-and-foremost an engineer by character.
I did take a few social engineering courses at college. History, modern anthropology, sociology and business. But I’m certainly no expert in any of those.
One day my math teacher asked me what my plans were after college. I replied with getting at least one other degree in social engineering. She scoffed and said it was a waste of tax payer money. She argued that the point of education is two-fold: the topic and the process. A formal education should teach someone how to teach themselves. Fair enough, I thought.
Besides, there are no degrees in social engineering. There are just various topics in the humanities like education, modern anthropology, sociology, history, etc.
So that’s what I did. I took to reading scholastic material on social engineering. When I was doing so I realized that many of the topics in hard science-fiction came from social engineering scholarly work. That makes sense in that their mission was to speculate on morals and laws needed to control technology before it came into existence. Isaac Asimov’s famous three rules for robots being one such example that has gone mainstream.
Unfortunately, the arrogant, evil, wicked, despicable English literature professors since WWII have stuck with Shakespeare. Thus robbing us form having college students debate the literature regarding problems of the future, and instead reading about past stupidity. English Lit professors can rot in hell. Just kidding. There is no hell.
I took Joseph Campbell’s mission statement to heart and invented Irreni. Irreni is future thinking as well as present management.
Am I a current tech bro who infantilized sci-fi to whip up some 0.01% baked social engineering project like Praxis or the Cathedral? No. I used sci-fi as it was intended: as bread crumbs. Food for thought. I then took those ideas and ran with them. I have applied the best in social engineering education that a single person can come up with and created Irreni. I did not implement sci-fi.
So, yes, on the surface level I’m a sci-fi reading, Tech Bro promoting a new social order. But no, I’m not that because I didn’t implement sci-if, I just used it for inspiration, and I educated myself using a college trained discipline to become an expert in social engineering.
So Anarchy.
In some sense Anarchy is the flip side of Tech bro simplicity. Tech bro simplicity is just implement ideas of whimsy as a new social order. Anarchy is simplicity of removing formal government. Anarchy is just silly on the face of it. We know what happens when people are left to their own devices, we have 200,000 years of humanity to go on.
This does bring up a foundation question in social engineering though: how much government is needed? Anarchy relies on good-faith people settling their differences. The Federalist paper argued that the best government possible is only good government. Why? Because every law suite has a loser and that loser won’t be happy. Even over such trivial things as a tree blocking someone’s ocean view.
We can’t all “just get along”. That’s never happened in human history.
What is the game then? I will explain how Irreni addresses this but the reasoning would fill a book and this is a blog post.
The micro-governing organization, MGO, is the Irreni mesh node in a mesh society. The MGO is the only sovereign in Irreni that has corporal sovereignty of its members. Prison, punishment for crimes, and such can only be enacted by the thirty people who belong to the MGO a criminal belongs too. The MGO will have a set of rules written by its members to be understood by its members. No mountain of laws to deal with.
On the flip-side Irreni has projects. Projects are how mesh nodes, MGOs, group. These mesh groups enact projects. These projects require imposing rules. When Irrenni is fully operational and everyone no Earth belongs to an MGO then there will be millions of projects and millions of rules. No one person can be expected to no them all. Just like all the laws we have today in Democracy.
The difference between the mountains of laws in Democracy and the mountains of rules in Irreni projects is that only the MGO can punish individuals for not following rules. MGOs sign contracts when joining projects. These contracts will have rules for punishing or kicking out MGOs that are objectionable for any reason.
Think of it this way. Everyone in Irreni society has “diplomatic immunity”. However this immunity is not tied to land boundaries. This immunity is tied to MGO membership. MGO members violating project rules can be dealt with by the project members by punishing the MGO as laid out in the contract.
One thing to understand about Irreni projects is that they have a maximum five-year life-span before being renewed. Any court system with lawyers set up to adjudicate contract disputes will be short lived. There will be long-term, renewed projects. In fact one is required, the Irreni management system is instituted as a project. However, the five-year renewal means all the words in the contract are up for change.
Ever increasing populations are going to require larger-and-larger sets of rules to manage larger populations. MGOs provide a sovereign safe-haven from that.
Anarchy has no system for managing groups, let alone large populations.