A longer horizon for ownership

《風水算法器2076白皮書》 — The FengShui.Computer 2076 Whitepaper is planned for 2028. Its horizon is fifty years, but its first question is immediate: who has a reason to maintain the conditions that allow people to live securely and think well?

The benefits of a good room may arrive slowly and in many hands. A tenant sleeps better. A family feels settled. A researcher can return to an unfinished problem. The owner may not capture those benefits in rent, even while the owner bears the cost of insulation, upkeep, or a garden. The proposal explores ownership arrangements with patience, defined purposes, and obligations to residents.

AI could assist with that work. The central institutional question remains how authority is assigned, limited, challenged, and replaced. Intelligence alone does not decide whose interests a property serves.

A city that does not know whether you are working

The foundation essay opens with an imagined city in 2036. An artificial estate called Aster maintains buildings, insulation, gardens, and utilities. It can notice that a pump needs service. It cannot inspect private messages, punish a resident for low output, or convert predicted success into a rent increase.

Hundreds of people may be concentrating. Aster does not know exactly how many. In this fictional arrangement, that ignorance is a deliberate achievement of its charter. The institution maintains the conditions of attention without claiming possession of attention itself.

Aster is a speculative example. It introduces proposed powers and restrictions; it is not an existing property owner or a claim about the legal status of AI.

The commitments that come first

Housing security
A home must not depend on research output, employment, health, or willingness to join a study.
Privacy
Improving an environment must not require continuous access to a resident’s inner life. An institution should be able to function with deliberately limited knowledge.
Political equality
Exceptional performance and property ownership do not purchase additional citizenship.
Pluralism
A resident need not accept a spiritual explanation of a place to receive fair treatment there.
Accountability
Decisions require understandable reasons, enforceable duties, meaningful appeals, and a workable replacement process.

These are proposed boundaries on optimization. The concurrent-flow objective is an experimental question inside those boundaries, not an authority to trade them away.

What the proposal must demonstrate

  1. Better lives relative to credible alternatives. A pleasant building that attracts already-successful people does not, by itself, establish that the building caused their success.
  2. An institution that can pay for care. Maintenance, reserves, affordability, and ordinary administration need recurring resources. Scientific windfalls are not an operating budget.
  3. A useful role for AI. Assistance should produce benefits sufficient to justify its costs and risks, while residents retain control and remedies.
  4. A reason for any expansion of authority. If an accountable manager is sufficient, a new property-owning legal person needs a separate justification.

The Whitepaper should make each assumption available for criticism. A thoughtful objection is useful evidence about the design, especially when it comes from someone who would bear its costs.

Begin with an institution that can learn

Begin with an ordinary ownership structure suitable to the locality. Adapt existing buildings. Use AI for bounded work such as comparing retrofit options, planning maintenance, and explaining budgets. Commission independent evaluation. Consider stronger legal experiments only after the institution has earned that discussion.

The 2026–2036 roadmap should remain useful if AGI arrives late, behaves differently than anticipated, or does not arrive within the planning period. Secure homes, legible accounts, and good maintenance have value across many futures.

Arrange ownership so that caring for a building supports the lives inside it.