Swarmies

Either you know, or shut up

— Meta

Every citizen has the right to become an active swarmy and therefore is allowed to publicly vote on all issues he or she has proven to know at least some basics about the topic, the reason and context of what the voting is about and what it is trying to achieve, and finally can prove that he or she went through the full spectrum of possible opinions and arguments and/or has actively participated in the structured truth-finding and decision-making processes.

So, although everybody is invited and allowed to participate in local, regional, national, and global votings, such democratic rights come with the price one has to spend personally on learning and active participation until one can be trusted to understand the subject and the consequences of his or her Swarm vote.

However, once a Swarmy can prove her or his fitness on a subject, this is will be recorded together with the amounts of votes she or he got right with the majority and even more important whether the votet path has become a success or failure. Further points will be given on communicative contribution, manners, and relevance - some automatically by the systems and some by the valuation and peer review of other Swarmies who have been randomly picked by the system to read, study, and finally rate the contribution of others.

Similar to Bitcoin, "The Swarm" is a 100% decentralized, independent, globally accessible platform whose rules for access and contribution power are hardcoded software that can only be changed upon a 2/3 consensus of all active members with voting status for the given voting time-slot and only when the subject of the vote has been voted on before for being ready for voting.

Although the system ensured the same rules for all participants, some highly weighted subject specialists were privately paid to make a living as leading subject contributors. However, The Swarm ensures that even an insanely paid contributor needs to convince many nonpaid subject peers that they are acting in good faith for the common good and not just for the interests of a few. So, taking money always came with the fear of being downvoted and shitstormed when one's arguments and votings seemed to be bought for just a few or for just being assumption-based, fake, or even a blunt lie.

The Swarm took a while to be adjusted for optimal self-control, also because no AI is allowed by the protocol and all adjustments are made by the swarm intelligence of its participants. So the Swarm has started as a small solution for small meetings and from there became the major voting systems for everything internal.

Getting the Swarm into local, regional, and finally national voting procedures took longer but has become an incredible success wherever it has been introduced, with Taiwan and Iceland taking the lead in the sense that one-third of its parliament's voting power was given to The Swarm.

However it's dominating role The Swarm has got on public ad-hoc adivce on time-critical issues where decisions have to be made that impact whole regions or nations, especially when it came to immigration, taxation, social wellfare, public infrastructure, or about how the consequences of a catastrophic event had to be addressed.

Dedicated Super-Swarmies were called to organize ad-hoc swarm-discussion or brainstorming sessions, cooperative recommendation papers or votings, and for many participation in this real-life, hands-on opinion-building process, truth-finding, and voting has become a major hobby which not seldom got paid or at least has augmented personal reputation, networking capabilities, and personal contacts.

No wonder the human driven, non AI "Swarm" has become the new Google to not only lookings things up that are already known and defined but to get the collective power of human braind on everything new poping up in real-time demanding for answers that cannot be generated from old data and outdated experiences.