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Playnet experiments with games/organizations that enable societal flourishing

Network ➡ Playnet
Less Work ➡️ More Play
That’s the politics

Playnet is not an organization in the traditional sense, but a living laboratory for reimagining human coordination, creativity, and the realization of potential.

We are an experimental platform that seeks to transform how humans play, work, and create together - moving beyond rigid structures towards dynamic, adaptive networks of mutual empowerment.

Playnetarians experiment at various scales, from micro-scale interactions to local-impact initiatives, city-wide engagements, and interplaynetary collaborations, fostering a global network (a playnet) of creative play and cooperation.

We’re/Were/Are/You’re/Will,Be Open Sourcing the Matrix

Playnet experiments with games/organizations that enable societal flourishing

Network ➡ Playnet
Less Work ➡️ More Play
That’s the politics

Playnet is not an organization in the traditional sense, but a living laboratory for reimagining human coordination, creativity, and the realization of potential.

We are an experimental platform that seeks to transform how humans play, work, and create together - moving beyond rigid structures towards dynamic, adaptive networks of mutual empowerment.

Playnetarians experiment at various scales, from micro-scale interactions to local-impact initiatives, city-wide engagements, and interplaynetary collaborations, fostering a global network (a playnet) of creative play and cooperation.

We’re/Were/Are/You’re/Will,Be Open Sourcing the Matrix

Current Pain Points in Public Goods Funding:

• Governance Overhead: Grant committees, approval processes, membership decisions, and coordination meetings consume 30-50% of organizational capacity
• Misaligned Incentives: Grantseekers optimize for grant writing (not impact), donors optimize for visible credit (not effectiveness), committees optimize for defensible decisions (not outcomes)
• Extractive Relationships: Charity/investment models create giver/receiver power dynamics rather than mutual enabling relationships
• Scaling Bottlenecks: More participants → more bureaucracy → slower decisions → worse outcomes

Free-Association's Solution: A computational protocol for mutual self-actualization that eliminates governance through three mathematical mechanisms:

• Membership Module: Automatic inclusion/exclusion based on Mutual Recognition Density (MRD ≥ threshold)
• Collective Recognition Allocation: Resources flow automatically from provider capacities to declared needs based on recognition patterns
• Decider: Rare parameter-tuning only (weighted by MRD)

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