The Cooperative
Every member helps build Liana Banyan and earns Marks and Credits for it. Here is the whole case for joining in: the plan, the hiring program, the research bounties, the fable, and the Cue Deck.
This is Step One of How to Save the World in Six Easy Steps. It costs the AI companies less than they pay today: the fee comes out of what the Substrate saves them, and it funds the sixteen Liana Banyan initiatives and a public sovereign fund. Help Them Help Us Help Ourselves. Read the plan →
The sixteen initiatives · Bounty Posters: help build it, credited in Marks
EMPLOY THE WORLD. Need a job? Me too. Let’s give each other one. And our neighbors. All of them.
Canada40K · Speak Friend, And Enter
Read more: how the cooperative pays for the work
We need so much work done that no company could hire for it: software, management, nodes in every city, businesses that build Liana Banyan into what it can be. So the cooperative hires member businesses to do the work, at Cost+20%, and members earn Marks and Credits for what they build. Start a node. Start a business from a free Cold-Start plan. Or start tonight by making dinner: write down the recipe, put it in the Kitchen Table, and let ten neighbors pre-order Thursday. Make it a weekly pre-ordered subscription, so everyone can plan for it. That is the whole economy, in one neighborhood, on one Thursday.
Read the paper: A Considered Approach to Sustained Universal Economic Prosperity · The positions we are already writing to fill: the Crown Letters · Cold-Start business plans · Kitchen Table
The Little Red Hen (a fable)
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Where To Go From Here
That is the fable. The rest of this page is the same idea, run as a cooperative.
The Little Red Hen
found some seeds.
The Cue Deck
Where do you want to go from here?
The Cue Deck
Check My Math:
I think I broke the Sound Barrier.
Every number on this site, recomputed from the raw receipts. Check them.
Check My Math: I think I broke the Sound Barrier.
- 4.38 ms against 35.71 s: one stored answer replayed by code, against the most accurate of six flagship AIs called fresh.
- $99.30 against $4,433.46: 300 questions asked 100 times each, our minting cost included.
- 300 of 300 recalled on a second machine (16 of the 300 were repaired using the answer key).
The Cue Deck
By Grabthar’s Hammer: WHAT a SAVINGS.
Three numbers, recomputed and checked
By Grabthar’s Hammer: WHAT a SAVINGS.
All three reproduced exactly: faster = 1 - (4.38ms / 35,710ms) = 99.99% (an 8,153x speedup); cheaper = 1 - ($99.30 / $4,433.46) = 97.76%, rounds to 97.8%; accurate = 300/300 = 100% for cards vs 280/300 = 93.3% for Anthropic on the same 300 questions.
The Cue Deck
Name the Empress.
STOP the NOTHING.
By STARTING something. Your Project. A Business from our free Cold Start Plans. A Meal to Share.
Be a Bastion, in a Time of Storms:- NAME YOUR IDEA -
Name the Empress: STOP the NOTHING.
What the cooperative is: members helping members, becoming each other’s customers and providers through pre-orders at volume-discount production levels. $5 a year gets all the collective might of Liana Banyan, so you can try as many times as it takes, for almost nothing.
The Cue Deck
EMPLOY THE WORLD.
Need a job? Me too. Let’s give each other one. And our neighbors.
EMPLOY THE WORLD.
We need so much work done that no company could hire for it: software, management, nodes in every city, businesses that build Liana Banyan into what it can be. So the cooperative hires member businesses to do the work, at Cost+20%, and members earn Marks and Credits for what they build.
The Cue Deck
EARN RESEARCH MARKS
For the last 29 of our first 300.
Contracts only. Finished product. In time frame and to spec.
EARN RESEARCH MARKS
Our first 300 MMLU-Pro answers replay by code, 300 of 300, with no AI call. 271 carry a public source a machine confirmed. These 29 do not. Find the source, cite the library page, document that none exists, or correct us. Marks on the 10/5/3/2/1 ladder (proposed; the Founder rules the Marks per card).
The Cue Deck · Open Water
You Have a Play, I Have a Stage
You have a play. We have a stage. You haven’t rehearsed yet? That’s fine. Start rehearsing today. One line at a time.
You Have a Play, I Have a Stage
You have a play. We have a stage. Bring the thing you want to do. The cooperative provides the infrastructure to execute it — Patrons, Ripples, Vouchers, Cold Start systems, the commerce engine, the letters of recommendation, the published guides, the full platform. We, collectively, are providing the stage. Show us what you got. At all levels.
The Cue Deck · Open Water
Doing Something Is What It Takes to Start
You haven’t started yet. That’s the only thing standing between you and Level 1. Do something. The next step reveals itself once you move.
Doing Something is What It Takes to Start
The hardest transition in the cooperative ladder is zero to one. The principle is: do something, because doing something makes the next step visible, while doing nothing keeps the next step hidden. Get a DBA. Make a phone call. Take the first dollar. List the first service.
The Cue Deck
YOU CAN DO BETTER.
This is a crude and unpolished first attempt. Anyone can be the expert.
Contracts only. Finished product. In time frame and to spec.
YOU CAN DO BETTER.
and we gladly step aside for the experts to make it well. Take what we ship and make a better version: more capable, or polished. Variations of MnemosyneC that accomplish more are welcome. To fork the code and apply it better, reserve your place in line to be considered ($250): submissions are tested by paid testers, and the line decides who goes first.
Reservations open when the placement agreement is published.
The Cue Deck
REBRAND US.
We built it. You make it look like it matters.
Contracts only. Finished product. In time frame and to spec.
REBRAND US.
No designer has ever touched either of our sites. We drew our own pictures and it shows. Wanted: a brand mark, a palette that passes contrast in both modes, type we can licence, the mnemosynec.org home page, the Cue Deck card frame, and an icon set — including the Little Red Hen and her X-Ray goggles. 21 days for a direction. Your copyright stays yours. There is no assignment. We don’t pay hourly.
Payment: set by the Founder before the first contract.
The Cue Deck
In Progress: Tasks
We are hiring for Marks.
Contracts only. Finished product. In time frame and to spec.
In Progress: Tasks
- Signed-in “Submit for 5 Marks” never tried live.
- Translation contest rules being ruled (72-hour close from submission).
- Bluesky and Mastodon plugs not connected.
- Feather run-length and half-life math.
- Auto-update feed (fixed in 0.9.33, pressing now).
- Design Contest seeds and runner-up rules.
- The Substrate Compounding chart redraw.
- Non-member Cue Card sending.
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