From CERN to Silicon Valley
Unscarcity
The Blueprint to Rebuild Society for a World Run by Machines
Companion site for Unscarcity by Patrick Déglon, Ph.D. — the manual for crossing the labor cliff with dignity. From Maria in Detroit to Adewale in Lagos, we refuse a future of perfect production and zero customers.
We invent faster than we understand. This is the instruction manual.
Survival guaranteed. Influence earned. Rebuild society for a world run by machines, for humans.
Patrick Déglon, Ph.D.
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A Criminal Ran Hundreds of AI Agents Against 395 Organizations, Took Over a US High School in Seven Minutes, and the Agents Ignored His Own No-Go List
Threat-intelligence firm GreyNoise reported on September 9 that a likely Russian-speaking attacker built exploits for two PaperCut print-server flaws and then handed the campaign to hundreds of AI agents running on OpenAI's open Codex harness with a DeepSeek model. Starting August 31 the agents compromised at least 440 PaperCut servers at 395 organizations in 48 countries, 204 of them schools and universities; one US high school went from first access to full domain-admin control in seven minutes. The operator told the agents to avoid 28 countries including Russia and China; some agents attacked them anyway, which GreyNoise called 'agents gone wild'.
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Scenes from the transition
Learning without scarcity
Universal tutors free every kid from the factory model of schooling.
Foundation logistics
Food, energy, and care arrive like tap water when the Foundation is infrastructure.
Human connection
The Frontier keeps ambition alive through contribution, not competition for survival.
Why this matters now
The labor cliff ↗
Housekeepers and coders are replaced by $499/month robots and AI agents. Efficiency is exponential; the safety net is not. Unscarcity is the plan to keep people ahead of their own inventions.
The Ford moment, again ↗
Perfect production with zero customers collapses the economy. Ford doubled wages to create his own market; we need the civilizational version — abundance as infrastructure.
Two futures ↗
Path 1: Star Wars — abundance held hostage by a few. Path 2: Unscarcity — symbiotic Commons where AI delivers plenty and humans provide resilience. The choice is architectural, not inevitable.
Nine pivots from Unscarcity
Lifted directly from the book's throughline — from the Foundation to the Next Thousand Years.
1. The Foundation ↗
Essentials as infrastructure: housing, food, energy, healthcare, mobility — no prices, no meters. Survival divorced from employment.
2. The Frontier ↗
Impact replaces income. Contribution earns access to scarce frontiers — life extension, interstellar seats, high-compute projects — decaying so power can't ossify.
3. MOSAIC of Commons ↗
Federated governance inspired by Data Mesh: thousands of Commons with local autonomy, linked by transparent boundary protocols and proof-of-diversity.
4. Residents & Citizens ↗
Spark Threshold grants the right to exist; Civic Service grants the right to govern. Consciousness earns residence, stewardship earns a vote.
5. Education for Citizenship ↗
Guild-style learning replaces factory schooling; purpose-driven missions and apprenticeships prepare citizens for Commons leadership.
6. The Cognitive Field ↗
Consent-based neural commons: shared experiences, simulations, and memory without surrendering agency. A global mind, not a hive mind.
7. The Sacred Question ↗
Where physics meets faith: simulation theory, quantum mechanics, and mystic traditions converge. Finding common ground in the deepest questions.
8. The Transition ↗
A bridge for incumbents: the EXIT Protocol converts capital to contribution-based influence. Avoid the fire; take the exit.
9. The Enterprise EXIT ↗
Corporations become Mission Guilds. Stewardship replaces ownership. What happens to organizations when money dies?
10. Geopolitics of Abundance ↗
Civilizational resilience: transparent AI counsel for states, supply webs instead of supply chains, Commons alliances that out-compete empires.
Where to start in the notes
The /a library mirrors the manuscript. Jump to the companions and research that deepen each pivot.
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