Society · Governance
Futureclaim
Treat the needs of future people as claims that a present decision must weigh and answer
Definition
Mechanism
A Decision with long consequences lists its effects on parties who do not yet exist or cannot yet act, and treats each effect as a claim to be weighed and answered in the record, not as optional generosity.
Invariants
- Effects on future parties are listed.
- Each listed effect is weighed and answered in the decision record.
Risks
Failure modes
Discounting to zero
future effects are listed and given no weight.
Speculative claims
imagined future needs override present evidence.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Irrevocable selection from a set of options
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference