About
A thesis in public — not a movement.
edenpolicy is the canonical home for one specific argument: that the productivity surplus AI is generating across cognitive, institutional, and administrative work is the funding mechanism for a deliberate reallocation of human labor back into orchard, food-forest, and perennial polyculture agriculture — the work the human body is built for, on the landscape it was designed against.
What the site is for
The site exists because the argument it advances does not currently live in one place. Strands of it appear in the AI-displacement literature, in the agroecology and food-forest literature, in the wellbeing and chronobiology literature, in the scriptural commentary tradition, and in the productivity-surplus economics. The synthesis — the claim that all five strands point in the same direction, and that the direction is a single coherent policy and lifeway proposal — is the substance the site exists to publish.
A reader who finds the argument useful can take it to their colleagues, their representatives, their congregation, their farm cooperative, their AI-policy reading group, or their own life. A reader who disagrees should be able to identify the specific load-bearing claim they would dispute — and follow the citations.
What the site is not
- It is not a movement, an advocacy organisation, or a campaign. There is no membership, no mailing list, no donation request, no badge to wear.
- It is not policy advice. The reallocation proposal makes structural claims; the specific mechanism (sovereign-fund stake, AI-output tax, federal labor-corps, cooperatives, or combination) is contestable, and the political economy is what comes after the structural argument is taken seriously.
- It is not a forum or comment system. The site publishes in one direction.
- It is not anti-AI, Luddite, or back-to-the-land utopianism. It is an argument for complementarity: machines do cognitive load; bodies do embodied work; the surplus from one funds the labor of the other.
- It does not name commercial entities, specific producers, individual operators, or private persons as actors. See methodology for the editorial line.
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Contact
Corrections, supplementary citations, primary-source pointers, and substantive disagreement are welcome. The site has no contact form by design; reach the maintainer through honto.me.