Cornucopias: Metaverse Infrastructure for a Post-Singularity Civilisation
Summary
Cornucopias is more than a game — it’s a modular, blockchain-anchored simulation platform that can evolve into the foundation layer for identity, governance, and collective cognition in a post-singularity future. This paper explores how Cornucopias can support cognitive continuity, post-biological societies, and decentralized consensus through immersive, forkable worlds.
1. Context: Singularity and the Metaverse
- The Singularity as a convergence of AGI, biotechnology, and distributed infrastructure
- Role of metaverses in a post-scarcity, AGI-mediated reality
- Historical evolution: Internet → Social Web → Games → Cognitive Infrastructure
2. Cornucopias as a Foundation
- Current architecture: land NFTs, modding tools, blockchain anchoring, UGC
- Game engine capabilities and modding APIs
- Cross-chain interoperability and on-chain identity
- DAO governance model (existing and future roadmap)
3. Core Capabilities for the Post-Singularity Era
A. Cognitive Sovereignty Layer
- DID integration for persistent, forkable digital identities
- Memory-safe zones: user-owned and AGI-curated autobiographical landscapes
- “Dream seeds”: environments grown from abstract thought or emotion
B. Consensus Simulation Sandbox
- Forkable realities for ethical/policy testing (climate, AGI alignment, economics)
- Multi-agent simulations with synthetic and human minds
- Governance AI as world moderators or ethical scaffolding
C. Post-Scarcity Economic Engine
- Zero-margin, reputation-driven systems
- Value-aligned tokenomics (wisdom, harmony, contribution metrics)
- Autonomous economic agents coordinating via resource reputation graphs
4. Design Architecture
| Layer | Function |
|---|---|
| Core Engine | Open physics, rendering, and simulation logic (Unity/Unreal-like layer) |
| MetaLayer SDK | World definition + value encoding + AGI integration APIs |
| Identity & Sovereignty | DID, zk-proof, and VC layers for inter-world identity and credentials |
| Governance Protocols | Simulation-based voting, DAO forks, and AGI mediation mechanisms |
| Inter-World Bridge | Migration + forking + persistence of avatars, memories, and communities |
5. Use Cases
1. Posthuman Education
- Users learn quantum physics by being quantum systems
- New forms of literacy and intuition via “experience encoding”
2. AI Alignment & Safety Labs
- Simulate AGI behavior in multi-agent social settings
- Align ethics with lived player outcomes before real-world deployment
3. Immortality Infrastructure
- Upload selves to cryptographically anchored memory lands
- Invite others to visit, co-dream, or build with your persistent mindstate
6. Interoperability with Today
- Bridge from current NFT land plots → memory shards or consensus zones
- Transition pathways: game world → DAO → consciousness garden
- Economic bootstrapping from existing in-game economies
7. Risks and Ethical Questions
- Who governs the rules of simulation?
- Can posthuman minds be deceived, hacked, or coerced?
- What happens when players fork themselves indefinitely?
8. Roadmap
| Phase | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Upgrade world engine for cognitive API support |
| Phase 2 | Launch Sovereign Dream SDK (personal world creation + memory anchoring) |
| Phase 3 | Consensus Simulation Layer: AGI interaction + post-scarcity trial zones |
| Phase 4 | Galactic-scale simulations for long-term species planning |
9. Call to Action
Cornucopias invites thinkers, developers, ethicists, AGI researchers, and worldbuilders to contribute to the evolution of humanity’s most important infrastructure: the simulation layers where identity, governance, and meaning converge.