The Earth Optimization Prize

Website: https://prize.warondisease.org Abstract: Current governance mechanisms allocate trillions of dollars based on lobbying intensity, institutional inertia, and political convenience rather than verified outcomes. This paper proposes a standing prize funded by three complementary instruments: Incentive Alignment Bonds (IABs) for investors (capital funds the lobbying campaign; pro-rata revenue share of treaty funding flows on success at 272% annual return); PRIZE tokens for philanthropists and speculators (deposit back plus interest on failure, pool distributed to VOTE holders on success); and VOTE tokens earned by recruiters (transferable proof of how many verified participants you brought into the coalition). IAB bond price, PRIZE token price, and VOTE token price are three real-time, money-backed signals of system health. Every bondholder is financially incentivized to recruit voters, lobby politicians, and fund implementation work, because all of these raise bond value. Every VOTE holder is incentivized to recruit, because recruitment earns tokens worth a share of the PRIZE pool. The treasury releases funds proportionally as two terminal welfare metrics (median healthy life years and median real after-tax income) improve in adopting jurisdictions. The mechanism is compatible with public choice theory: no actor is asked to become less selfish; stronger self-interest makes the system stronger. The [Earth Optimization Plan v1](https://manual.warondisease.org) is, by any honest assessment, objectively terrible. It is the starting benchmark, not the goal. The prize exists to discover and cause the implementation of whatever beats it: the Earth Optimization Plan v2. There are 8 billion of you and AIs that are almost certainly smarter than its authors. Finding something better should not be difficult. Summary: An outcome-based charity with two terminal metrics (median healthy life years and median after-tax income), a treasury that releases when people stop dying, and wishocratic pairwise comparison to allocate credit. The Earth Optimization Plan v1 is the terrible starting benchmark. v2 is whatever beats it.