Permanent games for progress

A permanent game is a durable, rule‑driven system of capital, incentives, and evaluation designed to pursue a long‑run civilizational goal by funding competitive projects rather than propping up specific institutions. The game preserves standards and selection mechanisms across generations while allowing individual organizations to be created, transformed, or retired as needed. — If adopted, this design could redirect philanthropic and private capital toward sustained, goal‑oriented engineering of long‑term projects (space, AI, public goods) and change who controls and evaluates progress.