To enable all people to create, transmit, and preserve knowledge in ways that remain freely chosen, universally accessible, resistant to domination, and aligned with truth and integrity.
Chaordic Knowledge Stack (V2)
Unbreakable Knowledge: A Chaordic Manifesto
A cooperative, distributed means for creating, propagating, and safeguarding knowledge through minimal agreements, mutual trust, and maximal autonomy.
Herbert 2125: A Eulogy for DNS (and Modernity)
DNS was our spice. Not the spice of Arrakis, that intoxicant of prescience and navigation, but a quieter compound: the powder of continuity, the dust of impersonal order, the sacrament of modernity. Today, we scatter its ashes.
1. The MIDS Philosophy of Decentralized Development
MIDS---Merge / Integrate / Dogfood / Ship---forms a lightweight philosophy for decentralized development: a way for many autonomous contributors to create coherent products without heavy process or centralized gatekeeping. Each step defines a distinct layer of responsibility, with pronouns that map the flow of agency from individual to collective.
What You Write Is What It Did: A Legible Pattern for Structuring Software
WYSIWID makes behavior inspectable via structure. / WYWIWID makes behavior inspectable via history. / You don’t infer truth—you log it…
A Spec for AI Science: How Research Objects Enable Rigorous Agentic Drug Discovery
In science, unanchored agentic AI risks becoming its own form of vibe coding—speed without accountability. Spec Science is the alternative: structured, reproducible, and grounded in Research Objects (ROs).
The Worm in the Apple of Superintelligence
The myth of superintelligence assumes that if we amplify reason, we capture mind. / That is the apple we are offered: shiny, perfect, Platonic. / But the worm inside — the actual worm — reminds us that intelligence is not reducible to reason. / It is inseparable from life…
ROY: Research Object YAML
ROY is a compressed, human-first representation of RO-Crates in YAML. / It preserves all identifiers needed to reconstruct the original JSON-LD, but it presents them in a way that feels closer to a datasheet or a BibTeX entry.
Humanity As Rationalizing The Irrational: The HARTI Hypothesis
The HARTI hypothesis situates humanity’s uniqueness not in pure logic, speech, or play, but in the general-purpose ability to transform the irreducible into the intelligible. / Whether viewed as the root of our greatness or the source of our downfall, rationalization remains central to any account of what it means to be human.
ABCs of ADD: A Cultural Compass for Accountability-Driven Development
How we thrive in a world of abundance.
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