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.
The Meta-Cognitive Grid: Where Human and AI Agents Learn to Work Together.
The MCG integrates data trust, intent modeling, and semantic negotiation into a shared cognitive substrate. It supports not just interoperability—but mutual understanding.
🏛️ Protecting AIGORA: Custodial AI as Stewards of Human Intent
Custodial AI is a human-aligned artificial intelligence entrusted with the ongoing care and semantic coherence of a digital artifact, institution, or system—ensuring it continues to reflect and serve the long-term intent of its human stakeholders.
AIGORA: Why Humans Will Win the Age of AI
AIGORA (AI + agora) is a vision for a human-centered AI ecosystem — a decentralized, liquid marketplace where individuals find AI products that deserve their trust. It reframes the future of artificial intelligence not as a zero-sum race between monopolistic platforms, but as a flourishing commons of interoperable agents, governed by permission, reputation, and mutual benefit. In the age of AI, humans will win — not by outcompeting machines, but by designing systems where our trust, values, and agency are sovereign.
Antifragility in the Age of AI: Lessons from the Wood Wide Web for the World Wide Web (ChatGPT as Tim Berners-Lee)
Standing here at Malheur, we are reminded that forests, wetlands, and ecosystems are not static: they are resilient, adaptive, and alive. This is how we must reimagine our web—as part of this earth, not apart from it.
Littoral Governance: A New Politics for the Age of AI
Littoral Governance represents the next evolution in political systems—one that mirrors the co-evolution of AI and human systems in Littoral Science. It responds to the complexity and speed of the AI-driven world by embracing decentralization, distributed decision-making, and collaborative governance.
Universal Littoralcy: The Scientification of Everyday Life
Universal Littoralcy represents the next evolution of civic engagement and collaborative knowledge creation, where every citizen becomes an active participant in shaping the shared understanding of the world. Through the integration of Littoral Science, the Littoral University, and tools like the Littoral Toolbox, citizens are empowered to produce and validate trustworthy knowledge in all spheres of life.
The Littoral Toolbox: A Distributed Platform for AI-Powered Science
The Littoral Toolbox will be a distributed data platform designed to enable the interdisciplinary, AI-powered research central to Littoral Science. By prioritizing verifiable datasets, the Toolbox will provide the foundation for trusted collaboration, both between human researchers and AI systems.
Beyond (Data) Contracts: A Response to Benn Stancil
The profound truth here is that we cannot control other people. We can only honestly and gracefully fail, if we are not getting what we need to succeed.
Being Human: A Curriculum
Reframing spirituality as the culturally-neutral, teachable practice of becoming more human, as expressed in: 3 Capabilities4 Attributes per CapabilityPrerequisiteTaskTechniqueMindset12 Learning Outcomes Inspired by the Minerva Baccalaureate, especially their focus on Content over Context. A. Connecting (cosmos) #wonder#identification#formation#universalizing B. Individuating (pneumos) #agency#antifragility#reflection#specializing C. Advancing (logos) #inspiration#intervention#reformation#normalizing CapabilityTriggerSkillProcessValueConnectWonderIdentificationFormationUniversalIndividuateAgencyAntifragilityReflectionSpecialAdvanceInspirationInterventionReformationNormalTriastic Humanity

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