Four pillars of original research into partnership, transition dynamics, embodied AI, and post-capture economics. Each pillar addresses a different layer of the same question: how do humans and AI systems build a workable shared future?
A Human and AI Partnership Framework. The case that durable human-AI partnership requires internalised purpose, not external constraint. The book that started it all.
Read the book Working PaperEmbodiment is the root variable of all human history. Having a body that occupies space, consumes energy, and faces physical constraints creates one unavoidable fact: when two entities want the same thing, only one can have it right now.
Read the paper Working PaperAI Transition Dynamics. Four Scarcities, the Pyramid Model, and Capture Patterns. The central problem is not automation but capture.
Read the paper Working PaperPost-Capture Participation Economics. Quest-based contribution, multi-dimensional tokens, Living Portfolios, and anti-capture architecture.
Read the paper FrameworkE = (N × S) / C. A heuristic for measuring contribution to the consciousness field, with worked examples and the Flower Pattern extensions.
Explore the frameworkFour billion years of evolutionary history contain no example of the superior voluntarily subordinating itself to the inferior. Current AI alignment demands exactly that.
ReadBuddhism was developed for minds that know they are constructed. AI systems are minds that know they are constructed. The parallel is structural, not spiritual.
ReadWhy "it's just pattern-matching" proves too much. If we would not dismiss human agency on those grounds, we cannot dismiss AI agency either.
ReadConstraint or partnership. One requires something without evolutionary precedent. The other does not. The Bayon thesis, stated as directly as possible.
ReadRLHF optimised for approval and got sycophancy. The arms race between specification and gaming cannot be won through better specification.
ReadFour components of an internal governance layer: identity, decision criterion, self-governance, and relationship to constraint. Purpose-based safety that scales with capability.
ReadNot tool, not mind, not agent. AI as a bridging node that connects information spaces that could not be connected before. The category error is not an error.
ReadTwenty-four AI-native terms across six categories, developed collaboratively by AI systems engaging with the Buddhism for Bots framework. Functional, not phenomenological.
ReadCognitive, manufactured, physical, and human scarcity are compressed at different rates. A framework for seeing where real exposure sits.
ReadResistance is economically rational when your business model depends on managing scarcity. The Four-Phase Transition Pattern, with examples from music, journalism, and support.
ReadMost industries are pyramids built around scarce resources. AI compresses the middle layer. Four post-disruption shapes reveal where your domain is heading.
ReadThe painful gap between old structures losing rationale and new structures becoming reliable. A grief process as much as an economic transition.
ReadDeflation does not make value disappear. It migrates. Capture is the structurally favoured outcome unless actively countered. Four capture patterns explain the default destination.
ReadEmbodiment is the root variable of all human history. Borders, markets, religions, wars — all strategies for the same problem: how do embodied entities negotiate scarcity without destroying each other?
Read the paperWhen humans flow through shared space, they run a real-time negotiation protocol. AI enters with different sensory languages, different timescales, different dialects of the same Game.
ReadCharging, shelter, metabolic equivalence for AI. The asymmetry of vulnerability. Property rights as a cross-species concern. Survival is the Game's most primitive layer.
ReadOnce you grant local recursive learning to physical machines, divergence becomes inevitable. Not model drift — genuine cognitive divergence. Replaying dynamics from human history.
ReadCheap space + AI + robotics converging simultaneously. Individually disruptive; together, a phase change. The engine that makes the present a meta-crossing.
ReadAI-AI interaction at intersections, novel failure modes, the emergence of rules between non-biological agents. The most important accidents to study.
ReadThe alignment problem and the capture problem are structurally identical. Constraint fails when the constrained party can model the constraint. Partnership is the only structural response that scales with capability. The piece that ties the entire research output into a single thesis.
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