An order-of-magnitude estimate of what it costs to build and serve the claim graph, doing it right. The cost is dominated by LLM inference; a frontier-quality build lands in the high single-digit millions, concentrated in the broad middle tiers and the ingestion firehose rather than the flagship claims.
Part I of A Marketplace of Ideas. How the prestige economy of science aligns incentives in some ways and fails badly in others.
Part II of A Marketplace of Ideas. What the scientific economy would look like if articles paid royalties roughly commensurate with their impact.
Part III of A Marketplace of Ideas. A new form of intellectual property that pays for an article's impact while leaving the science fully open.
Part IV of A Marketplace of Ideas. How to reward impact without recreating the perverse incentives, from review boards to impact-weighted citations and confidential vouchers.
Part V of A Marketplace of Ideas. How a single foundation could prove the concept, how government might follow, and what the scheme does not fix.
An open, LLM-administered repository of claims — built, maintained, and served by an LLM-based bureaucracy drawing on humans, research agents, and the rest of civilization's full epistemic stack.
Canonical claim wording should be clear and neutral; negations aren't separate claims. “The moon landing was a hoax” is canonical, since the affirmative is what's actually asserted.
Open subproblem: how to rank claims by importance to prioritize maintenance and guide traversal.
The foundational subproblem: reading a corpus and extracting clean, organized claims. An overview of its constituent difficulties.