Highly compressed observations. Tweets, for someone who doesn't tweet.
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.
Compute is the scarce resource behind the claim graph. How to decide which claims get mapped, assessed, and re-assessed — a distributed, market-like approach with cost/value estimation and grantmaker agents.
A five-part proposal for funding science by rewarding measured impact rather than predicting it, plus draft legislation. Start here for the essay series and the companion Marketplace of Ideas Act.
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.