Ethics, epistemology, meaning, moral philosophy, existentialism
Twelve testable properties an agentic claim graph should satisfy, from idempotency to calibration, with notes on how to measure each and where adversarial inputs make it harder.
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.
Young people are forced to finance their lives with debt—fixed obligations that create fragility and force risk-aversion. Businesses solved this with equity. We should be able to do the same: sell a variable share of our future income instead of taking on debt.
Everyone agrees AI agents are a big deal; no one agrees what "agent" means. A taxonomy of the word's senses—taskbots, chatbots, drop-in remote workers, assistants, and freebooters—organized along two axes: who the agent serves, and how much agency it has.
Somehow no one has coined this word before. A proposal for a name—and a political philosophy: that the purpose of social norms and government is to align the incentives of free individuals toward pro-social ends.