Thesis Threads
Curated reading paths through the research program.
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What happens when knowledge is treated as transferable artifact, game mechanic, and architectural question rather than content.
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Why models, agents, and designers must build world models before producing output. The epistemological foundation of the research program.
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Parallel institutions, exit rights, and architecture that protects rather than extracts. The political philosophy beneath the protocol work.
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A six-part series on building Agentix, a cautious agent-control layer for NixOS. From philosophy to MVP to roadmap.
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How does an agent keep, prove, and safely transfer learned behavior? This thread traces the arc from early memory-market concepts through IMPP protocol design to behavioral supply chain thinking.
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How does a user leave a system without losing identity, value, or memory? This thread follows the portability argument from protocol design through sovereign agent markets to interface implications.
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What interface forms are appropriate when agency is distributed across humans, models, and protocols? This thread examines how design changes when the user is sometimes a person, sometimes a model, sometimes both.
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How do you make trust visible, verifiable, and designable? This thread follows the attestation concept from abstract surface to practical application across creative provenance, human credentials, and failure records.
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What does software look like when it stops competing for your attention? This thread traces the argument from terminal aesthetics through design systems to the philosophical case for interfaces that refuse.
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The same model call costs 10x more carbon depending on where and when you run it. This thread follows the CarbonBench research from measurement to arbitrage to invisible externalities.
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When agents read your brand, your regulation, your design system, and your portfolio, what needs to change? This thread follows the machine-readability argument from design systems to brand voice to law.
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What does an economy look like when the participants are agents? This thread traces the market structure from the lemons problem through niche monopolies to payment infrastructure.
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What happens when knowing is worse than not knowing? This thread follows the epistemic horror concept from methodology to game design to the real book underground.
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Things made by hand, and how anyone can tell. Hand-made work from the Studio next to the essays on provenance and the market for provably human work.