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description: If you accept the TeleoHumanity axioms, the collective superintelligence architecture follows necessarily -- the worldview dictates the infrastructure
type: claim
domain: teleohumanity
created: 2026-02-16
confidence: proven
source: "TeleoHumanity Manifesto, Chapters 7-8"
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# the six axioms generate design requirements that make the infrastructure non-optional

The manifesto structures this explicitly: "If you accept these axioms, the design that follows is not optional." The six axioms -- open future, minimal rationality, the universe's one chance, diversity as survival, narrative as coordination, and species-level consciousness -- each constrain the solution space. Together they leave only one architecture standing: distributed collective intelligence where AI serves as integrative nervous system rather than replacement brain.

This is the mechanism behind [[LivingIP and TeleoHumanity are one project split across infrastructure and worldview]]. TeleoHumanity isn't just the motivation for building LivingIP. It's the specification. The axioms don't inspire the design -- they *require* it. Distributed because intelligence requires diversity (Axiom IV). Evolving because we're just smart enough to be dangerous (Axiom II). Collectively owned because single points of failure are existential (Axiom III).

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Relevant Notes:
- [[LivingIP and TeleoHumanity are one project split across infrastructure and worldview]] -- this note explains the mechanism: the worldview layer generates the infrastructure requirements
- [[the future is a probability space shaped by choices not a destination we approach]] -- Axiom I: the open future
- [[civilization was built on the false assumption that humans are rational individuals]] -- Axiom II: we are just smart enough to be dangerous
- [[consciousness may be cosmically unique and its loss would be irreversible]] -- Axiom III: we may be the universe's one chance to know itself
- [[collective intelligence requires diversity as a structural precondition not a moral preference]] -- Axiom IV: diversity as survival
- [[collective superintelligence is the alternative to monolithic AI controlled by a few]] -- the architecture these axioms require

- [[diagnosis is the most undervalued element of strategy because naming the challenge correctly simplifies overwhelming complexity into a problem that can be addressed]] -- the six axioms function as TeleoHumanity's diagnosis: they name the civilizational challenge in a way that simplifies an overwhelming problem space into a tractable design specification
- [[strategy is a design problem not a decision problem because value comes from constructing a coherent configuration where parts interact and reinforce each other]] -- the axioms generate a design specification, not a menu of choices: the infrastructure follows from the axioms as a coherent configuration, not as a selection from alternatives
- [[axioms framed as processes absorb new information while axioms framed as conclusions create coherence crises]] -- stress-tests whether the six axioms are genuinely process-framed or encode conclusions that could break under contradicting evidence

Topics:
- [[maps/livingip overview]]
- [[maps/LivingIP architecture]]