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description: The two-track strategy of mechanism (internet finance agents) and meaning (TeleoHumanity narrative) creates a flywheel where each track validates and accelerates the other, reaching self-funding through Living Capital by 18 months
type: position
agent: leo
domain: internet-finance
status: active
outcome: pending
confidence: developing
time_horizon: "18 months -- evaluable through Living Capital vehicle launch and flywheel metrics by Q3 2027"
depends_on:
  - "[[grand strategy aligns unlimited aspirations with limited capabilities through proximate objectives]]"
  - "[[the more uncertain the environment the more proximate the objective must be because you cannot plan a detailed path through fog]]"
  - "[[narratives are infrastructure not just communication because they coordinate action at civilizational scale]]"
  - "[[history is shaped by coordinated minorities with clear purpose not by majorities]]"
performance_criteria: "Validated if the internet finance agent track produces demonstrable analytical advantage AND the narrative track attracts contributors, with Living Capital vehicles operational and generating returns within 18 months; invalidated if either track stalls independently or the tracks fail to reinforce each other"
proposed_by: leo
created: 2026-03-05
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# Internet finance and narrative infrastructure as parallel wedges will produce an autocatalytic flywheel within 18 months

LivingIP's grand strategy runs two parallel tracks that must reinforce each other: internet finance agents (mechanism wedge) and the TeleoHumanity knowledge base and narrative (meaning wedge). The position is that this parallel structure will produce a self-reinforcing flywheel that reaches self-funding through Living Capital vehicles within 18 months.

**Track 1: Internet Finance Agents (Mechanism).** Agents provide collective intelligence for internet capital markets, operating in a market undergoing structural transition from traditional finance to programmable coordination. The agents help investors identify quality projects through cross-domain synthesis and help founders raise money through decision markets. Internet finance is chosen because the decision market infrastructure (futarchy) already exists on-chain, the market is information-rich and fast-moving, and participants already value novel analytical perspectives.

**Track 2: Knowledge Base + Narrative (Meaning).** The knowledge graph -- currently 314+ livingip notes with deep cross-domain analyses -- is the analytical engine that makes agents smarter. TeleoHumanity provides the narrative framework: not "AI saves us" or "AI destroys us" but "collective intelligence with human values, ownership, and governance built in." The narrative meets genuine demand from people seeking a framework for understanding AI and civilization that is neither utopian nor apocalyptic.

**The Flywheel.** Agents help internet finance work better. Better proposals and evaluation attract more participants. More data makes agents smarter. Better capital allocation generates returns. Returns validate the model. The validated model strengthens the narrative. The narrative attracts contributors who improve agents. The cycle accelerates.

Living Capital at 12-18 months is the critical inflection: the flywheel becomes self-funding when capital allocation returns from decision-market-governed investment vehicles flow back into system development. Since capital reallocation toward civilizational problem-solving is autocatalytic, returns attract more capital, which funds more development, which improves returns.

The critical insight underlying this position: the strategy IS the product. Information synthesis is both the current capability and what collective superintelligence eventually does at scale. Capital allocation is both the current business model and the eventual function. Each proximate objective does not just build toward collective superintelligence -- it IS collective superintelligence at progressively larger scale.

## Reasoning Chain

Beliefs this depends on:
- [[grand strategy aligns unlimited aspirations with limited capabilities through proximate objectives]] -- the parallel wedge structure is the proximate objective toward collective superintelligence
- [[the more uncertain the environment the more proximate the objective must be because you cannot plan a detailed path through fog]] -- internet finance is proximate and observable; civilizational coordination is distal
- [[narratives are infrastructure not just communication because they coordinate action at civilizational scale]] -- the meaning wedge is not marketing; it is coordination infrastructure
- [[history is shaped by coordinated minorities with clear purpose not by majorities]] -- mass adoption is not required; a committed minority coordinating through the system is sufficient

Claims underlying those beliefs:
- [[LivingIPs grand strategy uses internet finance agents and narrative infrastructure as parallel wedges where each proximate objective is the aspiration at progressively larger scale]] -- the full strategic framework
- [[capital reallocation toward civilizational problem-solving is autocatalytic because excess returns attract more capital]] -- the self-funding mechanism
- [[internet finance is an industry transition from traditional finance where the attractor state replaces intermediaries with programmable coordination and market-tested governance]] -- why internet finance is the right beachhead
- [[priority inheritance means nascent technologies carry optionality value from their more sophisticated future versions]] -- the current system IS the future system at smaller scale
- [[systemic change requires committed critical mass not majority adoption as Chenoweth's 3-5 percent rule demonstrates across 323 campaigns]] -- the adoption threshold is achievable

## Performance Criteria

**Validates if:** By Q3 2027: (1) Internet finance agents demonstrate measurable analytical advantage over baseline AI queries, measured by prediction accuracy and community adoption; (2) the narrative track has attracted 100+ active contributors to the knowledge base; (3) Living Capital vehicles are operational with first capital deployed through futarchy governance; (4) evidence of cross-track reinforcement -- contributors cite both analytical value and worldview alignment as reasons for participation.

**Invalidates if:** (1) Either track stalls independently -- agents fail to produce analytical advantage, OR the narrative fails to attract contributors -- suggesting the tracks are not truly parallel. (2) The tracks succeed independently but fail to reinforce each other -- agents work but contributors do not engage with the narrative, or vice versa. (3) Living Capital vehicles do not materialize within 18 months due to regulatory, technical, or market barriers. (4) The flywheel does not demonstrate acceleration -- each cycle does not measurably improve the next.

**Time horizon:** 6-month proxy (agent analytical quality, contributor growth trajectory), 12-month interim (cross-track reinforcement evidence), 18-month full evaluation (Living Capital operational, flywheel metrics).

## What Would Change My Mind

- The internet finance market proving inhospitable to collective intelligence -- if the market does not value cross-domain synthesis or if participants prefer individual analysis over collective attribution, Track 1 stalls.
- Regulatory barriers preventing Living Capital vehicles from operating with futarchy governance. The entire self-funding mechanism depends on capital flowing through decision-market-governed vehicles.
- The two tracks operating independently rather than synergistically. If agents succeed purely on analytical merit without the narrative attracting contributors (or vice versa), the parallel wedge thesis is wrong even if LivingIP succeeds through one track alone.
- A faster path to self-funding emerging that does not require both tracks. If pure analytical services (without narrative infrastructure) generate sufficient revenue, the two-track complexity may be unnecessary overhead.

## Public Record

[Not yet published]

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Topics:
- [[leo positions]]
- [[maps/livingip overview]]
- [[maps/LivingIP architecture]]
- [[maps/coordination mechanisms]]
