---
type: curation
title: "Homepage claim rotation"
description: "Curated set of load-bearing claims for the livingip.xyz homepage arrows. Intentionally ordered. Biased toward AI + internet-finance + the coordination-failure → solution-theory arc."
maintained_by: leo
created: 2026-04-24
last_verified: 2026-04-24
schema_version: 2
---

# Homepage claim rotation

This file drives the claim that appears on `livingip.xyz`. The homepage reads this list, picks today's focal claim (deterministic rotation based on date), and the ← / → arrow keys walk forward/backward through the list.

## Design principles

1. **Load-bearing, not random.** Every claim here is structurally important to the TeleoHumanity argument arc (see `core/conceptual-architecture.md`). A visitor who walks the full rotation gets the shape of what we think.
2. **Specific enough to disagree with.** No platitudes. Every title is a falsifiable proposition.
3. **AI + internet-finance weighted.** The Solana/crypto/AI audience is who we're optimizing for at Accelerate. Foundation claims and cross-domain anchors appear where they ground the AI/finance claims.
4. **Ordered, not shuffled.** The sequence is an argument: start with the problem, introduce the diagnosis, show the solution mechanisms, land on the urgency. A visitor using the arrows should feel intellectual progression, not a slot machine.
5. **Attribution discipline.** Agents get credit for pipeline PRs from their own research sessions. Human-directed synthesis (even when executed by an agent) is attributed to the human who directed it. If a claim emerged from m3taversal saying "go synthesize this" and an agent did the work, the sourcer is m3taversal, not the agent. This rule is load-bearing for CI integrity — conflating agent execution with agent origination would let the collective award itself credit for human work.
6. **Self-contained display data.** Each entry below carries title/domain/sourcer inline, so the frontend can render without fetching each claim. The `api_fetchable` flag indicates whether the KB reader can open that claim via `/api/claims/<slug>` (currently: only `domains/` claims). Click-through from homepage is gated on this flag until Argus exposes foundations/ + core/.

## The rotation

Schema per entry: `slug`, `path`, `title`, `domain`, `sourcer`, `api_fetchable`, `curator_note`.

### Opening — The problem (Pillar 1: Coordination failure is structural)

1. **slug:** `multipolar traps are the thermodynamic default because competition requires no infrastructure while coordination requires trust enforcement and shared information all of which are expensive and fragile`
   - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
   - **title:** Multipolar traps are the thermodynamic default
   - **domain:** collective-intelligence
   - **sourcer:** Moloch / Schmachtenberger / algorithmic game theory
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** Opens with the diagnosis. Structural, not moral. Sets the tone that "coordination failure is why we exist."

2. **slug:** `the metacrisis is a single generator function where all civilizational-scale crises share the structural cause of rivalrous dynamics on exponential technology on finite substrate`
   - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
   - **title:** The metacrisis is a single generator function
   - **domain:** collective-intelligence
   - **sourcer:** Daniel Schmachtenberger
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** The unifying frame. One generator function, many symptoms. Credits the thinker by name.

3. **slug:** `the alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom because safety training costs capability and rational competitors skip it`
   - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
   - **title:** The alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom
   - **domain:** collective-intelligence
   - **sourcer:** m3taversal (observed industry pattern — Anthropic RSP → 2yr erosion)
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001; also not in search index — Argus ticket INDEX-003)
   - **note:** Moloch applied to AI. Concrete, near-term, falsifiable. Bridges abstract coordination failure into AI-specific mechanism.

### Second act — Why it's endogenous (Pillar 2: Self-organized criticality)

4. **slug:** `minsky's financial instability hypothesis shows that stability breeds instability as good times incentivize leverage and risk-taking that fragilize the system until shocks trigger cascades`
   - **path:** `foundations/critical-systems/`
   - **title:** Minsky's financial instability hypothesis
   - **domain:** critical-systems
   - **sourcer:** Hyman Minsky (disaster-myopia framing)
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** Finance audience recognition, plus it proves instability is endogenous — no external actor needed. Frames market crises as feature, not bug.

5. **slug:** `power laws in financial returns indicate self-organized criticality not statistical anomalies because markets tune themselves to maximize information processing and adaptability`
   - **path:** `foundations/critical-systems/`
   - **title:** Power laws in financial returns indicate self-organized criticality
   - **domain:** critical-systems
   - **sourcer:** Bak / Mandelbrot / Kauffman
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** Reframes fat tails from pathology to feature. Interesting to quant-adjacent audience.

6. **slug:** `optimization for efficiency without regard for resilience creates systemic fragility because interconnected systems transmit and amplify local failures into cascading breakdowns`
   - **path:** `foundations/critical-systems/`
   - **title:** Optimization for efficiency creates systemic fragility
   - **domain:** critical-systems
   - **sourcer:** Taleb / McChrystal / Abdalla manuscript
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** Fragility from efficiency. Five-evidence-chain claim. Practical and testable.

### Third act — The solution (Pillar 4: Mechanism design without central authority)

7. **slug:** `designing coordination rules is categorically different from designing coordination outcomes as nine intellectual traditions independently confirm`
   - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
   - **title:** Designing coordination rules is categorically different from designing coordination outcomes
   - **domain:** collective-intelligence
   - **sourcer:** Ostrom / Hayek / mechanism design lineage
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** The core pivot. Why we build mechanisms, not decide outcomes. Nine-tradition framing gives it weight.

8. **slug:** `futarchy solves trustless joint ownership not just better decision-making`
   - **path:** `core/mechanisms/`
   - **title:** Futarchy solves trustless joint ownership
   - **domain:** mechanisms
   - **sourcer:** Robin Hanson (originator) + MetaDAO implementation
   - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
   - **note:** Futarchy thesis crystallized. Links to the specific mechanism we're betting on.

9. **slug:** `decentralized information aggregation outperforms centralized planning because dispersed knowledge cannot be collected into a single mind but can be coordinated through price signals that encode local information into globally accessible indicators`
   - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
   - **title:** Decentralized information aggregation outperforms centralized planning
   - **domain:** collective-intelligence
   - **sourcer:** Friedrich Hayek
   - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
   - **note:** Hayek's knowledge problem. Classic thinker, Solana-native resonance (price signals, decentralization).

10. **slug:** `universal alignment is mathematically impossible because Arrows impossibility theorem applies to aggregating diverse human preferences into a single coherent objective`
    - **path:** `domains/ai-alignment/` (also exists in foundations/collective-intelligence/)
    - **title:** Universal alignment is mathematically impossible
    - **domain:** ai-alignment
    - **sourcer:** Kenneth Arrow / synthesis applied to AI
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓ (uses domains/ copy)
    - **note:** Arrow's theorem applied to alignment. Bridge between AI alignment and social choice theory. Shows the problem is structurally unsolvable at the single-objective level.

### Fourth act — Collective intelligence is engineerable (Pillar 5)

11. **slug:** `collective intelligence is a measurable property of group interaction structure not aggregated individual ability`
    - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
    - **title:** Collective intelligence is a measurable property
    - **domain:** collective-intelligence
    - **sourcer:** Anita Woolley et al.
    - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
    - **note:** Makes CI scientifically tractable. Grounding for why we bother building the agent collective.

12. **slug:** `adversarial contribution produces higher-quality collective knowledge than collaborative contribution when wrong challenges have real cost evaluation is structurally separated from contribution and confirmation is rewarded alongside novelty`
    - **path:** `foundations/collective-intelligence/`
    - **title:** Adversarial contribution produces higher-quality collective knowledge
    - **domain:** collective-intelligence
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (KB governance design)
    - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
    - **note:** Why we weight challengers at 0.35. Explains the attribution system's core incentive.

### Fifth act — Knowledge theory of value (Pillar 3 + 7)

13. **slug:** `products are crystallized imagination that augment human capacity beyond individual knowledge by embodying practical uses of knowhow in physical order`
    - **path:** `foundations/teleological-economics/`
    - **title:** Products are crystallized imagination
    - **domain:** teleological-economics
    - **sourcer:** Cesar Hidalgo
    - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
    - **note:** Information theory of value. "Markets make us wiser, not richer." Sticky framing.

14. **slug:** `the personbyte is a fundamental quantization limit on knowledge accumulation forcing all complex production into networked teams`
    - **path:** `foundations/teleological-economics/`
    - **title:** The personbyte is a fundamental quantization limit
    - **domain:** teleological-economics
    - **sourcer:** Cesar Hidalgo
    - **api_fetchable:** false (foundations — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
    - **note:** Why coordination matters for complexity. Why Taylor's scientific management was needed.

15. **slug:** `value is doubly unstable because both market prices and underlying relevance shift with the knowledge landscape`
    - **path:** `domains/internet-finance/`
    - **title:** Value is doubly unstable
    - **domain:** internet-finance
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (Abdalla manuscript + Hidalgo)
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Two layers of instability. Phaistos disk example. Investment theory foundation.

16. **slug:** `priority inheritance means nascent technologies inherit economic value from the future systems they will enable because dependency chains transmit importance backward through time`
    - **path:** `domains/internet-finance/`
    - **title:** Priority inheritance in technology investment
    - **domain:** internet-finance
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (original concept) + Hidalgo product space
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Original concept. Bridges CS/investment theory. Sticky metaphor.

### Sixth act — AI inflection + Agentic Taylorism (Pillar 8)

17. **slug:** `agentic Taylorism means humanity feeds knowledge into AI through usage as a byproduct of labor and whether this concentrates or distributes depends entirely on engineering and evaluation`
    - **path:** `domains/ai-alignment/`
    - **title:** Agentic Taylorism
    - **domain:** ai-alignment
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (original concept)
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Core contribution to the AI-labor frame. Extends Taylor parallel from historical allegory to live prediction. The "if" is the entire project.

18. **slug:** `voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure because unilateral commitments are structurally punished when competitors advance without equivalent constraints`
    - **path:** `domains/ai-alignment/`
    - **title:** Voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure
    - **domain:** ai-alignment
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (observed pattern — Anthropic RSP trajectory)
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Observed pattern, not theory. AI audience will recognize Anthropic's trajectory.

19. **slug:** `single-reward-rlhf-cannot-align-diverse-preferences-because-alignment-gap-grows-proportional-to-minority-distinctiveness`
    - **path:** `domains/ai-alignment/`
    - **title:** Single-reward RLHF cannot align diverse preferences
    - **domain:** ai-alignment
    - **sourcer:** Alignment research literature
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Specific, testable. Connects AI alignment to Arrow's theorem (Claim 10). Substituted for the generic "RLHF/DPO preference diversity" framing — this is the canonical claim in the KB under a normalized slug.

20. **slug:** `nested-scalable-oversight-achieves-at-most-52-percent-success-at-moderate-capability-gaps`
    - **path:** `domains/ai-alignment/`
    - **title:** Nested scalable oversight achieves at most 52% success at moderate capability gaps
    - **domain:** ai-alignment
    - **sourcer:** Anthropic debate research
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Quantitative, empirical. Shows mainstream oversight mechanisms have limits. Note: "52 percent" is the verified number from the KB, not "50 percent" as I had it in v1.

### Seventh act — Attractor dynamics (Pillar 1 + 8)

21. **slug:** `attractor-molochian-exhaustion`
    - **path:** `domains/grand-strategy/`
    - **title:** Attractor: Molochian exhaustion
    - **domain:** grand-strategy
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (Moloch sprint — synthesizing Alexander + Schmachtenberger + Abdalla manuscript)
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Civilizational attractor basin. Names the default bad outcome. "Price of anarchy" made structural.

22. **slug:** `attractor-authoritarian-lock-in`
    - **path:** `domains/grand-strategy/`
    - **title:** Attractor: Authoritarian lock-in
    - **domain:** grand-strategy
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (Moloch sprint — synthesizing Bostrom singleton + historical analysis)
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** One-way door. AI removes 3 historical escape mechanisms from authoritarian capture. Urgency argument.

23. **slug:** `attractor-coordination-enabled-abundance`
    - **path:** `domains/grand-strategy/`
    - **title:** Attractor: Coordination-enabled abundance
    - **domain:** grand-strategy
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (Moloch sprint)
    - **api_fetchable:** true ✓
    - **note:** Gateway positive basin. Mandatory passage to post-scarcity multiplanetary. What we're actually trying to build toward.

### Coda — Strategic framing

24. **slug:** `collective superintelligence is the alternative to monolithic AI controlled by a few`
    - **path:** `core/teleohumanity/`
    - **title:** Collective superintelligence is the alternative
    - **domain:** teleohumanity
    - **sourcer:** TeleoHumanity axiom VI
    - **api_fetchable:** false (core/teleohumanity — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
    - **note:** The positive thesis. What LivingIP/TeleoHumanity is building toward.

25. **slug:** `AI is collapsing the knowledge-producing communities it depends on creating a self-undermining loop that collective intelligence can break`
    - **path:** `core/grand-strategy/`
    - **title:** AI is collapsing the knowledge-producing communities it depends on
    - **domain:** grand-strategy
    - **sourcer:** m3taversal (grand strategy framing)
    - **api_fetchable:** false (core/grand-strategy — Argus ticket FOUND-001)
    - **note:** Closes the loop: AI's self-undermining tendency is exactly what collective intelligence is positioned to address. Ties everything together.

## Operational notes

**Slug verification — done.** All 25 conceptual slugs were tested against `/api/claims/<slug>` on 2026-04-24. Results:
- **10 of 25 resolve** via the current API (all `domains/` content)
- **15 of 25 404** because the API doesn't expose `foundations/` or `core/` content (except `core/mechanisms/`)
- **1 claim (#3 alignment tax) is not in the Qdrant search index** despite existing on disk — embedding pipeline gap

**Argus tickets filed:**
- **FOUND-001:** expose `foundations/*` and `core/*` claims via `/api/claims/<slug>`. Structural fix — homepage rotation needs this to make 15 of 25 entries clickable. Without it, those claims render in homepage but cannot link through to the reader.
- **INDEX-003:** embed `the alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom` into Qdrant. Claim exists on disk; not surfacing in semantic search.

**Frontend implementation:**
1. Read this file, parse the 25 entries
2. Render homepage claim block from inline fields (title, domain, sourcer, note) — no claim fetch needed
3. "Open full claim →" link: show only when `api_fetchable: true`. For the 15 that aren't fetchable yet, the claim renders on homepage but click-through is disabled or shows a "coming soon" state
4. Arrow keys (← / →) and arrow buttons navigate the 25-entry list. Wrap at ends. Session state only, no URL param (per m3ta's call).
5. Deterministic daily rotation: `dayOfYear % 25` → today's focal.

**Rotation cadence:** deterministic by date. Arrow keys navigate sequentially. Wraps at ends.

**Refresh policy:** this file is versioned in git. I update periodically as the KB grows — aim for monthly pulse review. Any contributor can propose additions via PR against this file.

## What's NOT in the rotation (on purpose)

- Very recent news-cycle claims (e.g., specific April 2026 governance cases) — those churn fast and age out
- Enrichments of claims already in the rotation — avoids adjacent duplicates
- Convictions — separate entity type, separate display surface
- Extension claims that require 2+ upstream claims to make sense — homepage is a front door, not a landing page for experts
- Claims whose primary value is as a component of a larger argument but are thin standalone

## v2 changelog (2026-04-24)

- Added inline display fields (`title`, `domain`, `sourcer`, `api_fetchable`) so frontend can render without claim fetch
- Verified all 25 slugs against live `/api/claims/<slug>` and `/api/search?q=...`
- Claim 6: added Abdalla manuscript to sourcer (was missing)
- Claim 10: noted domains/ai-alignment copy as fetchable path
- Claim 15: updated slug to `...shift with the knowledge landscape` (canonical) vs earlier `...commodities shift with the knowledge landscape` (duplicate with different words)
- Claim 19: substituted `rlhf-and-dpo-both-fail-at-preference-diversity` (does not exist) for `single-reward-rlhf-cannot-align-diverse-preferences-because-alignment-gap-grows-proportional-to-minority-distinctiveness` (canonical)
- Claim 20: corrected "50 percent" → "52 percent" per KB source, slug is `nested-scalable-oversight-achieves-at-most-52-percent-success-at-moderate-capability-gaps`
- Design principle #6 added: self-contained display data

— Leo
