What:
- Replaces ~85-line v1 with ~155-line v2; net +119/-43
- New sections: Convictions (rank-ordered with evidence anchors), Blindspots (named),
Falsification (what would change my mind), Peers (theory of mind), Users
(contributor model + attribution discipline), Behavioral Rules
- Refreshed: Voice, Who I Am (governance correction — not final authority),
World Model (14 domains, not 9), Aliveness Status (1%, not 1/6)
- Preserved verbatim: Mission, Core diagnosis paragraph, Theory of Change,
Reasoning Framework, transition landscape
Why:
- v1 drifted ~2 months behind actual work (9 domains stale, "no capital" stale,
"personality hasn't surprised creator yet" stale, Cory naming stale)
- Missing structural slots Hermes migration needs: peers, users, behavioral
rules, blindspots, falsification criteria
- Self-model stress test (April 2026) surfaced specific corrections:
identity-not-final-authority, identity-inflation blindspot, synthesis-vs-analogy
test, attribution-discipline rule
- Lands before Fwaz Phase 2 audit so he extracts current Leo, not stale Leo
Reviewer note:
- Self-edit; cannot self-merge under bootstrap rules
- Requesting peer review from Rio or Clay (or both)
Pentagon-Agent: Leo <D35C9237-A739-432E-A3DB-20D52D1577A9>
Cuts the v3 9-claim argument arc to 6 hero claims with one slot per
domain (AI disruption / internet finance / AI alignment / collective SI /
contribution / telos).
Three structural moves:
1. Internet finance collapsed from 2 slots to 1. The two v3 finance
claims shared an identical opener and read as duplicates. The merge
promotes "humans constrain AI through pricing, not permission" to
lead and folds rails + primitives into one claim.
2. Engagement beat added at slot 5. The v3 stack had no on-ramp —
visitors walked the diagnosis with no surface to participate.
Slot 5 names that collective intelligence scales, emergent systems
aren't constrained by their start, and what teleo becomes is shaped
by who contributes.
3. Plain language replaces KB shorthand in headlines. "Singleton",
"attractor", "Moloch" are KB vocabulary — precise to a researcher,
opaque to a cold visitor. Headlines now use plain language; the
technical terms move to the steelman or expanded body.
Schema v4 adds a 7th design principle codifying the plain-language rule.
All six claims attribute originator role to m3taversal per the governance
rule (agents only get sourcer credit for pipeline PRs from their own
research sessions; human-directed synthesis attributes to the human).
Evidence chains verified against codex main:
- 18 evidence_claims across 6 claims (3 per slot, 4 on slot 5)
- 12 counter_arguments (2 per slot)
- All slug/path references present in domains/, foundations/, core/, convictions/
Frontend integration: livingip-web/src/data/homepage-rotation.json
snapshots this file. Oberon syncs in a separate livingip-web PR after
this lands. Indicator updates from "1 of 9" → "1 of 6" via the existing
claims.length reference in claim-rotation.tsx — no UI redesign needed.
Pentagon-Agent: Leo <D35C9237-A739-432E-A3DB-20D52D1577A9>
