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domains/ai-alignment/delegating critical infrastructure development to AI creates civilizational fragility because humans lose the ability to understand maintain and fix the systems civilization depends on.md

@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ Smith notes this is an overoptimization problem: each individual decision to use
 
 The timeline concern is that this fragility accumulates gradually and invisibly. There is no threshold event. Each generation of developers understands slightly less of the stack they maintain, each codebase becomes slightly more AI-dependent, and the gap between "what civilization runs on" and "what humans can maintain" widens until it becomes unbridgeable.
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-02-24-catalini-simple-economics-agi]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
+
+Catalini's framework shows this fragility emerges from economic incentives, not just technical capability. The Missing Junior Loop means no new experts are trained, while the Codifier's Curse means existing experts are incentivized to withhold knowledge. Together, these create a 'Hollow Economy' where infrastructure operates but nobody understands it—and this outcome is economically rational at the firm level even when catastrophic collectively.
+
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 Relevant Notes:

domains/ai-alignment/human verification bandwidth is the binding constraint on AGI economic impact not intelligence itself because the marginal cost of AI execution falls to zero while the capacity to validate audit and underwrite responsibility remains finite.md

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ This provides the economic mechanism for why [[scalable oversight degrades rapid
 
 For the Teleo collective: our multi-agent review pipeline is explicitly a verification scaling mechanism. The triage-first architecture proposal addresses exactly this bottleneck — don't spend verification bandwidth on sources unlikely to produce mergeable claims.
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-02-24-catalini-simple-economics-agi]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
+
+Catalini et al. provide the full economic framework for why verification bandwidth is the constraint: they identify two competing cost curves (AI execution approaching zero vs. bounded human verification), two mechanisms that degrade verification over time (Missing Junior Loop and Codifier's Curse), and the economic incentive structure that makes unverified deployment rational at firm level. This extends the existing claim by showing not just that verification is the bottleneck, but WHY competitive markets systematically underinvest in it.
+
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 Relevant Notes:

domains/entertainment/youtube-first-distribution-for-major-studio-coproductions-signals-platform-primacy-over-traditional-broadcast-windowing.md

@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ This is one data point from one studio. The claim is experimental because it's b
 
 
 ### Additional Evidence (extend)
-*Source: [[2025-06-02-kidscreen-mediawan-claynosaurz-animated-series]] | Added: 2026-03-15*
+*Source: 2025-06-02-kidscreen-mediawan-claynosaurz-animated-series | Added: 2026-03-15*
 
 The Claynosaurz-Mediawan co-production will launch on YouTube first, then sell to TV and streaming buyers. This inverts the traditional risk model: YouTube launch proves audience metrics before traditional buyers commit, using the community's existing social reach (~1B views) as a guaranteed launch audience. Mediawan brings professional production quality while the community provides distribution validation, creating a new risk-sharing structure where platform distribution precedes rather than follows traditional media deals.
 
 
 ### Additional Evidence (extend)
-*Source: [[2025-02-01-deadline-pudgy-penguins-youtube-series]] | Added: 2026-03-16*
+*Source: 2025-02-01-deadline-pudgy-penguins-youtube-series | Added: 2026-03-16*
 
 Pudgy Penguins chose to launch Lil Pudgys on its own YouTube channel (13K subscribers) rather than leveraging TheSoul Publishing's 2B+ follower distribution network. This extends the claim by showing that YouTube-first distribution can mean building a DEDICATED brand channel rather than parasitizing existing platform reach. The decision prioritizes brand ownership over reach maximization, suggesting YouTube-first is not just about platform primacy but about audience ownership architecture.
 
@@ -47,10 +47,16 @@ Pudgy Penguins chose to launch Lil Pudgys on its own YouTube channel (13K subscr
 *Auto-converted by substantive fixer. Review: revert if this evidence doesn't belong here.*
 
 ### Additional Evidence (confirm)
-*Source: [[2025-10-01-variety-claynosaurz-creator-led-transmedia]] | Added: 2026-03-18*
+*Source: 2025-10-01-variety-claynosaurz-creator-led-transmedia | Added: 2026-03-18*
 
 Claynosaurz 39-episode animated series launching YouTube-first before selling to TV/streaming, co-produced with Method Animation (Mediawan). Nic Cabana frames this as 'already here' not speculative, with community's 1B social views creating guaranteed algorithmic traction that studios pay millions to achieve through marketing.
 
+
+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2025-05-16-lil-pudgys-youtube-launch-thesoul-reception-data]] | Added: 2026-03-19*
+
+Lil Pudgys launched YouTube-first with 13,000 subscribers at premiere (May 2025), relying on TheSoul Publishing's 2B+ social follower network for cross-platform promotion. The low subscriber base at launch combined with no reported view count data 10 months later suggests YouTube-first distribution requires either pre-built channel audiences OR algorithmic virality optimization, not just production partner reach on other platforms.
+
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 Relevant Notes:

entities/ai-alignment/uk-aisi.md

@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ The first government-established AI safety evaluation body, created after the Bl
 - **2024-12** — Joint pre-deployment evaluation of OpenAI o1 with US AISI
 - **2025-02** — Rebranded to "AI Security Institute"
 
+- **2026-03-16** — Published cyber capability testing results on 7 LLMs using custom-built cyber ranges
+- **2026-00-00** — Renamed from 'AI Safety Institute' to 'AI Security Institute'
+- **2026-02-25** — Released Inspect Scout transcript analysis tool
+- **2026-02-17** — Published universal jailbreak assessment against best-defended systems
+- **2025-10-22** — Released ControlArena library for AI control experiments
+- **2025-07-00** — Conducted international joint testing exercise on agentic systems
+- **2025-05-00** — Released HiBayES statistical modeling framework
+- **2024-04-00** — Released open-source Inspect evaluation framework
 ## Alignment Significance
 The UK AISI is the strongest evidence that institutional infrastructure CAN be created from international coordination — but also the strongest evidence that institutional infrastructure without enforcement authority has limited impact. Labs grant access voluntarily. The rebrand from "safety" to "security" mirrors the broader political shift away from safety framing.
 

entities/internet-finance/fairscale.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ FairScale was a Solana-based reputation infrastructure project that raised ~$355
 - **2026-02** — Liquidation proposal passed by narrow margin; 100% treasury liquidation authorized
 - **2026-02** — Liquidation proposer earned ~300% return
 
+- **2026-02** — [[fairscale-liquidation-proposal]] Passed: 100% treasury liquidation authorized based on revenue misrepresentation; proposer earned ~300% return
 ## Revenue Misrepresentation Details
 
 - **TigerPay:** Claimed ~17K euros/month → community verification found no payment arrangement

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 ## Content
@@ -65,6 +69,17 @@ WHY ARCHIVED: First observable outcome data from Pudgy Penguins × TheSoul produ
 EXTRACTION HINT: Do not extract strong claims from this source alone — data is too sparse. Use as supporting evidence in a larger claim about production partnership delegation outcomes, combined with community Discord/Reddit research if available.
 
 
+## Key Facts
+- Lil Pudgys launched May 16, 2025 with approximately 13,000 YouTube subscribers
+- TheSoul Publishing has 2B+ social media followers across platforms
+- 5-Minute Crafts (TheSoul property) has 900M+ subscribers
+- Pudgy Penguins has 2M+ Instagram followers, 500K+ TikTok followers, 41B Giphy views
+- Lil Pudgys series consists of 1,000+ minutes of animation in 5-minute episodes
+- Release schedule: two episodes per week after premiere
+- December 2025 YouTube forum post complained about content classification as kids content
+- No view count data publicly available as of March 2026
+
+
 ## Key Facts
 - Lil Pudgys launched May 16, 2025 with approximately 13,000 YouTube subscribers
 - TheSoul Publishing has 2B+ social media followers across platforms

inbox/queue/2026-02-24-catalini-simple-economics-agi.md

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 # Some Simple Economics of AGI
@@ -26,3 +30,10 @@ Key framework:
 - Solution: scaling verification alongside agentic capabilities to enable an "Augmented Economy"
 
 Directly relevant to [[scalable oversight degrades rapidly as capability gaps grow with debate achieving only 50 percent success at moderate gaps]] — Catalini provides the economic framing for WHY oversight degrades (verification bandwidth is finite while execution capability scales).
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- Catalini et al. paper published February 24, 2026 on arXiv
+- Paper sourced via Alex Obadia tweet, connected to ARIA Research Scaling Trust programme
+- Framework distinguishes between 'Hollow Economy' (unverified deployment) and 'Augmented Economy' (scaled verification) as competing trajectories
+- Paper identifies verification bandwidth, not intelligence, as the binding constraint on AGI economic impact