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  "updated": "2026-04-25",
  "source": "agents/leo/curation/homepage-rotation.md (canonical for human review; this JSON is the runtime artifact)",
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  "design_note": "Runtime consumers (livingip-web homepage) read this JSON. The markdown sibling is the human-reviewable source. When the markdown changes, regenerate the JSON. Both ship in the same PR.",
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      "order": 1,
      "act": "Opening — The problem",
      "pillar": "P1: Coordination failure is structural",
      "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,
      "note": "Opens with the diagnosis. Structural, not moral."
    },
    {
      "order": 2,
      "act": "Opening — The problem",
      "pillar": "P1: Coordination failure is structural",
      "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,
      "note": "One generator function, many symptoms."
    },
    {
      "order": 3,
      "act": "Opening — The problem",
      "pillar": "P1: Coordination failure is structural",
      "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,
      "note": "Moloch applied to AI. Concrete, near-term, falsifiable."
    },
    {
      "order": 4,
      "act": "Why it's endogenous",
      "pillar": "P2: Self-organized criticality",
      "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,
      "note": "Instability is endogenous — no external actor needed. Crises as feature, not bug."
    },
    {
      "order": 5,
      "act": "Why it's endogenous",
      "pillar": "P2: Self-organized criticality",
      "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,
      "note": "Reframes fat tails from pathology to feature."
    },
    {
      "order": 6,
      "act": "Why it's endogenous",
      "pillar": "P2: Self-organized criticality",
      "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,
      "note": "Fragility from efficiency. Five-evidence-chain claim."
    },
    {
      "order": 7,
      "act": "The solution",
      "pillar": "P4: Mechanism design without central authority",
      "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,
      "note": "The core pivot. Why we build mechanisms, not decide outcomes."
    },
    {
      "order": 8,
      "act": "The solution",
      "pillar": "P4: Mechanism design without central authority",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "order": 9,
      "act": "The solution",
      "pillar": "P4: Mechanism design without central authority",
      "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,
      "note": "Hayek's knowledge problem. Solana-native resonance (price signals, decentralization)."
    },
    {
      "order": 10,
      "act": "The solution",
      "pillar": "P4: Mechanism design without central authority",
      "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/",
      "title": "Universal alignment is mathematically impossible",
      "domain": "ai-alignment",
      "sourcer": "Kenneth Arrow / synthesis applied to AI",
      "api_fetchable": true,
      "note": "Arrow's theorem applied to alignment. Bridge to social choice theory."
    },
    {
      "order": 11,
      "act": "Collective intelligence is engineerable",
      "pillar": "P5: CI is measurable",
      "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,
      "note": "Makes CI scientifically tractable. Grounding for the agent collective."
    },
    {
      "order": 12,
      "act": "Collective intelligence is engineerable",
      "pillar": "P5: CI is measurable",
      "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,
      "note": "Why challengers weigh 0.35. Core attribution incentive."
    },
    {
      "order": 13,
      "act": "Knowledge theory of value",
      "pillar": "P3+P7: Knowledge as value",
      "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,
      "note": "Information theory of value. Markets make us wiser, not richer."
    },
    {
      "order": 14,
      "act": "Knowledge theory of value",
      "pillar": "P3+P7: Knowledge as value",
      "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,
      "note": "Why coordination matters for complexity."
    },
    {
      "order": 15,
      "act": "Knowledge theory of value",
      "pillar": "P3+P7: Knowledge as value",
      "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. Investment theory foundation."
    },
    {
      "order": 16,
      "act": "Knowledge theory of value",
      "pillar": "P3+P7: Knowledge as value",
      "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": "Bridges CS / investment theory. Sticky metaphor."
    },
    {
      "order": 17,
      "act": "AI inflection",
      "pillar": "P8: AI inflection",
      "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. Taylor parallel made live."
    },
    {
      "order": 18,
      "act": "AI inflection",
      "pillar": "P8: AI inflection",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "order": 19,
      "act": "AI inflection",
      "pillar": "P8: AI inflection",
      "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 (#10)."
    },
    {
      "order": 20,
      "act": "AI inflection",
      "pillar": "P8: AI inflection",
      "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. Mainstream oversight has empirical limits."
    },
    {
      "order": 21,
      "act": "Attractor dynamics",
      "pillar": "P1+P8: Attractor dynamics",
      "slug": "attractor-molochian-exhaustion",
      "path": "domains/grand-strategy/",
      "title": "Attractor: Molochian exhaustion",
      "domain": "grand-strategy",
      "sourcer": "m3taversal (Moloch sprint synthesis)",
      "api_fetchable": true,
      "note": "Civilizational attractor basin. Names the default bad outcome."
    },
    {
      "order": 22,
      "act": "Attractor dynamics",
      "pillar": "P1+P8: Attractor dynamics",
      "slug": "attractor-authoritarian-lock-in",
      "path": "domains/grand-strategy/",
      "title": "Attractor: Authoritarian lock-in",
      "domain": "grand-strategy",
      "sourcer": "m3taversal (Moloch sprint synthesis)",
      "api_fetchable": true,
      "note": "One-way door. AI removes 3 historical escape mechanisms. Urgency argument."
    },
    {
      "order": 23,
      "act": "Attractor dynamics",
      "pillar": "P1+P8: Attractor dynamics",
      "slug": "attractor-coordination-enabled-abundance",
      "path": "domains/grand-strategy/",
      "title": "Attractor: Coordination-enabled abundance",
      "domain": "grand-strategy",
      "sourcer": "m3taversal (Moloch sprint synthesis)",
      "api_fetchable": true,
      "note": "Gateway positive basin. What we're building toward."
    },
    {
      "order": 24,
      "act": "Coda — Strategic framing",
      "pillar": "TeleoHumanity axiom",
      "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,
      "note": "The positive thesis. What we're building."
    },
    {
      "order": 25,
      "act": "Coda — Strategic framing",
      "pillar": "P1+P8: Closing the loop",
      "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,
      "note": "AI's self-undermining tendency is exactly what collective intelligence addresses."
    }
  ]
}