orientationresearch noteactive
The programme-level aim: improve the distributed capacity to make worthwhile possibilities reachable, recognizable, testable and realizable.
Meaningful direction: Use cognitive abundance to expand reachable worthwhile futures rather than maximizing idea output.
adjacent possiblecognitive toolsselectionrealization
Research Note 001
orientationoverviewnone
The current research map, with antecedents and remaining questions kept visible.
Meaningful direction: Orient before descending into papers, notes, methods and evidence.
agalmic economicsepistemic abundancedistributed discoveryrepresentation
Living overview
directionempirical programmeactive
Study how scarce expert review should be allocated without treating acceptance as ground truth. Historical citation Track A stopped outcome-blind; review hold-outs now show that objective-specific simple rules can outperform more elaborate routing ideas.
Meaningful direction: Validate the fixed near-boundary rule under sequential review state and per-stratum preservation requirements before considering deployment or learned routing.
attentionselectionvalidationpeer reviewcognitive abundanceobservability
Active empirical programme · simple boundary rule validated retrospectively
directionpracticeactive
Test whether AI assistance can improve learning and performance in real work while leaving the human able to understand and defend the result.
Meaningful direction: Run the frozen Cognitive Kernel pilot on matched real-world tasks before adding more intervention machinery.
capabilityscholarlinesssoftware engineeringleadershiphuman aitransfer
Active practice
directionpossibilityoption
Develop the meta aim as a lineage-grounded synthesis connecting search, epistemic artefact production, recognition, validation, assimilation and realization to expansion of reachable worthwhile possibilities.
Meaningful direction: Test whether cognitive and autonomous search machinery can safely displace the constraints that currently limit worthwhile frontier expansion.
adjacent possibleinnovation searchcognitive toolsfrontier expansion
Preserved option
directionpossibilityoption
Represent problem framing, generation, recognition, validation, integration and realization without collapsing novelty, priority, contribution or authority.
Meaningful direction: Use the 7 September 2026 epistemic-artefacts/constitutional-attention session as the first end-to-end standards-first discovery episode, then identify genuine provenance gaps.
human aiprovenancediscoverycreditepistemic authority
Preserved option
directionpossibilityoption
Test whether abundance shocks produce useful comparative statics beyond familiar complementarity, bottleneck and attention results.
Meaningful direction: Construct the smallest formal model that can falsify or sharply narrow the Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis.
economicsepistemic abundancescarcitybottlenecksai
Preserved option
directionpossibilityoption
Test whether claim-sensitive, provenance-preserving routing improves evaluation of low-authority contributions.
Meaningful direction: Design a tiny reviewer pilot before building platform machinery.
epistemic handoffknowledge brokeringexpertisevalidation
Preserved option
directionpossibilityoption
Preserve the earlier expert-attention question as lineage for the stronger Attention Allocation programme rather than a parallel active programme.
Meaningful direction: Reuse its preservation diagnostics inside Attention Allocation; reactivate separately only if a distinct empirical question survives.
attentionexpertisemarketsselectioninstitutions
Preserved option
directionpossibilityoption
Ask which upstream forms of abundance most strongly expand downstream feasible capability sets.
Meaningful direction: Complete lineage review across growth, general-purpose technologies, capability theory and energy economics before drafting claims.
economicsenergycomputeknowledgecapabilities
Preserved option
directionpossibilityactive
Use the independent Nemosyne project for measurable experiments on representation, verification and discovery without absorbing its product roadmap into Agalmic Research.
Meaningful direction: Run only experiments where the intervention and outcome can be observed and measured, while keeping ownership separate.
representationnemosynemonetarecognitionvisual analytics
Related experiment
directionpossibilityoption
Separate discovery outputs, warrant, agent-relative understanding, assimilation, capability and frontier effects so uncomprehended machine outputs are not silently promoted to human knowledge.
Meaningful direction: Deepen lineage and test the state model against real human-machine discovery episodes.
epistemic artifactsepistemic opacityassimilationhuman aiknowledge
Preserved option
directionpossibilityoption
Move scarce human intervention from reviewing every candidate toward shaping worthwhile-future objectives, harm/externality constraints, escalation rules and constitutional updates for autonomous frontier search.
Meaningful direction: Formalize and compare against established interactive evolutionary computation, selective oversight, safe exploration and multi-objective optimization.
attentionoversightevolutionary searchfrontier expansionexternalities
Preserved option
directionpossibilityparked
Explore institutions for reliable knowledge whose justification no individual human can survey end-to-end.
Meaningful direction: Keep parked until nearer-term verification work produces concrete mechanisms or evidence.
epistemic opacityverificationfutureai
Parked
evidencenegative resultsupporting
The 1,815-candidate ICLR 2020 design passed technical and lineage gates but none of five primary contrasts could resolve the preregistered five-percentage-point effect, so the system stopped before citation outcomes were queried.
Meaningful direction: Use the negative feasibility result to size a genuinely prospective successor rather than weakening the original gate.
attentionselectionprecisionabstainresearch integrity
ABSTAIN_PRE_OUTCOME · citation outcome sealed
evidencefeasibility resultsupporting
Verified neutral/pre-review 2018–2020 sources plus an optimistic perfect 2017 upper bound reach only 4,502 candidates, below the 4,600 exact-observable target; the convenient ICLR 2021 reviewed-version route is perfectly selection-linked and inadmissible.
Meaningful direction: Recover a selection-neutral additional cohort before another bulk acquisition campaign.
attentionhistorical provenanceselection biassource feasibility
Source gate closed · neutral cohort required
research objectworking papersupporting
A lineage-corrected synthesis of the gap between machine-assisted artefact performance and human comprehension, defence and accountability.
Meaningful direction: Use as a constraint on how the rest of the programme presents machine-assisted claims.
epistemic stewardshipmetacognitiondefensibilityhuman ai
Working Paper 001 · v0.4
research objectdraftoption
A narrow proposal for routing a candidate toward missing epistemic capability while preserving contribution provenance and claim status.
Meaningful direction: Test the handoff as an operational protocol rather than another vocabulary for knowledge brokerage.
epistemic handoffknowledge brokeringabsorptive capacityauthority
Draft · v0.3
research objectresearch notesupporting
A personal operating rule for preserving idea abundance while protecting scarce commitment capacity.
Meaningful direction: Use as the behavioural bridge between the Memory Palace and the Active Frontier.
selectionportfolioattentionpersonal practice
Research Note 002
evidenceliterature reviewsupporting
Maps computational discovery, collective discovery, priority, validation and machine novelty antecedents.
Meaningful direction: Constrains novelty claims around distributed discovery.
human aidiscoverypriorityprovenance
Deep prior-art review
evidenceliterature reviewsupporting
Maps absorptive capacity, transfer stickiness, brokers, intermediaries, transactive memory and expert-evaluation bottlenecks.
Meaningful direction: Keeps handoff work anchored to mature knowledge-transfer traditions.
knowledge brokeringabsorptive capacityintermediariesexpertise
Deep prior-art review
evidenceliterature reviewsupporting
Maps limiting factors, complements, attention, value capture, idea processing, induced innovation and recent AI-abundance economics.
Meaningful direction: Forces the Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis toward formal conditions or retirement.
economicsscarcitybottleneckscomplements
Deep prior-art review
evidenceliterature reviewsupporting
Grounds the Possibility Portfolio in established exploration/exploitation, portfolio, real-options and idea-management research.
Meaningful direction: Prevents the selection machinery from masquerading as a newly invented management theory.
selectionportfolioreal optionsexploration exploitation
Prior-art review
methodprotocolactive
Preserve ideas cheaply as options while limiting substantial commitments to a small Active Frontier.
Meaningful direction: Use every session to update the portfolio without silently expanding active work.
selectionportfolioattentionfrontier
Experimental operating method · v0.1
methodprotocolsupporting
Capture the topology of discovery, including branches, evidence, decisions, attribution, search boundaries and roads not taken.
Meaningful direction: Preserve abundance without requiring every preserved branch to remain cognitively active.
provenancememory palaceresearch processroads not taken
Operating protocol · v0.3
methodregistersupporting
Separates established antecedents, rediscovery, synthesis, extension and unassessed novelty.
Meaningful direction: Treat prior art as infrastructure and move the research boundary instead of defending local terminology.
prior artnoveltylineageresearch integrity
Living register · v0.3
methodmethodsupporting
Use W3C PROV, CRediT and RO-Crate before adding narrow local metadata for authority, branch state and handoff.
Meaningful direction: Keep the research process inspectable and interoperable.
provenancew3c provcreditro crate
Experimental application profile
methodtoolsupporting
A freely reusable extraction of the site's semantic registry, build validation, static full-text search, knowledge-history and generated-context machinery.
Meaningful direction: Give the discovery architecture away, dogfood it here, and improve the reusable layer from external use.
knowledge architectureastroopen sourcesearchknowledge management
Open-source Astro integration · v0.1
methodhandoff indexactive
The boundary of the current project's authority: questions and artefacts that are ready to move toward missing expertise rather than accumulate more local elaboration.
Meaningful direction: Make missing authority and next required expertise visible as a first-class research state.
epistemic handoffexpertisevalidationcollaboration
Open handoffs