Orientation
What is the programme trying to make possible, and why does it exist?
Explore the knowledge space
One corpus. Several resolutions.
The site contains more information than any reader should carry at once. Start with the meaningful directions, then increase resolution only when you need the supporting objects, evidence or research machinery.
Abstraction
Zoom without losing the underlying information.
Abstraction is a view over the corpus, not deletion. The same research object can remain fully preserved while the default interface shows only what is directionally useful.
Meaningful directions
Which few questions are receiving scarce attention now, and what next action could change our mind?
Full research memory
Papers, drafts, notes, literature reviews, protocols, provenance, parked options and roads not taken remain discoverable underneath.
Active directions
The current commitment frontier.
These are not necessarily the most exciting ideas in the corpus. They are the directions currently judged most useful to test, formalize or realize.
Active
Cognitive tools for expanding the effective adjacent possible
Develop the meta aim as a lineage-grounded synthesis connecting search, recognition, validation and realization to expansion of reachable possibilities.
Next: Turn the meta aim into discriminating questions and usable selection criteria.
Active
Distributed discovery provenance
Represent problem framing, generation, recognition, validation, integration and realization without collapsing novelty, priority, contribution or authority.
Next: Model one real discovery episode end-to-end using standards-first provenance and identify the genuine gaps.
Active
Economics of epistemic abundance: formalize shifting constraints
Test whether abundance shocks produce useful comparative statics beyond familiar complementarity, bottleneck and attention results.
Next: Construct the smallest formal model that can falsify or sharply narrow the Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis.
Abstraction lens
See the whole corpus without carrying all of it at once.
Start with meaningful directions, then widen the lens when you need context, evidence or machinery. Visibility does not imply commitment.
The goal is not more ideas
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
Research programme
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
Cognitive tools for expanding the effective adjacent possible
Develop the meta aim as a lineage-grounded synthesis connecting search, recognition, validation and realization to expansion of reachable possibilities.
Meaningful direction: Turn the meta aim into discriminating questions and usable selection criteria.
adjacent possibleinnovation searchcognitive toolsfrontier expansion
Active Frontier
Distributed discovery provenance
Represent problem framing, generation, recognition, validation, integration and realization without collapsing novelty, priority, contribution or authority.
Meaningful direction: Model one real discovery episode end-to-end using standards-first provenance and identify the genuine gaps.
human aiprovenancediscoverycreditepistemic authority
Active Frontier
Economics of epistemic abundance: formalize shifting constraints
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
Active Frontier
Epistemic handoff pilot
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
Allocation of scarce expert attention
Study how specialist evaluation can scale when candidate production outgrows expert review capacity without creating new filter monopolies.
Meaningful direction: Map existing mechanisms before proposing a new market or ranking system.
attentionexpertisemarketsselectioninstitutions
Preserved option
What should we make abundant next?
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
Representation as discovery through Nemosyne/Moneta
Use representation changes as an empirical test of whether tools can enlarge what analysts can notice and act upon.
Meaningful direction: Connect the adjacent-possible framing only after representation improvements are empirically demonstrated.
representationnemosynemonetarecognitionvisual analytics
Preserved option
Human-Scale Epistemic Horizon
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
The Authorial Capacity Constraint
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
Epistemic Handoff
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
Ideas Are Options, Not Obligations
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
Literature Review: Discovery Attribution in Human-AI Science ↗
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
Literature Review: Epistemic Handoff, Knowledge Brokering and Uptake ↗
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
Literature Review: Displaced Scarcity and Shifting Bottlenecks ↗
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
Literature Review: Idea Portfolios and Selection ↗
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
Possibility Portfolio & Active Frontier
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
Memory Palace Protocol
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
Intellectual Lineage & Novelty Register
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
Standards-first provenance
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
astro-agalmic
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
Knowledge Handoff Terminus
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
No objects match this view.Widen the abstraction lens or clear a filter. Absence from a filtered view is not rejection.
Memory Palace paths
Enter by a question, not by the repository tree.
The same knowledge can be traversed along different useful paths.
From abundance to action: meta aim → selection frontier → missing expertise → realization.
From a claim to its warrant: working paper → intellectual lineage → contribution/provenance → open handoff.
From an idea to a commitment: preserve as option → map lineage/evidence → compare with the current frontier → activate, hand off, park or retire.
The website should preserve the whole search space while making the meaningful next directions unusually easy to see.
Machine-readable view
The explorer is a projection over structured metadata.
The public semantic index is available as JSON so future graph, search, agent and Nemosyne-style interfaces can reuse the same object model rather than scraping page navigation.