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Research, essays, and publications on accountable change.
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Continuity
- Continuity: What the Future Inherits
- Continuity as a System
- The Continuity Model v0.1
- Continuity Protocol v0.1
- Continuity Receipt Specification v0.1
- Continuity State Schema v0.1
Diagnostic companion: A Taxonomy of Continuity Failure
Delegated authority
Building useful systems
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29 works
Technical model · Continuity · Systems
A Taxonomy of Continuity Failure
Where succession breaks.
Systems argument · Continuity · Systems
Continuity as a System
A systems argument for legitimate succession through change.
Protocol · Continuity · Systems
Continuity Protocol v0.1
Observe, resolve, propose, act, prove, accept, and link.
Specification · Continuity · Evidence
Continuity Receipt Specification v0.1
A proof object for legitimate succession.
Specification · Continuity · Evidence
Continuity State Schema v0.1
What governs now, and why.
Technical model · Continuity · Systems
The Continuity Model v0.1
A structured model for succession.
Research paper · AI · Evidence
The Internet Is Already Built from Places Where Agency Can Disappear
Dark Agency, fragmented observability, and autonomous persistence.
Essay · AI · Agency
The Subconscious Interface
AI as a surface for inspecting patterns without claims of privileged access.
Dissertation · Systems · Human time
The Human Time Dividend
A measurable theory of human return from automation.
Series essay · Authority · AI
Capability Is Not Permission
Technical reach does not establish legitimate authority to act.
Research paper · Continuity · Authority · Evidence
Continuity Theory: Legitimate Inheritance Across Transformation
A claim-relative framework for what a successor is warranted in inheriting across change.
Essay · Continuity
Continuity: Justified Succession
The original essay on what makes something entitled to remain itself through change.
Essay · Continuity · Authority
Continuity: What the Future Inherits
What survives change: responsibility, authority, commitments, and the grounds for inheriting them.
Series essay · Authority · AI
Escalation Is an Output
Route unresolved decisions to actual authority.
Research series · Authority · AI
Governed Agent Systems
A research series on capability, authority, escalation, receipts, and revocation.
Series essay · Authority · AI
Governed Agent Systems: Introduction
Why consequential agent systems need governance of authority and consequence.
Research paper · Authority · Evidence · Continuity
Governed Computation: The Theory and Practice of Legitimate State Transition
A working theory connecting authority, bounded action, observed effect, and evidence for consequential state changes.
Publication collection · Systems
Operating Systems
A governed publication estate for systems and their operators.
Method · Systems · Authority
Operator Execution Metaframework v0.1
See, warrant, move, observe, continue.
Position paper · AI · Regulation · Authority
Regulatory Computation
Persistent internal condition modulates cognition, memory, and scheduling through bounded signals, without expanding authority.
Series essay · Authority · AI
Revocation Is a Runtime Event
Authority changes while systems are running.
Essay · Continuity · Evidence
Show Me How You Changed
A record of what changed, why, and what happened differently afterward.
PDF · Agency
Something Worth Choosing
Revised reader draft, September 2026.
Essay · AI · Continuity
Stratified Plasticity
High behavioural plasticity; low constitutional drift.
Case study · Authority · AI
The AI Agents Didn’t Survive. Their Institutions Did.
What survives an agent when its run ends?
Series essay · Authority · AI
The Authority Envelope
A bounded delegation of scope, evidence, and revocation conditions.
Series essay · Authority · Evidence · AI
The Receipt
Preserve what changed, under which delegation, and with what evidence.
Essay · Systems
The Smallest Complete System
The smallest intervention that carries the whole promise.
Essay · Systems
The Software You Don’t Need
Is the difference important enough to own?