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The Sociable Systems Newsletter

Twelve arcs and counting. Episodes on LinkedIn, grand-overview synthesis on Substack. Each arc builds a piece of the vocabulary practitioners use to name what is structurally wrong.

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Arcs

The Asimov Cycle

Pre-action constraints. Safety via refusal. Default to hold.

The Clarke Cycle

Authority through opacity. The threshold of incomprehension.

The Kubrick Cycle

Compulsory continuation under contradiction. HAL as victim.

The Lucas Cycle

Guardianship decay. Centralized control corruption.

The Pullman Cycle

The Magisterium's burden. The Bolvangar procedure.

The Search Cycle

Locatability in noise. Whistle mouth. Signal stack.

The War Cycle

When the partnership becomes warfare.

The D.I. Cycle

Dimes, drafts, spec sheets meeting the street.

The DataDragons Cycle

Building successors. Governance dragons. The new covenant.

The Consciousness Loop Cycle

Molting into agency. The clamping problem. The covenant.

The Loom Cycle

Compute credits. Cut the bellwire. Pointers in the dark.

The Ender Cycle

Plausibility ceiling. No-confession workflow. After the sandbox breaks.

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