Research Orientation · Publications
The frameworks, applications, and intellectual lineage of Triadigm.
This is one consolidated library rather than a set of separate book pages. Framework books link to the corresponding conceptual page; related and earlier works remain visible as part of the larger research trajectory.
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The newest book, readable here in its entirety and also available in print and ebook.
Accountable Power in the Age of AI
A public manifesto for governing artificial intelligence: develop the capacity to govern as deliberately as we develop the technology. It asks what governance should make possible, what it must protect, and how we will know when it needs to change.
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The current frameworks and the adjacent Noemics proposal, presented as the central conceptual body of work.
A Framework for Sociotechnical Species and Civilizational Futures
A scientific manifesto and conceptual architecture connecting three evolutionary strands, three realms, responsibility-bearing actors, three orders, correctability, and provisional human futures.
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Order, Coexistence, and the Architecture of Ideal Complexity
A responsibility-based vocabulary for distinguishing ecosystemic, systemic, and conditioned order and for diagnosing when architecture is insufficient or excessive.
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Constructing Large Sociotechnical Systems in the Age of AI
A unit-oriented architecture for large sociotechnical systems, developed through the Fleet model and grounded in complete, responsibility-bearing units.
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A Systemic Approach to Enterprise Architecture Using the Purpose Driven Design Framework
A detailed design framework for turning purpose into coherent sociotechnical and digital architecture through nine interlocking constructs.
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How to Model Through Exemplary Domains
A discipline for moving from an unresolved breakdown to an admitted, target-native model through explicit search, abstraction, transfer, and testing.
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The Science of Evolving Understanding
A proposal for orienting the changing organization of science: when fields should emerge, merge, remain subordinate, or end.
Examination
A book-length investigation of Triadic Evolution, conducted as a field report and published here in full.
Professor Yourtle Investigates Whether Triadic Evolution Deserves to Matter
A first-person field investigation of Triadic Evolution: what kind of intellectual object it is, what is distinctive about it, what evidence could support or weaken it, and whether it changes any consequential decision. The outcome is not predetermined.
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Works that apply or extend the sociotechnical orientation into capability, dependence, and AI safety.
What Another Civilization Learned—and What AI Could Let Us Learn Sooner
An observer from a world with one political garden reports on a planet that still has many, and asks what artificial intelligence could let one society learn from another without transplanting it.
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The Inner Workings of Meaning, Purpose, and Action
A vocabulary for examining ordinary human conduct — Meaning, Values, Purpose, Identity, Judgment, Capability, Character, and Responsibility — developed through Meaning, Purpose, Action, and Responsibility without promising control.
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How Our Best Ideas Become Their Opposites
Eight public promises — Peace, Dignity, Freedom, Equality, Rights, Justice, Self-Government, Futurity — followed from their stated language through the arrangements that carry them, asking what someone planning a life would have reason to count on.
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The Rise of the Infra-Self — A Field Report on Capability and Dependence
A practical philosophy of capable participation and wiser dependence, centered on what people and households should generate, receive, share, and entrust.
Architectural Context, Perspectives, and Insights
An architectural treatment of AI safety in sociotechnical context, emphasizing accountable units, purpose, coordination, and human responsibility.
Intellectual lineage
Earlier books in which the unit, Fleet, transformation, prescriptive decision, and three-strand ideas first developed.
Enterprise Architecture in a New Key
An early synthesis of the transformable enterprise, the Fleet model, and the three-strand vocabulary that later developed into Triadic Evolution.
A Concise Guide to Constructing an Artificially Intelligent Enterprise
An early unit-centered enterprise architecture that sought to make the enterprise visible, coherent, and constructible as a whole.
A Short Introduction to Counterintuitive Intelligence
A compact framework for modeling situations, generating alternatives, computing decisions, and guiding adaptive execution.
Reimagine Tomorrow’s Sociotechnical World
The 2024 precursor that first developed the biological, organizational, and extension-based view later revised in the current Triadic Evolution framework.