Contributing
Read the scientific standards and the human nature inquiry. Apply their scrutiny to your own reasoning and this project.
Start small and make the reasoning inspectable. A contribution can be a question, critique, design sketch, case study, simulation, or proposed experiment.
Recommended process
- Search existing proposals and critiques before starting a new one.
- State the problem and assumptions plainly.
- Describe the mechanism, not only the desired outcome.
- Include failure modes, capture risks, and affected groups.
- Invite criticism before treating an idea as settled.
- Record significant conclusions in
decisions/.
Quality standard
Do not evaluate a governance proposal only by its intended outcome. Evaluate its incentives, power relationships, information flows, enforcement, reversibility, and likely behaviour under stress.
Distinguish moral commitments, empirical claims, and proposed mechanisms. For empirical claims, provide sources where available, state uncertainty, consider competing explanations, and say what would change your mind. Label unsupported claims as hypotheses.
The seed documents are drafts. A merge records an editorial decision; it does not establish scientific truth or universal moral agreement. Substantial changes should include visible objections and a decision record. The detailed review and maintainer-selection process remains open for design.