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title: Appendix — At a Glance
book: Purposive Accelerationism
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# Appendix — At a Glance

Each entry names what the reply asks and where the argument for it is made.

| Name | What it asks | Where it is argued |
| :---- | :---- | :---- |
| The reference value |  |  |
| Non-domination | No party may wield uncheckable power over the rest | The Recipe |
| The eight criteria |  |  |
| Latency | A check works as fast as what it holds, while setting, judging and changing rules stays with people | The Test |
| Checkability | Anyone can establish a breach without trusting the accused, and no single actor can move the standard | The Test |
| All masters | The rules bind every power that answers to nobody, in a ministry, a boardroom or a founder’s hands, including the reply’s own agents | The Test |
| Voice | People living under a rule can answer back and decide together, with the means to use that right | The Test |
| A realistic chooser | Nothing depends on the faculty the harm wears down, and no irreversible step comes without recourse | The Test |
| Answerability | No one sets the objective of a system that governs you without your having standing to contest it | The Test |
| Capacity | The system must not degrade the abilities on which that standing depends | The Test |
| Minimality and authorability | The smallest universal set, which people who disagree about the good life can still write together | The Test |
| The five rights |  |  |
| To constitute oneself | Hold your own keys, with an identity no authority can revoke | A Cognitive Commons |
| To connect | Get online and communicate from the most basic device without anyone’s permission | A Cognitive Commons |
| To create | Make things with the tools of one’s day without asking leave of whoever owns them | A Cognitive Commons |
| To transact | Hold, issue and trade peer to peer, with a settlement of last resort nobody can freeze | A Cognitive Commons |
| To collectivise | Form and join polities, pool resources under rules the group sets, and enter or leave on its own terms | A Cognitive Commons |
| The seven tests |  |  |
| Declared purposes | A system states what it is trying to achieve, and every change leaves a trace anybody can find | Modes of Voice |
| Arm’s length auditing | Whoever checks gains nothing from the verdict, and the owner cannot bury the result | Modes of Voice |
| Proof-carrying outputs | Results come with steps anyone can check without trusting the machine that made them | Modes of Voice |
| The census | Measure what people can do with these systems against what they manage without them | Modes of Voice |
| Open competition | Real alternatives with different goals, open to fork and lawful to run | Modes of Voice |
| Portable inference and memory | Run the final step on hardware you control, and keep and move your own memory | Modes of Voice |
| Informed signatures | A named, answerable person signs each community decision and can show they understood it | Modes of Voice |
| The provision |  |  |
| Mind the Gap | When a result outruns its reader, say so and offer three routes: learn, interrogate or delegate | Modes of Voice |
| The rulebook |  |  |
| Measure, publish, permit, refuse | Four things left to law: a census of capacity, unedited findings, lawful open weights and no artificial persons | Modes of Voice |
| The red line | No entity acts without a natural person who answers for it, and no artificial agent becomes a legal person | Modes of Voice |