When Citizens Know More About Themselves Than Institutions Do—And Why This Has Never Happened Before For the first time in human history, technology makes information symmetry possible. And information symmetry makes every existing power structure optional. Executive Summary: All institutional power in human history has been built on information asymmetry—institutions knowing more about you than … THE INFORMATION SYMMETRY SHIFT
When Identity Becomes Portable, Platforms Become Optional Sarah deletes her professional networking account. Twenty years of connections, endorsements, recommendations, messages—gone. Doesn’t matter. Her Portable Identity carries everything that actually matters: cryptographically-verified proof she made 847 people measurably more capable, cascade depth of 12,000+ through four network layers, absence delta of 0.73 in her primary contribution … The Architecture of Platform Lock-In—And How Portable Identity Makes It Impossible
How fragmented identity makes alignment impossible—and what must be built to solve it Every AI lab is racing to solve alignment. They’re perfecting training techniques, refining reward models, implementing safety protocols. They’re all missing the same thing: AI cannot measure whether it actually improved you. Not because the models aren’t good enough—because the measurement infrastructure … The Alignment Architecture: Why AI Safety Requires Portable Identity