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  "label": "ReGrowth Rhythms (Sāmatvārtha Sutra), the live book: every chapter, its status and how far along it is",
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        "A raw page goes in",
        "Canon, margins and branches: how this book keeps itself",
        "Capability is not judgement",
        "What was the expensive part?"
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        "The exhibit",
        "Who says what",
        "What the book keeps, and what it composts"
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        "Still saving to floppy",
        "Not technical debt, not path dependence, not lock-in",
        "The old form kept after its reason has gone",
        "One ordinary day, audited"
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        "A world from a few rules",
        "The glider: lasting by being rebuilt",
        "Emergence without a boss",
        "Two Conways, kept apart for now"
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      "name": "Wolfram Ruliad",
      "line": "Every rule run every way, and why some outcomes can only be found by living the steps.",
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        "Every rule, every way",
        "Why some steps have to be lived",
        "An organisation is a rule set being run",
        "The ruliad and Advaita, side by side"
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        "Conway’s law",
        "The org chart is a decision",
        "A mirror, not a mandate",
        "The case that worked, still being looked for"
      ],
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      "no": 7,
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      "line": "What piles up when Conway’s law runs over time: a definition that has to earn its name.",
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      "updated": "2026-09-29",
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        "A definition",
        "Three examples and one non-example",
        "How it could be shown wrong",
        "A graph of debts, not a list of causes"
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      "updated": "2026-09-29",
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        "Point it at the institution",
        "Who decided this? When? Is the reason still alive?",
        "Cut rules, not people",
        "An audit is not a verdict",
        "One case, before and after"
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      "line": "Why the best idea doesn’t always win, and what the best carrier does instead.",
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        "The best carrier",
        "Propaganda that forms people",
        "Desire learned from others",
        "Where the meme analogy breaks"
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      "no": 10,
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      "line": "When a tool stops serving a culture and starts setting its rules, with ṛta, order as a living rhythm, beside it.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
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        "Technopoly",
        "Ṛta: order as a living rhythm",
        "Moloch and Ṛta",
        "Cosmotechnics, the door between"
      ],
      "slug": "theory-of-technopoly",
      "href": "rhythms/theory-of-technopoly.html"
    },
    {
      "no": 11,
      "name": "TMC",
      "line": "Techno-Memetic Commons: where the work of technology and ideas is kept, so it can be shared without being enclosed.",
      "status": "seed",
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      "updated": "2026-09-29",
      "sections": [
        "Techno-Memetic Leverage to Pay Conway Debt",
        "Open is not unenclosable",
        "Private, permissioned, public: set at every node",
        "Kept by obligation, not by freedom alone"
      ],
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      "href": "rhythms/tmc.html"
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      "no": 12,
      "name": "Signal of Goodhart’s Law",
      "line": "What happens when a measure becomes a target and AI can carry the target out.",
      "status": "seed",
      "fidelity": 1,
      "updated": "2026-09-29",
      "sections": [
        "A metric is a policy",
        "Whose chart of accounts?",
        "Measure to learn, not to rank",
        "Every target an expiry date"
      ],
      "slug": "signal-of-goodharts-law",
      "href": "rhythms/signal-of-goodharts-law.html"
    },
    {
      "no": 13,
      "name": "Sutra of Pañca Ṛṇa",
      "line": "Five obligations a price forgets, held as a working hypothesis.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
      "updated": "2026-09-29",
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        "Five obligations",
        "Honour or accumulate",
        "A market is a machine for forgetting who owes whom",
        "Three or five?"
      ],
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      "no": 14,
      "name": "Sutra of the Sāmatvārtha Mandala",
      "line": "The Sāmatvārtha Mandala, the ReGrowth Automaton in English: one balance that repeats at every scale.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
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      "sections": [
        "Balance and prosperity",
        "Household, commons, market, state",
        "Kṣetra · Karm · Kula, in one Kośa",
        "As in the self, so in the cosmos"
      ],
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      "href": "rhythms/sutra-of-the-samatvartha-mandala.html"
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      "no": 15,
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      "line": "Growth as a direction, not only a number: what should grow, shrink and regenerate, for whom and at whose cost.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
      "updated": "2026-09-29",
      "sections": [
        "Right about the fire",
        "Growth is a vector",
        "The substrate is the variable",
        "Restore, regenerate, renew"
      ],
      "slug": "regrowth-not-degrowth",
      "href": "rhythms/regrowth-not-degrowth.html"
    },
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      "no": 16,
      "name": "India Is Not a Download",
      "line": "A country’s own path through the AI era, argued from its own ground rather than copied.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
      "updated": "2026-09-29",
      "sections": [
        "Not a download",
        "Strata of decisions, not peoples",
        "Model · harness · meta-harness · make",
        "Seventy hours"
      ],
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      "href": "rhythms/india-is-not-a-download.html"
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      "no": 17,
      "name": "Laffer Chirality",
      "line": "A new concept in the making: the Laffer curve and chirality, read against the false dichotomies of the AI debate.",
      "status": "seed",
      "fidelity": 1,
      "updated": "2026-09-29",
      "essay": "journal/arguing-about-the-pedal.html",
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        "Same plane, false dichotomies",
        "The curve",
        "The mirror",
        "True at which layer?"
      ],
      "slug": "laffer-chirality",
      "href": "rhythms/laffer-chirality.html"
    },
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      "no": 18,
      "name": "Pareto-Normal",
      "line": "A held place: the name is written; the idea is still the author’s to give.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
      "updated": "2026-09-29",
      "slug": "pareto-normal",
      "href": "rhythms/pareto-normal.html"
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      "no": 19,
      "name": "SuperPositivity",
      "line": "Holding many possibilities open and acting on one, and a different lens on superintelligence.",
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      "fidelity": 1,
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      "sections": [
        "Superposition",
        "Keep the possibilities open, act on one",
        "Supernegativity: collapsing everything at once",
        "A different lens on superintelligence",
        "Your raw page"
      ],
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      "href": "rhythms/superpositivity.html"
    }
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}