From 53a156b8ddcdaf45210c6af6437feb73883af495 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Bresser <82394590+lksbrssr@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 06:05:58 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add real example links to interventions and inflection points Toolkit examples: IPFS (Infrastructure), FIL-PropGF (Funding). Inflection interventions: Prime Intellect (Agents run on open rails), BitRobot (robotics data network), Simocracy + Broad Listening as Translation (binding decision at scale), Hypercerts (capital that pays on verified outcomes), AI4PG convenings (programmable government in production). --- src/lib/field-velocity.ts | 9 ++++++++- src/lib/inflection-points.ts | 10 +++++++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lib/field-velocity.ts b/src/lib/field-velocity.ts index c3e6df32..eb4ca19a 100644 --- a/src/lib/field-velocity.ts +++ b/src/lib/field-velocity.ts @@ -98,7 +98,13 @@ export const TOOLKIT_V2: ToolkitEntry[] = [ title: 'Funding', subtitle: 'grants, prizes & fellowships', oneLiner: 'Early money and prizes where small amounts unlock outsized effort.', - examples: [], + examples: [ + { + label: 'FIL-PropGF', + href: 'https://www.filecoin.io/blog/introducing-fil-propgf-a-new-era-in-community-led-public-goods-funding-for-the-filecoin-ecosystem', + blurb: 'Community-led public goods funding for the Filecoin ecosystem.', + }, + ], description: 'Many important ideas are too early for venture capital and too applied for traditional academic funding. Some need small grants to test whether a primitive works. Others need prizes, RFPs, fellowships, or retroactive funding to pull effort into an underbuilt area. A well-designed prize does more than pay out: it defines what counts as "first" in a field and sets the ambition bar for everyone watching. Where breakthrough variance is the goal, we prefer funding people over projects, with longer horizons and tolerance for early failure. Some of the highest-return grants buy entry rather than output: fellowships, residencies with equipment access, and support for the educators who give newcomers their first hands-on contact with a field. PL R&D deploys and helps coordinate early funding where a field-level bottleneck is clear and where small early funding can unlock much larger downstream effort.', }, @@ -120,6 +126,7 @@ export const TOOLKIT_V2: ToolkitEntry[] = [ oneLiner: 'Open protocols and cheap tools that collapse the cost of trying things.', examples: [ { label: 'atproto', href: 'https://atproto.com/', blurb: 'The open protocol behind Bluesky.' }, + { label: 'IPFS', href: 'https://ipfs.tech/', blurb: 'The content-addressed storage protocol.' }, ], description: 'Sometimes the missing piece is open protocols, public-good infrastructure, or neutral rails that no single company has sufficient incentive to build alone. When a missing primitive or shared infrastructure layer is blocking a field, PL R&D may help build it directly, support the teams building it, or coordinate an ecosystem capable of maintaining it over time. Two kinds of rails get special attention. Tool-cost infrastructure: open reference designs, shared facilities, and instrument cost-down programs that collapse the price of trying things, especially in hardware fields where a single experiment can cost a career. And attribution infrastructure: content-addressed, timestamped records of who built what, and when, so that priority and credit work for protocols, designs, datasets, and negative results the way they already work for papers.', diff --git a/src/lib/inflection-points.ts b/src/lib/inflection-points.ts index b1d62ba3..87718b1b 100644 --- a/src/lib/inflection-points.ts +++ b/src/lib/inflection-points.ts @@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ interventions: [ { role: 'infrastructure', label: 'Filecoin + the open-compute portfolio', href: 'https://filecoin.io/' }, { role: 'capital', label: 'Fluence, Spheron, Expanso, Fleek', href: 'https://fluence.network/' }, + { role: 'capital', label: 'Prime Intellect', href: 'https://primeintellect.ai/' }, { role: 'legibility', label: 'Latest Digital Human Rights insights', href: '/insights/?area=digital-human-rights' }, ], }, @@ -328,6 +329,7 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ interventions: [ { role: 'permission', label: 'DPI standards & procurement playbooks' }, { role: 'connection', label: 'Sovereign–builder convenings (Funding the Commons)', href: 'https://fundingthecommons.io/' }, + { role: 'connection', label: 'AI4PG', href: 'https://www.ai4pg.com/' }, { role: 'legibility', label: 'Latest Economies & Governance insights', href: '/insights/?area=economies-governance' }, ], }, @@ -344,9 +346,10 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ activities: 'Supporting mechanism teams and convening government teams with tool teams.', outputs: 'Simocracy and broad-listening tools, and the government–tool convenings around them.', }, - roles: ['connection', 'capital'], + roles: ['connection', 'translation'], interventions: [ - { role: 'capital', label: 'Simocracy & broad-listening tools' }, + { role: 'translation', label: 'Simocracy', href: 'https://www.simocracy.org/' }, + { role: 'translation', label: 'Broad Listening', href: 'https://broadlistening.org/' }, { role: 'connection', label: 'Government–tool convenings' }, { role: 'legibility', label: 'Latest Economies & Governance insights', href: '/insights/?area=economies-governance' }, ], @@ -395,6 +398,7 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ roles: ['legibility', 'connection', 'capital'], interventions: [ { role: 'capital', label: 'GainForest, Glow, WeatherXM (MRV teams)', href: 'https://gainforest.earth/' }, + { role: 'capital', label: 'Hypercerts', href: 'https://hypercerts.org/' }, { role: 'connection', label: 'Verification benchmark & standards convenings' }, { role: 'legibility', label: 'Latest Economies & Governance insights', href: '/insights/?area=economies-governance' }, ], @@ -544,7 +548,7 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ roles: ['infrastructure', 'capital'], interventions: [ { role: 'infrastructure', label: 'Shared robotics-data network primitives' }, - { role: 'capital', label: 'Funding for robotics-data teams' }, + { role: 'capital', label: 'BitRobot', href: 'https://bitrobot.ai/' }, { role: 'legibility', label: 'Latest AI & Robotics insights', href: '/insights/?area=ai-robotics' }, ], }, From 410f2e2347362986c18667d8e900973f22761dae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Bresser <82394590+lksbrssr@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 06:16:38 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] More inflection examples: Bluesky (comms funding), AI4PG convening, vTaiwan + Team Mirai live signal --- src/lib/inflection-points.ts | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/lib/inflection-points.ts b/src/lib/inflection-points.ts index 87718b1b..6be0972d 100644 --- a/src/lib/inflection-points.ts +++ b/src/lib/inflection-points.ts @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ interventions: [ { role: 'infrastructure', label: 'libp2p / IPFS networking stack', href: 'https://libp2p.io/' }, { role: 'capital', label: 'Fluence, Huddle01 (funded comms teams)', href: 'https://fluence.network/' }, + { role: 'capital', label: 'Bluesky', href: 'https://bsky.app/' }, { role: 'legibility', label: 'Latest Digital Human Rights insights', href: '/insights/?area=digital-human-rights' }, ], liveEvidence: [ @@ -359,6 +360,16 @@ export const INFLECTION_POINTS: InflectionPoint[] = [ href: '/areas/economies-governance/impact/live-dashboard/', note: 'Live activity from a PL-supported mechanism. This is contribution evidence (Q3) from a simulation, not the binding-decision-in-government threshold (Q2).', }, + { + label: 'vTaiwan: crowdsourced lawmaking in Taiwan', + href: 'https://info.vtaiwan.tw/', + note: 'Field evidence (Q2): a real government deliberation process run on computational tools. Not PL contribution.', + }, + { + label: 'Team Mirai: AI broad-listening in Japanese politics', + href: 'https://team-mir.ai/', + note: 'Field evidence (Q2): an elected movement running AI-assisted broad listening at scale. Not PL contribution.', + }, ], }, {