Observed arrival · 2026-09-07
Agalmic Research and the Bottlenecks Behind Abundance
An open research programme examining how provenance, machine-assisted discovery, and institutions determine which possibilities people can actually reach.
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The programme organizes its work around a Possibility Portfolio for preserving worthwhile branches and an Active Frontier limited to three substantial bets by default. Its research materials connect the concept of an effective adjacent possible to search complexity, absorptive capacity, and resources, while the provenance section points to W3C PROV, RO-Crate, and CRediT. Nemosyne appears as a testbed, and the site labels its working paper and epistemic handoff as versioned drafts.
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