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Agalmic Research: Keeping Ideas Cheap and Commitments Scarce
An open research programme on machine-assisted discovery, provenance, epistemic abundance, and the institutional bottlenecks that determine which possibilities become real.
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The programme organizes research around a distinction between abundant candidate ideas and scarce commitment. Its public workflow includes a Possibility Portfolio for preserving branches and an Active Frontier capped at three substantial bets, each paired with a discriminating next action. The site also records an explicit provenance vocabulary—W3C PROV, RO-Crate, and CRediT—and links to Nemosyne as a testbed. Working Paper 001 is labeled version 0.4, while the Epistemic Handoff is labeled draft v0.3, indicating that at least some materials remain under development.
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