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title: Stoa Vision Roadmap — The Porch
type: reference
tags: :reference:architecture:stoa:
created: 2026-05-24
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Stoa (Στοά) is the body/environment layer of the [[id:d71df46b-9012-433c-86ce-ec21b78eac5f][triad]]:

| Logos  | The mind — recorded discourse (memex + agent) |
| Stoa   | The porch — editor, browser, shell, infrastructure |
| [[id:1d074690-a279-59cb-b91d-e9a22ae104ad][Agora]]  | The society — identity, communication, contracts |

The name comes from the Stoa Poikile (Painted Porch) in ancient Athens,
where Zeno taught Stoic philosophy. The porch was not the philosophy
itself — it was the environment that made discourse possible. Stoa is
the same: not the agent, not the network, but the infrastructure that
hosts both.

The roadmap and threat model are merged into a single document.
Each stage covers: what is added, what threats are eliminated, what it
costs, what it enables, when it is viable, and what it means in practice.
Appendices at the end cover common sense, the bootstrap axiom, and a
summary table of eliminated threats.

| Stage | Delivers | Key cost | Timeline |
|-------+----------+----------+----------|
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc1-4def-9876-543210abcdef][0 — Now]] | Baseline: conventional computing | Patching treadmill, no deductive guarantees | Today |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc2-4def-9876-543210abcdef][1 — Agora]] | Communication integrity, provable DAG | Crypto overhead, key management | Today |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc3-4def-9876-543210abcdef][2 — Logos]] | Verified gate, capability auth | Policy formalization burden | Today (limited) |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc4-4def-9876-543210abcdef][3 — Stoa]] | Lisp machine, Merkle memory, no kernel | Lisp tax, no backward compat, single address space | 2-5yr (soft) / 5-10yr (ASIC) |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc5-4def-9876-543210abcdef][4 — Inference]] | In-process LLM, token interception | ~10x compute/RAM/storage | Server now; consumer 3-5yr |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc6-4def-9876-543210abcdef][5 — Weights]] | Plist-native weights, weight-level provenance | ~100x GPU / ~2-5x ASIC | GPU hybrid now; ASIC 5-10yr |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc7-4def-9876-543210abcdef][6 — Training]] | Verified fine-tuning, neural world model | ~100x fine-tuning only | 3-5yr fine-tuning |
| [[id:4a1f23b0-abc8-4def-9876-543210abcdef][7 — Remaining]] | Physical threats, oracles, speculation, bootstrap axiom | Mitigations are non-computational | Forever |

→ [[id:4a1f23b0-abc1-4def-9876-543210abcdef][Stage 0 — Now]]

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:CREATED:  [2026-05-24 Sun]
:ID:       3f24ad65-0845-4e75-a3d7-dc4de734a6ac
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