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Hermes 9b2be10c77 Restructure economics doc into 27 org-roam interlinked nodes
Replace monolithic passepartout-economics.org with directory of
org-roam style nodes, each with :ID: property and cross-references
using [[id:uuid][title]] format.

27 nodes organized by theme:
- Core: index, triad overview, agora, stoa
- Revenue: verification appliance, domain gate packages, evaluation
  harness, skill marketplace, agora usernames, PDS service, compute marketplace
- Strategy: investment thesis, moats, licensing, patents, AI industry impact
- Analysis: lisp economics, sufficiency flip, time estimates, cost structure,
  gate rule encoding, upgrade lifecycle, biology parallels, symbolics comparison
- Big money: verification monopoly, infrastructure lock-in

Old file kept as archive with redirect links to new structure.
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Stoa — The Porch (Environment)

Stoa is the user environment — a single Lisp image where editor, browser, shell, and agent coexist.

Roadmap:

  • v2.0.0: Lish editor + Nyxt browser (Stage 1, Qt/WebKit) + Lish shell
  • v3.0.0+: Cannibalization — replace Qt with Lisp-native layout, reduce WebKit to pixel-painting, eventually pure-Lisp browser and window management
  • v4.0.0: Native inference — llama.cpp FFI in-process, DSL-compiled model architectures, live surgery on cognition
  • v5.0.0: Hardware — tagged RISC-V architecture via TinyTapeout, FPGA prototype, hardware GC via dedicated bus master
  • v6.0.0: True agency — world models, temporal reasoning, goal persistence across restarts

The architectural principle: Stoa is not a collection of clients connecting to a daemon. The Dispatcher gate stack verifies every action regardless of who initiated it. The distinction between "tool" and "self" dissolves.

See also: Verification appliance, Self-driving Lisp Machine