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- Split competitive-analysis-2026-05.org → TOC + 9 competitor files in ideas/competitors/. Dropped date from filename. All competitor UUIDs generated, TOC keeps original UUID for backlink continuity. - Deleted passepartout-economics.org archive (replaced by 27-node KB). - Inlined 5 'See also' blocks into natural prose (compliance-index, first-mover-window, revenue-table, orders-of-magnitude-time, native-org-knowledge-base). - Linked 7 orphan compliance pages back to compliance index + finished truncated sentences. - Linked all 14 Agora requirement docs from topic-relevant pages (identity→lisp-machine-security, infrastructure→compute-marketplace, social-space→growth-strategy, exchange→agora-contracts, etc.). - Linked ai-industry-impact from investment-thesis, sufficiency-flip, verification-appliance, effects-growth-flywheel (up from 1 to 10+ pages). - Fixed CREATED timestamps to use git commit dates instead of today. - Made all links absolute from root (no port inheritance). - Removed stale agora/docs/ duplicate content.
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— title: Stoa Vision Roadmap — The Porch type: reference tags: :reference:architecture:stoa: created: 2026-05-24 —
Stoa (Στοά) is the body/environment layer of the triad:
| Logos | The mind — recorded discourse (memex + agent) |
| Stoa | The porch — editor, browser, shell, infrastructure |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 — Now | Baseline: conventional computing | Patching treadmill, no deductive guarantees | Today |
| 1 — Agora | Communication integrity, provable DAG | Crypto overhead, key management | Today |
| 2 — Logos | Verified gate, capability auth | Policy formalization burden | Today (limited) |
| 3 — Stoa | Lisp machine, Merkle memory, no kernel | Lisp tax, no backward compat, single address space | 2-5yr (soft) / 5-10yr (ASIC) |
| 4 — Inference | In-process LLM, token interception | ~10x compute/RAM/storage | Server now; consumer 3-5yr |
| 5 — Weights | Plist-native weights, weight-level provenance | ~100x GPU / ~2-5x ASIC | GPU hybrid now; ASIC 5-10yr |
| 6 — Training | Verified fine-tuning, neural world model | ~100x fine-tuning only | 3-5yr fine-tuning |
| 7 — Remaining | Physical threats, oracles, speculation, bootstrap axiom | Mitigations are non-computational | Forever |