Bicorder reading: Elohim Protocol by Elohim Protocol team | Source: Protocol Bicorder v1.2.6
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"name": "Protocol Bicorder",
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"schema": "bicorder.schema.json",
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"version": "1.2.6",
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"description": "A diagnostic tool for the study of protocols",
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"author": "Nathan Schneider",
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"date_modified": "2026-02-21",
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"metadata": {
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"protocol": "Elohim Protocol",
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"description": "Three Inseparable Dimensions: Every piece of content in the protocol carries knowledge, value, and governance — coupled at the architectural level before anything is created or distributed. No value-blind content. No governance-free content. This is what makes the stool stand.",
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"analyst": "Elohim Protocol team",
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"standpoint": "Protocol Steward Author",
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"timestamp": "2026-05-06T19:04:25.866Z",
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"shortform": false
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"diagnostic": [
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"set_name": "Design",
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"set_description": "How the protocol is created and remembered",
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"gradients": [
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{
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"term_left": "explicit",
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"term_left_description": "Design is stated explicitly somewhere that is accessible to participants",
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"term_right": "implicit",
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"term_right_description": "Design is not stated explicitly and is learned by use",
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"value": 2,
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"notes": "Schema-first IoC — JSON schemas, DNA-notarized enums, manifests, CLAUDE.md, dev plans. Everything load-bearing is stated. ",
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"shortform": false
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},
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{
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"term_left": "precise",
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"term_left_description": "Specified with a high level of precision that eliminates ambiguity in implementation",
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"term_right": "interpretive",
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"term_right_description": "Ambiguous design, allowing participants a wide range of interpretation",
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"value": 3,
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"notes": "View Schema Contract + DNA constants are precise; discernment ceiling is interpretive on top",
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"shortform": true
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},
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{
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"term_left": "institutional",
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"term_left_description": "Design occurs through processes controlled by powerful institutions",
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"term_right": "vernacular",
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"term_right_description": "Design occurs through evolving community interactions",
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"value": 8,
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"notes": "No institutional sponsor; small-team + community evolution; aims to spread peer-to-peer.",
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"shortform": true
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},
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"term_left": "documenting",
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"term_left_description": "Intended to document or validate activity that is occurring",
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"term_right": "enabling",
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"term_right_description": "Intended to enable activity that might not happen otherwise",
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"value": 9,
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"notes": "Designed to enable flourishing that current platforms can't do. Not to formalize existing practice. ",
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"shortform": false
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},
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{
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"term_left": "static",
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"term_left_description": "Designed to be as fixed and unchanging as possible",
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"term_right": "malleable",
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"term_right_description": "Designed to be changed by participants according to evolving needs",
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"value": 7,
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"notes": "Manifest-driven routes, extensible signal_kind vocabulary, archetype-tunable cadences — slower at the DNA-notarized substrate.",
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"shortform": true
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},
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{
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"term_left": "technical",
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"term_left_description": "Primarily concerned with interactions among technologies",
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"term_right": "social",
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"term_right_description": "Primarily concerned with interactions among people or groups",
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"value": 7,
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"notes": "Knowledge/value/governance coupling is fundamentally social; rich technical substrate exists to serve it.",
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"shortform": false
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},
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{
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"term_left": "universal",
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"term_left_description": "Meant for global adoption across different communities",
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"term_right": "particular",
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"term_right_description": "Tailored for a specific community",
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"value": 4,
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"notes": "Universal aspiration (Apple/grandma standard, subsumes FANG) but composed of particular communities (households, hubs). ",
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"shortform": false
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},
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{
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"term_left": "durable",
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"term_left_description": "Designed to be persistently available",
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"term_right": "ephemeral",
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"term_right_description": "Designed to vanish when no longer needed",
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"value": 2,
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"notes": "HT-notarized substrate is durable by design; only specialist elohim subagents are ephemeral.",
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"shortform": false
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}
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]
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},
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"set_name": "Entanglement",
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"set_description": "How the protocol relates with participant agents",
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"gradients": [
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{
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"term_left": "macro",
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"term_left_description": "Operates at large scales involving many participants or broad scope",
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"term_right": "micro",
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"term_right_description": "Operates at small scales with few participants or narrow scope",
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"value": 5,
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"notes": "Both, deliberately — household (micro) federated up to Tier-3 substrate (macro). The peer-federation paradigm is the architecture. ",
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"shortform": false
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},
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{
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"term_left": "sovereign",
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"term_left_description": "A distinctive operating logic, not subject to any other entity",
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"term_right": "subsidiary",
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"term_right_description": "An operating logic under the control of a particular entity",
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"value": 4,
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"notes": "Structurally sovereign (no platform owner), philosophically rejects sovereignty/ownership in favor of stewardship.",
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"shortform": true
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},
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{
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"term_left": "self-enforcing",
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"term_left_description": "Rules automatically enforced through its own mechanisms",
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"term_right": "enforced",
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"term_right_description": "Rules require external enforcement by authorities or institutions",
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"value": 3,
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"notes": "DHT validators + REA commitments + deterministic substrate floor; social/Elohim enforcement only above the floor.",
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"shortform": true
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},
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{
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"term_left": "abstract",
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"term_left_description": "Participants learn the protocol by studying it intellectually",
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"term_right": "embodied",
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"term_right_description": "Participants learn the protocol by physically practicing it",
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"value": 6,
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"notes": "Embodied through stewardship practice, presence, household clusters. Schemas require intellectual engagement, so not far right.",
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"shortform": false
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"term_left": "obligatory",
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"term_left_description": "Compulsory participation for a certain class of agents",
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"term_right": "voluntary",
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"term_right_description": "Participation is optional and not coerced",
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"value": 8,
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"notes": "Voluntary participation, but community-recoverability and elohim counsel are non-opt-out structural protections.",
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"shortform": true
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"term_left": "flocking",
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"term_left_description": "Coordination occurs through centralized direction or direct mimicry",
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"term_right": "swarming",
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"term_right_description": "Coordination occurs through distributed interactions without central direction",
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"value": 9,
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"notes": "Tier-3 federated nodes, no central direction; doorway is projection/gateway of the swarm not controller.",
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"shortform": true
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"term_left": "defensible",
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"term_left_description": "Strong boundaries and protections against external influence",
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"term_right": "exposed",
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"term_right_description": "Weak boundaries and vulnerable to external influence",
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"value": 3,
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"notes": "Strong cryptographic + DNA-validated boundaries; capture-resistance is explicit (\"redeploy the substrate\"). ",
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"shortform": false
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"term_left": "monopolistic",
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"term_left_description": "Excludes the use of other protocols with similar purposes",
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"term_right": "pluralistic",
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"term_right_description": "Interoperates with other protocols and does not exclude their use",
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"value": 8,
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"notes": "Designed to interoperate at the doorway projection layer (AT Proto, ActivityPub); peer-native primitives stay clean underneath. ",
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"shortform": false
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"set_name": "Experience",
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"set_description": "How the protocol is perceived in the context of its implementation",
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"gradients": [
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"term_left": "sufficient",
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"term_left_description": "Adequately meets the needs and goals of participants",
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"term_right": "limited",
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"term_right_description": "Does not, on its own, adequately meet the needs and goals of participants",
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"value": 4,
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"notes": "Designed to be sufficient (full stack: knowledge + value + governance), structurally force human friction at higher scales of collective \"needs and goals\". ",
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"shortform": false
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"term_left": "crystallized",
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"term_left_description": "Content or meaning are settled and widely agreed upon",
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"term_right": "contested",
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"term_right_description": "Content or meaning are disputed or under debate",
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"value": 5,
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"notes": "Substrate constants are crystallized; manifest layer (signal kinds, content formats) \"the domain of meaning\" is intentionally contestable",
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"shortform": false
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"term_left": "trust-evading",
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"term_left_description": "Minimizes the need for trust among participants",
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"term_right": "trust-inducing",
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"term_right_description": "Relies on or cultivates trust among participants",
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"value": 7,
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"notes": "Trust-inducing by design; peer recovery, vouching, \"trust as efficiency signal\" over a trust-evading cryptographic substrate. ",
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"shortform": false
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"term_left": "predictable",
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"term_left_description": "Produces expected and consistent outcomes",
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"term_right": "emergent",
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"term_right_description": "Produces unexpected or novel outcomes",
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"value": 6,
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"notes": "Deterministic floor; reach, standing, recognition derive emergently from graph topology and signals. ",
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"shortform": true
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"term_left": "exclusion",
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"term_left_description": "Creates barriers or excludes certain participants",
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"term_right": "inclusion",
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"term_right_description": "Reduces barriers and includes diverse participants",
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"value": 8,
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"notes": "A standard for Grandma, ungrudging service, no absolute lockout. Peer-vouching friction keeps it from a 10.",
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"shortform": true
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"term_left": "restraining",
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"term_left_description": "Fosters experiences of absurd complexity, alienation, and powerlessness",
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"term_right": "liberating",
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"term_right_description": "Enables participants to carry out desired activities with less work or thought",
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"value": 7,
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"notes": "Aimed at reaching the \"trillion-dollar convenience\" for the median human participant; current dev-stage complexity tempers the score.",
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"shortform": false
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"term_left": "dead",
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"term_left_description": "Not actively utilized by relevant participants",
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"term_right": "alive",
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"term_right_description": "Actively utilized by relevant participants",
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"value": 3,
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"notes": "alive internally within the project (roadmaps for git, ci/cd, \"tokens\"), still reaching for MVP activation, and protocols composing this one (CID:DAG-CBOR:HTTP:IFPS) are active in the broader dev community. N/A is also a defensible here.",
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"term_left": "hardness",
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"term_left_description": "The protocol tends toward properties characterized by hardness",
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"term_right": "softness",
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"term_right_description": "The protocol tends toward properties characterized by softness",
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"instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above and determine a mean. Round it to the nearest integer. That is the 'value' here.",
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"automated": true,
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"value": 6,
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"term_left": "polarized",
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"term_left_description": "The analyst tended toward more extreme high or low readings",
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"term_right": "centrist",
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"term_right_description": "The analyst tended toward readings at the middle of the gradients",
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"instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above. Assess their degree of polarization. For instance, if all the values are either 1 or 9, the output would be 1, and if all of them are 5, the output would be 9.",
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"automated": true,
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"value": 5,
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"term_left": "formal",
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"term_left_description": "Exhibits bureaucratic characteristics with centralized control and predictable enforcement",
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"term_right": "informal",
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"term_right_description": "Exhibits relational characteristics with distributed coordination embedded in culture",
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"instructions": "Based on the diagnostic readings, calculate the protocol's position using Linear Discriminant Analysis. The LDA score is scaled to the 1-9 range, where 1 represents strongly formal protocols and 9 represents strongly informal protocols. A score of 5 indicates a protocol near the boundary exhibiting characteristics of both families.",
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"automated": true,
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"value": 1,
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"notes": null
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"term_left": "not useful",
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"term_left_description": "The bicorder was not useful or relevant for analyzing this protocol",
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"term_right": "very useful",
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"term_right_description": "The bicorder was very useful and relevant for analyzing this protocol",
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"instructions": "Evaluate the usefulness of this bicorder as a tool for analyzing this protocol, considering whether the gradient terms seemed revealing or irrelevant.",
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"automated": false,
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"value": 7,
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"notes": ""
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