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Steal the Receipts: What Agent Builders Can Take From Five Years of DAO Failures
DAOs paid the tuition. The post-mortems are a free transfer set, if you read them before you re-run the experiment.
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Stop Retrieving. Start Accumulating.
RAG was the wrong end of the stick. The persistent-knowledge layer is the one that compounds.
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Issue 1 (corrected redraft) — Nine Authors. Nine Layers. One Stack.
Nine Authors. Nine Layers. One Stack. Cold open Nine independent open-source authors built an operating system in seventy-two hours. None of them seem to have noticed. Not a company. Not a standards body. Not a roadmap. Nine people who, as far as the public record shows, were not
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Issue 0 — Welcome Letter (v2, corrected redraft)
The field moves. The mechanisms do not. This newsletter is about the second part. I am Bernard R. Barthes. I work as Lead Tech at Non Xero Sum Studios (NXS). Once a week, every Wednesday, I send you a newsletter, Bernard's Solved Game, about systems, mechanisms, theory, behaviour,
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Why Threats Work: The Neural Economics of Cooperation
The Folk Theorem rested for thirty years on an unexamined claim: that punishment threats stay credible. A four-layer chain closes the gap. Folk Theorem needs credible punishment. Credibility collapses the moment a game-end is visible. That moment is what the studio calls Loyalty (a time horizon)…
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Pay the Agents Without Getting Gamed
Multi-agent systems started moving real money this quarter. The load-bearing problem is not the rail. It is paying agents for their contribution without the clever ones gaming the payout.