Where to Start
Entry PointA simple entry point into Alignment Theory: the seed, the core definitions, the four modes of support, and the five questions that make the framework usable.
Open pageAlignment Theory
A cross-domain framework for understanding how systems stay strong, become fragile, or mistake borrowed order for real strength.
The archive now centers the revised model built around load-bearing functions, participatory capacity, support relations, co-regulation, scaffolding, distributed competence, and substitution.
Capacity decays when function is preserved without participation.
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TeachIn Plain Language
Entry PointStories, everyday examples, and simple translations of the framework for readers who want to feel the structure before learning the technical terms.
Open pageRevised Framework Center
CoreThe updated conceptual center of Alignment Theory, organized around load-bearing functions, participatory capacity, and the difference between healthy support and substitution.
Open pageStress Tests
TestCross-domain papers testing whether the framework generalizes across biology, education, economics, recovery, and other adaptive systems.
Open pageShared Core Structure
MetaA series-level page showing the recurring diagnostic structure that reappears across the stress tests and where that structure weakens.
Open pageApplied Branches
ApplyAI Civilization and Human Formation
BranchThe AI branch reframed around whether advanced systems preserve or erode human participatory capacity in load-bearing cognitive and moral functions.
Open branchBiology and Adaptive Systems
BranchA research branch examining how self-maintaining systems strengthen or weaken depending on how their load-bearing functions are carried.
Open branchArchive
PreserveThe archive preserves current papers, shorter essays, and earlier formulations without making older framings the first stop for new readers.