Draftv0.1.0-alpha · revised 2026-08-01
Governing Premises
The four premises of scientific governance.
Draft: Written but unreviewed. Content may change substantially.
- Assumptions may be wrong.
- Evidence may change.
- Policies must be revisable.
- Failure must be publishable.
An institution that cannot satisfy all four will eventually optimise for the appearance of success, because that is the only remaining path when admitting error is unavailable.
Chapter metadata
- Status
- Draft
- Version
- 0.1.0-alpha
- Created
- 2026-08-01
- Last revised
- 2026-08-01
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- Authors
- ISILP
- Governing proposals
- IIP-0006
- Source
spec/500-governance/premises.mdx
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ISILP. Governing Premises. The Intelligentism Specification, version 0.1.0-alpha (revised 2026-08-01). https://intelligentism.isilp.org/spec/governance/premises