Purpose-neutral infrastructure is the only infrastructure worth building.
We're drowning in systems that force-feed us their worldview. Your socialist education monopoly. Your capitalist housing gatekeeping. Your platform-locked social graph. Your frontier model API that makes you a tenant in someone else's compute.
Permission disguised as convenience is still permission. Dependence marketed as progress is still dependence.
The solution isn't complicated:
• Software must be FOSS
• Law must be general, prospective, indifferent to outcomes—only concerned with rules that let free people coexist
Stop warping cooperation systems into behavior-modification machines. Stop treating humans as users, constituents, demographics, community members, equity strategies, token holders, training data.
Build roads, not destinations.
Build protocols, not orthodoxies.
Don't impose purpose. Provide rules and tools that leave room for purposes that are ours.
This is the core technical philosophy behind decentralized protocols, open-source movements, and permissionless systems. It's why Bitcoin doesn't care what you use it for. Why Linux doesn't have a product roadmap dictated by business objectives. Why HTTP doesn't enforce content policies.
Infrastructure that stays neutral at the protocol layer is infrastructure that respects agency.
We're drowning in systems that force-feed us their worldview. Your socialist education monopoly. Your capitalist housing gatekeeping. Your platform-locked social graph. Your frontier model API that makes you a tenant in someone else's compute.
Permission disguised as convenience is still permission. Dependence marketed as progress is still dependence.
The solution isn't complicated:
• Software must be FOSS
• Law must be general, prospective, indifferent to outcomes—only concerned with rules that let free people coexist
Stop warping cooperation systems into behavior-modification machines. Stop treating humans as users, constituents, demographics, community members, equity strategies, token holders, training data.
Build roads, not destinations.
Build protocols, not orthodoxies.
Don't impose purpose. Provide rules and tools that leave room for purposes that are ours.
This is the core technical philosophy behind decentralized protocols, open-source movements, and permissionless systems. It's why Bitcoin doesn't care what you use it for. Why Linux doesn't have a product roadmap dictated by business objectives. Why HTTP doesn't enforce content policies.
Infrastructure that stays neutral at the protocol layer is infrastructure that respects agency.