Curated map of academic research, industry voices, top products, and individual essays and podcasts that surround the NOUS OS research line. Each entry has the same four lines — what it is, the core claim, where we share, where we differ and what we add — plus a status flag for our depth of engagement.
Each bucket is an angle the research line connects to. Move sub-line forward when evidence accumulates, not when arguments accumulate.
Pre-LLM thinkers who already articulated the augmentation vs replacement question. Their ground is firm; our addition is the LLM-era boundary taxonomy and the capability-without-AI instrument.
Empirical and theoretical work showing offloading cognition onto tools changes what's encoded internally. NOUS OS sits in the literature gap that asks the inverse: under what conditions does offloading make people stronger?
Same audience, same era, but mostly descriptive taxonomies and policy frameworks. We sit downstream as an instrumented loop with measured outcomes.
Labs publishing on alignment, scalable oversight, and model-side boundary design. Their evidence is on AI capability; ours is on human capability when AI is present.
Commercial systems instantiating pieces of our protocol — sometimes one phase, sometimes a sibling philosophy. Useful benchmarks and design references; we are product-agnostic by design.
Essays, podcasts, and contemporary writing that move faster than papers. The L1 capture cron will pull selectively from these.
Empirical, instrumented, public protocols that measure whether a human becomes more capable in AI's absence after AI-assisted work.
Most cognitive-offloading work measures the negative case. Most AI-literacy work writes taxonomies. Most product studies measure usage and satisfaction. Most industry research measures the AI. Most individual essays speculate. The protocol-with-measured-capability-delta position is largely empty. That is where this research line lives.
An atlas is not a reading list. It is the cumulative record of what we have engaged with, how engaged we are, and where we differ.
note-written and a link to the inbound markdown.