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  "schema": "qaeda.reading-collections.v1",
  "canonical": "https://qaeda.org/collections",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "publication": "Questioning Accepted Ethics, Dogma & Authority",
  "note": "Curated reading paths are editorial navigation, not evidence rankings or certification tracks. Stable QAEDA-COL identifiers belong to the collection; article evidence status remains owned by the claim/evidence layers.",
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-001",
      "slug": "orientation",
      "title": "Start with the method",
      "short_title": "Orientation",
      "description": "A compact path through QAEDA's method, cognitive-liberty premise, power test, institutional replication test, and counterpower criterion.",
      "goal": "Understand the publication's core questions before diving into specialized research.",
      "level": "Orientation",
      "estimated_minutes": 45,
      "prerequisites": [],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/cognitive-liberty-unowned-mind",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-001",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Begin with the argument that freedom of thought increasingly depends on the architecture around thought."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/against-nanny-ai",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-010",
          "minutes": 8,
          "note": "Separate transparent safeguards from covert paternalistic steering."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/promethean-test",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-014",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Ask whether challengers distribute capability or seek to inherit the throne."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/after-the-throne",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-015",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Apply the replication test after a movement or institution gains power."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/counterpower-without-monopoly",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-016",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Close with exit, pluralism, accountability, and voluntary counterpower."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-002",
      "slug": "cognitive-liberty-core",
      "title": "Cognitive liberty in the AI era",
      "short_title": "Cognitive liberty core",
      "description": "A deeper sequence on mental privacy, query privacy, intent inference, lawful curiosity, privacy-preserving safety, and auditability.",
      "goal": "Build a working model of cognitive liberty that can distinguish inquiry rights from legitimate safety interventions.",
      "level": "Foundation",
      "estimated_minutes": 63,
      "prerequisites": [
        "QAEDA-COL-001 recommended, not required"
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/cognitive-liberty-unowned-mind",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-001",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Define the problem space."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/sanctity-of-the-query",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-002",
          "minutes": 11,
          "note": "Treat lawful inquiry as inquiry rather than a confession of identity or intent."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/algorithmic-judgment-of-intent",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-003",
          "minutes": 11,
          "note": "Examine when relevance systems become consequential user profiling."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/curiosity-is-not-intent",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-004",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Keep dangerous subject matter distinct from concrete harmful assistance."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/safety-without-surveillance",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-005",
          "minutes": 12,
          "note": "Evaluate lower-data architectures for legitimate safety goals."
        },
        {
          "position": 6,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/audit-the-gatekeeper",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-009",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Turn the principles into observable audit questions."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-003",
      "slug": "safety-governance",
      "title": "Safety without a permanent ratchet",
      "short_title": "Safety governance",
      "description": "An adversarial path through preventive safeguards, mission creep, least-restrictive design, youth protection, privacy, and due process.",
      "goal": "Evaluate safety systems without collapsing into either safety absolutism or liberty absolutism.",
      "level": "Deep dive",
      "estimated_minutes": 64,
      "prerequisites": [
        "Familiarity with cognitive liberty is helpful"
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/curiosity-is-not-intent",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-004",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Establish the lawful-inquiry presumption."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/safety-poison-pill-narrowed",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-006",
          "minutes": 12,
          "note": "Start from the strongest adversarial correction to overbroad anti-safety rhetoric."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/expansion-ratchet",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-007",
          "minutes": 11,
          "note": "Study institutional function creep without treating permanence as inevitable."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/safety-without-surveillance",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-005",
          "minutes": 12,
          "note": "Compare safety architectures by data minimization and secondary-use risk."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/cognitive-liberty-for-minors",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-008",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Separate protective limits on manipulative amplification from confidential inquiry."
        },
        {
          "position": 6,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/audit-the-gatekeeper",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-009",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "End with measurable review, appeal, proportionality, and privacy tests."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-004",
      "slug": "power-counterpower",
      "title": "Power, legitimacy, and counterpower",
      "short_title": "Power & counterpower",
      "description": "A sequence for examining authority claims, non-coercive forms of power, revolutionary replication, exit, and moral limits.",
      "goal": "Test power symmetrically: rulers, challengers, and alternatives are all subject to the same legitimacy and ethical questions.",
      "level": "Foundation",
      "estimated_minutes": 54,
      "prerequisites": [],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/authority-is-a-claim",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-019",
          "minutes": 8,
          "note": "Begin by treating authority as something to justify rather than assume."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/power-beyond-force",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-017",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Expand the model of power beyond coercive force."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/promethean-test",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-014",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Evaluate whether a challenger distributes capability or centralizes it."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/after-the-throne",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-015",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Ask whether post-victory institutions reproduce the old structure."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/counterpower-without-monopoly",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-016",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Use exit, interoperability, and pluralism as counterpower tests."
        },
        {
          "position": 6,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/the-civilian-line",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-018",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Keep civilian immunity and moral limits independent of allegiance."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-005",
      "slug": "evidence-provenance",
      "title": "Evidence before narrative",
      "short_title": "Evidence & provenance",
      "description": "A research-literacy path through QAEDA's methodology, public claims ledger, source fingerprints, entity-resolution casework, and disputed quotation provenance.",
      "goal": "Learn how QAEDA separates source identity, factual confidence, editorial synthesis, and visible correction history.",
      "level": "Method",
      "estimated_minutes": 48,
      "prerequisites": [],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "/methodology",
          "minutes": 7,
          "note": "Understand preservation, verification, synthesis, and correction as separate stages."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "/claims",
          "minutes": 6,
          "note": "Inspect the evidence-status vocabulary and revision conditions."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "/evidence",
          "minutes": 6,
          "note": "See what source fingerprints prove—and what they do not prove."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/orange-revelation-epistemic-hygiene",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-013",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Use entity resolution and false friends as an epistemic-hygiene case study."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/rebel-or-die-provenance",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-011",
          "minutes": 11,
          "note": "Trace attribution layers without upgrading contextual similarity into primary-source proof."
        },
        {
          "position": 6,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/how-to-question-dogma",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-020",
          "minutes": 8,
          "note": "Finish with a method for skepticism that can also interrogate itself."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-006",
      "slug": "resistance-ethics",
      "title": "Resistance without moral exemption",
      "short_title": "Resistance ethics",
      "description": "A path through dissent, repression, slogan provenance, civilian immunity, power, and the replication risks that follow victory.",
      "goal": "Analyze resistance without romanticizing coercion or granting rebels an ethical exemption denied to rulers.",
      "level": "Deep dive",
      "estimated_minutes": 47,
      "prerequisites": [
        "Power & counterpower path recommended"
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/the-civilian-line",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-018",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Establish the ethical floor before considering political allegiance."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/rebel-or-die-provenance",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-011",
          "minutes": 11,
          "note": "Separate existential rhetoric from verified provenance and action mode."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/russian-anti-war-language",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-012",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Compare dramatic outsider framing with the documented language of dissent and refusal."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/promethean-test",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-014",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Apply the same power-distribution test to challengers."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/after-the-throne",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-015",
          "minutes": 8,
          "note": "Ask what happens to dissent and minority rights after victory."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-007",
      "slug": "censorship-information-rights",
      "title": "Censorship, information rights, and democratic limits",
      "short_title": "Censorship & information rights",
      "description": "A guided path through visibility control, reader privacy, democratic drift, financial chokepoints, identity, personalized filtering, and proportional review.",
      "goal": "Learn to identify the actor and mechanism of information control before deciding whether a restriction is legitimate, overbroad, or censorship-adjacent.",
      "level": "Deep dive",
      "estimated_minutes": 69,
      "prerequisites": [
        "Orientation path recommended"
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "/censorship",
          "minutes": 6,
          "note": "Start with the mechanism map and QAEDA’s distinction between moderation, direct censorship, and indirect control."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/censorship-beyond-the-ban",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-022",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "See how visibility, distribution, infrastructure, and incentives can restrict information without formal deletion."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/right-to-read-privately",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-023",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Move upstream from public speech to the privacy of reception and inquiry."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/censorship-drift-democracies",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-024",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Examine how legitimate harm prevention can drift when scope and review are weak."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/financial-chokepoints-speech",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-026",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Trace power through payment, banking, advertising, and other financial dependencies."
        },
        {
          "position": 6,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/identity-before-expression",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-029",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "Ask when identity is necessary and when it simply expands the surveillance surface."
        },
        {
          "position": 7,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/personalized-censorship",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-028",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Consider user-specific information boundaries and the evidentiary problem of detecting them."
        },
        {
          "position": 8,
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "/decision-tests",
          "minutes": 7,
          "note": "Apply the non-numeric tests to a concrete proposed restriction."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "QAEDA-COL-008",
      "slug": "resilient-memory-access",
      "title": "Resilient memory and access",
      "short_title": "Memory & resilient access",
      "description": "A path through archives, language, Russian information control, and layered access systems that preserve records without creating a new monopoly.",
      "goal": "Understand information resilience as plural custody and layered access rather than dependence on a single platform or circumvention technology.",
      "level": "Deep dive",
      "estimated_minutes": 47,
      "prerequisites": [
        "Evidence & provenance path recommended"
      ],
      "steps": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/memory-needs-many-custodians",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-025",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Begin with preservation, provenance, and independent custody."
        },
        {
          "position": 2,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/language-as-information-border",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-027",
          "minutes": 9,
          "note": "See how language and translation can create information asymmetry even when records survive."
        },
        {
          "position": 3,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/russia-information-control-stack",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-031",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Study a multi-layer censorship system without reducing it to one technology."
        },
        {
          "position": 4,
          "kind": "article",
          "path": "/articles/resilience-without-new-gatekeeper",
          "document_id": "QAEDA-ART-030",
          "minutes": 10,
          "note": "Compare plural access, redundancy, privacy, and accountability trade-offs."
        },
        {
          "position": 5,
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "/evidence",
          "minutes": 8,
          "note": "Finish by checking source fingerprints and the public source-to-claim relationships."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}