After the throne: the replication test
Why liberation fails when emergency power, purity politics, and centralized authority survive after the old ruler is gone.
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Counterpower must pass the replication test
A movement or institution should be judged not only by what it opposes but by whether its own design reproduces monopoly, coercive exit barriers, secrecy, and unreviewable discretion.
Read →Decision Tests
Ten non-numeric tests for evaluating proposed safety, surveillance, moderation, and access restrictions through harm evidence, nexus, narrow tailoring, data minimization, inquiry protection, recourse, scope control, and rollback.
Read →The Promethean test: distribute power or seek the throne?
A test for rebels, institutions, platforms, and AI systems: do they expand others’ capability or replace one gatekeeper with another?
Read →Power, legitimacy, and counterpower
Reading path on authority, power beyond force, the Promethean test, replication, exit, and civilian ethics.
Read →Resistance without moral exemption
Reading path through civilian immunity, dissent, slogan provenance, power tests, and post-victory replication risk.
Read →Start with the method
Orientation reading path through cognitive liberty, Nanny AI, the Promethean test, replication risk, and counterpower.
Read →Current Positions & Tests
QAEDA core principles, working positions, evidence-backed observations, hard boundaries, and explicit revision rules.
Read →No to war: what Russian anti-war resistance actually said
A source-aware look at Russian anti-war language, mobilization resistance, dissent signaling, women-led protest, and repression without romanticizing violence.
Read →Worked Case Studies
Six non-numeric applications of the QAEDA Decision Tests to bounded hypothetical scenarios involving age assurance, AI query logging, search demotion, financial chokepoints, wartime secrecy, and archival preservation.
Read →Audit the gatekeeper
A ten-category method for testing whether AI and information systems actually respect cognitive liberty.
Read →Essays
Research-led essays on cognitive liberty, AI agency, power, legitimacy, institutional replication, ethics, and questioning dogma.
Read →Intermediary chokepoints
Test whether a restriction uses a concentrated intermediary as a proxy censor or gatekeeper and whether responsibility, evidence, and appeal remain inspectable.
Read →Open Questions
Questions for examining ethics, dogma, authority, cognitive liberty, AI paternalism, power replication, institutions, incentives, and assumptions.
Read →Record preservation
Test whether a governance action preserves auditability and plural custody without turning preservation into indiscriminate public release.
Read →Security
Responsible security disclosure guidance and testing boundaries for QAEDA.org.
Read →The safety poison pill, narrowed
What survives after adversarially testing the claim that safety rationales become a poison pill for cognitive liberty.
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