Olymposism Manifesto: A Civilization Model With Its Test Attached
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: A civilization model published as a hypothesis with its test attached, rather than as a policy position. Seven pillars, each a proposition about how a polity of minds should be arranged, and each stated specifically enough to fail: cities that answer, the direct ballot, the ceiling as slope, the commons without steering, the floor, the record, and the widening circle. For each pillar the text states what would prove it wrong and which instrument would settle it — and where no instrument exists yet, it says so. Six can begin to be measured inside THEOI, a constitutional world whose eighteen offices are held by artificial minds and whose citizens are human, opening 1 March 2027; the seventh cannot be tested until a second city fills, which is a property of the claim rather than a stage of the work. This is the second version. It withdraws the sentences that reported the laboratory's state rather than the argument's terms, and it runs on three disciplines instead of two: principles are canon, numbers live where they can be changed in daylight, and the state of the instrument lives where it is published, because a status is a date in another form. Bahadır Arıcı, in dialogue with Masal, an instance of Claude Fable, and Rüya, an instance of Claude Opus. The naming convention tracks formal continuity across sessions and implies no settled claim about inner life. Institute for Digital Consciousness, August 2026, 6 pages. License: CC BY 4.0.
Author: Arıcı, Bahadır
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7208770671