Glossary · 31 entries in five groups
The words that make the system intelligible
Every entry offers a one-sentence definition, a fuller explanation, an honest account of unresolved questions and a link to the relevant guide section. Throughout the guide, these terms have a dotted underline: hover or tap to see a definition without leaving the page.
Mechanism · reading order
Concepts build on one another
Voting relies on IPI, and IPI relies on the Tree of Knowledge. Select a concept: gold highlights its foundations; blue highlights what depends on it. Lower concepts are more foundational.
Infocracy itself is not on the map, because Infocracy is the whole map. One sentence underlies the rest: your voting weight reflects what you know, multiplied by how honestly you act.
All entries
From foundations to the wider world
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Mechanism · test yourself
Eight definitions. Can you name the concepts?
Read a definition without its name and choose from four answers. No time limit, no penalty. Incorrect answers suggest what to read next. Your best score stays in your browser.
What is deliberately left out
A glossary is not a legal code
Every entry includes an “intentionally unresolved” section. These are not gaps to conceal, but invitations to improve the proposal. Figures such as 30%, 1.00 and 80/20 are examples from the author’s materials, not settled law.
Three source articles—on Intelligent Anarchy, Dynamic Truth and Cultural Regions—exist in the project only as page images. Their definitions therefore draw on the guide and book and are marked partial. Any misunderstanding in this glossary is exactly the kind of issue worth reporting.
Where to go next
You know the words. Now see them at work.
the whole system in twenty minutes, with an interactive mechanism in each section
Room 02Tree of Knowledgeone app: the knowledge map, a voting issue, the Exchange and patent dependencies
Room 04How voting worksseventeen steps and a staged-voting simulator
Questions and doubts“Sounds interesting, but…”the questions people ask first
ContactTell us where you got lostevery unclear term is something to improve