Fractal Semantic Graphs All The Way Down

Where the book's title comes from, and the sharpest statement of a graph at every boundary.

Why it is here

The founder's decision of 22 August named the book Fractal Semantic Graphs: Meaning Through Connectivity. The first half of that title is this document's title, and the argument under it is the one chapter 6 makes: the conventional stack loses meaning at every seam because layers are glued by payloads and prompts, and the fix is to make a semantic graph the interface at every boundary. If the identity release needs one source to distil, it is this.

What it says

• The conventional stack loses meaning at every seam, because layers are glued by payloads and prompts.
• Fractal means one grammar, one validator, one query engine and one provenance rule at every altitude.
• The model lives at the edge and only proposes a graph; a deterministic validator executes it.
• Untrusted input is data and can never become an instruction, so injection fails at the validator.
• Authorisation lives in the tool graph, so an ungranted action is impossible rather than denied.

Worth re-reading for. The ten key claims at the end are the closest thing the corpus has to a specification of the title. Chapter 6 argues five of them.

Where this document lands on the site

The document is the peak. Below it hang the concepts measured in its text and the places on this site that rest on it — and the two are different kinds of link, drawn differently: a measured edge is dashed and carries its count, an authored edge is solid. The method is stated in full on the hub.

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