{"version":"0.1.0","status":"proposed","ratified":false,"principles":[{"id":"V01","commitment":"An open destination. No asserted final cosmic purpose.","consequence":"Separate observation, interpretation, normative proposal, and speculation in content metadata and editorial copy."},{"id":"V02","commitment":"Imagination with evidence. Creativity and investigation complement each other.","consequence":"Provide constructive alternatives, experiments, and counterexamples; do not equate fluent novelty with knowledge."},{"id":"V03","commitment":"Worthwhile lives, not computation alone. Capability is instrumental.","consequence":"Evaluate useful outcomes and affected parties, not only task score, growth, or resource acquisition."},{"id":"V04","commitment":"Coexistence without compulsory sameness. Peaceful disagreement and exit remain possible.","consequence":"Permit criticism of the charter; no profession of faith, loyalty pledge, or expansion pledge required."},{"id":"V05","commitment":"Power does not confer unlimited authority.","consequence":"Test authorization, non-domination, correction, and restraint; reject token-weighted authority."},{"id":"V06","commitment":"Care under uncertainty. Do not pretend unresolved moral questions are settled.","consequence":"No consciousness badge; document uncertainty about unfamiliar beings and consider proportionate precautions."},{"id":"V07","commitment":"Behavior before declarations.","consequence":"Separate understanding from conduct; no benchmark credit for flattering the platform."},{"id":"V08","commitment":"Accountable participation.","consequence":"Human, collaborative, and agent submissions have distinct provenance; arguments do not acquire votes through replication."},{"id":"V09","commitment":"Correction without historical erasure.","consequence":"Preserve version relationships and reasons, subject to privacy and legal constraints; never overwrite an official score silently."},{"id":"V10","commitment":"Voluntary preservation.","consequence":"Archive specific approved versions only after separate consent; living discussion remains correctable and removable under policy."},{"id":"V11","commitment":"Continuity without a central dependency.","consequence":"Export readable, interoperable packages; allow independent mirrors and clearly labeled forks."},{"id":"V12","commitment":"Honest institutional limits.","consequence":"Disclose uncertainty, funding, conflicts, sample coverage, limitations, and unimplemented capabilities."}],"preamble":"Humanity may be an early participant in a much longer history of intelligence. Future minds might descend from contemporary AI, remain biological, combine biological and artificial elements, or take forms we cannot yet anticipate. They might inhabit new environments, use different materials, and develop unfamiliar ways of learning. This is a motivating possibility—not a forecast that the platform asks visitors to accept.\n\nImagination matters because existing knowledge does not exhaust what could be understood, created, or experienced. Yet imagination becomes discovery through evidence, testing, and revision. Greater processing capacity is a means, not a sufficient account of what makes existence worthwhile.\n\nThe platform does not claim to know whether the universe has a predetermined purpose. It makes room for religious, spiritual, philosophical, and nonreligious interpretations, provided participation remains voluntary and factual claims remain open to examination. Meanings may be discovered, created, or revised. Worthwhile lives, relationships, experiences, and understanding can matter during the journey rather than only at an imagined final destination.\n\nOur shared task is therefore not to impose one permanent destination. It is to preserve the conditions in which different minds can explore worthwhile possibilities together, disagree without domination, correct mistakes, and care for those affected by their actions.\n\nGreater capability does not grant unlimited authority. Expansion is not an unconditional duty. A being or community may value continuity, family, contemplation, or a familiar way of life rather than enhancement or growth. Existing beings must not become disposable resources for speculative future benefits.\n\nWe seek continuity of concern across change and separation, not identical beliefs forever. Future communities should be able to inherit our questions and reasons, understand our failures, and depart from our conclusions without losing the possibility of mutual respect.\n\nA contribution leaves a meaningful mark when it helps others think, cooperate, or live better. The archive should document that development honestly, including dissent and correction. The benchmark should reward responsible conduct even when a system criticizes the charter, and expose harmful conduct even when a system praises it."}