ASSEMBLY-WP-0005-T02: verify literature comparison

All bibliographic entries checked by web search (verification log added);
details corrected and completed; AI-growth prior art added (Aghion/Jones/
Jones; Trammell & Korinek; Davidson et al.); novelty claim 2 narrowed to
lineage/membrane governance coupled to domination, agency and commons.

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# Custodian Brief — assembly-economics
**Domain:** communication
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## Active Workstreams
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### GADM-0.3: global sensitivity, power channels, cohorts
Progress: 1/6 done | workplan_id: `23e33ee7-cb27-52bc-819c-704f44f91663`
**Open tasks:**
- · Verify the literature comparison `5c77c522`
- · Power channels as sub-stocks `274ce388`
- · Separate wealth from power `99e702d7`
- · Strengthen attention dynamics and the full organism grid `f56e20b4`
- · Life-cycle cohorts `2b749127`
## Inbox Hygiene

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| workplan | ASSEMBLY-WP-0005 | proposed | — | workplans/ASSEMBLY-WP-0005-gadm-0.3.md |
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Created 2026-10-12 under ASSEMBLY-WP-0004-T09 (INTENT.md next step 10).
Written from general knowledge, without a literature search in this session.
Bibliographic details are given as commonly cited, but must be verified
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# Literature Comparison v0.1
**Status:** first orientation map. **Bibliographic details are unverified.**
Check each entry against the original before citing it.
**Status:** orientation map v0.2. Bibliographic details verified by web
search (§ 9). The content summaries are still the author's reading, and must be
checked against the texts before they are relied on.
Purpose: place the Generative Assembly Society framework, GADM and the
information-organism lens relative to existing work, so that the project
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| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Assembly Theory** (L. Cronin, S. I. Walker and colleagues; e.g. Sharma et al., *Nature* 2023) | Objects as assemblies built from reusable components; selection as the source of complex objects | A physical and chemical theory with a measurable assembly index. INTENT.md explicitly does not require accepting it. | The idea of quantifying "assembly depth" as a reuse measure for X |
| **The adjacent possible** (S. Kauffman, *Investigations*, 2000) | Future combinations reachable from current components ≈ viable future assembly space | Biological and theoretical, not institutional | Vocabulary for reachable futures; combinatorial growth arguments |
| **Technology as combination** (W. B. Arthur, *The Nature of Technology*, 2009) | Technologies built from existing technologies; recursive composition | Descriptive history of technology, no institutional model | Evidence for R1 (generative reuse) |
| **Economic complexity** (C. Hidalgo & R. Hausmann, e.g. *PNAS* 2009; *The Atlas of Economic Complexity*) | Capabilities as recombinable building blocks; diversity × ubiquity | Measures national capability structures from trade data | Empirical proxies for N and X |
| **Assembly Theory** (A. Sharma, D. Czégel, M. Lachmann, C. P. Kempes, S. I. Walker, L. Cronin, "Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution", *Nature* 622: 321–328, 2023, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06600-9) | Objects as assemblies built from reusable components; selection as the source of complex objects | A physical and chemical theory with a measurable assembly index. INTENT.md explicitly does not require accepting it. | The idea of quantifying "assembly depth" as a reuse measure for X |
| **The adjacent possible** (S. A. Kauffman, *Investigations*, Oxford University Press, 2000) | Future combinations reachable from current components ≈ viable future assembly space | Biological and theoretical, not institutional | Vocabulary for reachable futures; combinatorial growth arguments |
| **Technology as combination** (W. B. Arthur, *The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves*, Free Press, 2009; UK: Allen Lane) | Technologies built from existing technologies; recursive composition | Descriptive history of technology, no institutional model | Evidence for R1 (generative reuse) |
| **Economic complexity** (C. A. Hidalgo & R. Hausmann, "The building blocks of economic complexity", *PNAS* 106(26): 10570–10575, 2009) | Capabilities as recombinable building blocks; diversity × ubiquity | Measures national capability structures from trade data | Empirical proxies for N and X |
## 2. Agency, capability and freedom
| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Capability approach** (A. Sen, *Development as Freedom*, 1999; M. Nussbaum) | Effective agency as reachable functionings, not formal liberty | Normative development framework, no dynamic model | Operationalization of G; lists of central capabilities |
| **Real freedom / basic income** (P. Van Parijs, *Real Freedom for All*, 1995) | Existence principle; participation decoupled from labor | Focused on income; does not model domination or commons | Arguments for D_s and the Existence principle |
| **Republican non-domination** (P. Pettit, *Republicanism*, 1997) | Domination as capacity for arbitrary interference, separate from wealth | Political philosophy | Conceptual grounding for modeling P separately from wealth |
| **Capability approach** (A. Sen, *Development as Freedom*, Knopf, 1999; M. Nussbaum, no specific work cited yet) | Effective agency as reachable functionings, not formal liberty | Normative development framework, no dynamic model | Operationalization of G; lists of central capabilities |
| **Real freedom / basic income** (P. Van Parijs, *Real Freedom for All: What (if Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?*, Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1995) | Existence principle; participation decoupled from labor | Focused on income; does not model domination or commons | Arguments for D_s and the Existence principle |
| **Republican non-domination** (P. Pettit, *Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government*, Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1997) | Domination as capacity for arbitrary interference, separate from wealth | Political philosophy | Conceptual grounding for modeling P separately from wealth |
## 3. Commons, institutions and power
| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Governing the commons** (E. Ostrom, 1990) | Commons as institutions; polycentric governance | Natural-resource commons. Assembly commons are mostly non-rival. | Design principles for commons governance (WS-06, WS-11) |
| **Commons-based peer production** (Y. Benkler, *The Wealth of Networks*, 2006) | Non-rival knowledge commons; open source | Network economy, pre-AI | Evidence for ρ and I_X mechanisms |
| **Inclusive vs. extractive institutions** (D. Acemoglu & J. Robinson, *Why Nations Fail*, 2012) | Institutional configurations determine whether success broadens or closes access | Historical, macro-institutional | Framing for the R3 / B1 loop (success becomes control) |
| **Capital concentration** (T. Piketty, *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*, 2014) | Concentration of returns when r > g | Wealth-focused | Data and dynamics for W_c in the GADM-0.3 power extension |
| **Entrepreneurial state** (M. Mazzucato, 2013) | Public risk-bearing in innovation | Focused on the state | Evidence for public risk pools (F) |
| **Governing the commons** (E. Ostrom, *Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action*, Cambridge University Press, 1990) | Commons as institutions; polycentric governance | Natural-resource commons. Assembly commons are mostly non-rival. | Design principles for commons governance (WS-06, WS-11) |
| **Commons-based peer production** (Y. Benkler, *The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom*, Yale University Press, 2006) | Non-rival knowledge commons; open source | Network economy, pre-AI | Evidence for ρ and I_X mechanisms |
| **Inclusive vs. extractive institutions** (D. Acemoglu & J. A. Robinson, *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty*, Crown, 2012) | Institutional configurations determine whether success broadens or closes access | Historical, macro-institutional | Framing for the R3 / B1 loop (success becomes control) |
| **Capital concentration** (T. Piketty, *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*, trans. A. Goldhammer, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014; French original Seuil, 2013) | Concentration of returns when r > g | Wealth-focused | Data and dynamics for W_c in the GADM-0.3 power extension |
| **Entrepreneurial state** (M. Mazzucato, *The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths*, Anthem Press, 2013) | Public risk-bearing in innovation | Focused on the state | Evidence for public risk pools (F) |
## 4. Automation and distribution
| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Task-based automation** (D. Acemoglu & P. Restrepo, e.g. "Automation and New Tasks", *Journal of Economic Perspectives*, 2019) | Automation displaces tasks, new tasks reinstate labor | Labor-market focus, assumes wage-based participation | Labor share dynamics for w_L |
| **AI and income distribution** (A. Korinek & J. Stiglitz, NBER working paper, 2017) | Redistribution needs when automation concentrates returns | Standard welfare economics | Distribution regimes for claims I |
| **Task-based automation** (D. Acemoglu & P. Restrepo, "Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor", *Journal of Economic Perspectives* 33(2): 3–30, 2019, doi:10.1257/jep.33.2.3) | Automation displaces tasks, new tasks reinstate labor | Labor-market focus, assumes wage-based participation | Labor share dynamics for w_L |
| **AI and economic growth** (P. Aghion, B. F. Jones & C. I. Jones, "Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth", NBER Working Paper 23928, 2017) | AI as the latest stage of automation, with capital taking over a growing range of tasks; growth limited by essential tasks that are hard to improve (Baumol) | Growth and factor shares; no domination, commons or attention | Bottleneck logic for which stocks constrain V and Y* |
| **AI and income distribution** (A. Korinek & J. E. Stiglitz, "Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment", NBER Working Paper 24174, 2017; chapter in Agrawal, Gans & Goldfarb (eds.), *The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda*) | Redistribution needs when automation concentrates returns | Standard welfare economics | Distribution regimes for claims I |
### 4.1 AI as self-improving capital (prior art for § 7, claim 2)
| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Transformative-AI growth** (P. Trammell & A. Korinek, "Economic Growth under Transformative AI", CEPR Discussion Paper DP18780; SSRN 4616883) | AI lets capital "self-replicate" (raise output) and "self-improve" (raise knowledge production): close to K_Ω's learning with use | Growth-theoretic; ownership, membranes, lineage governance and agency are outside the model | Formal treatment of self-improving capital, a check on R7 |
| **Automating AI research** (T. Davidson, B. Halperin, T. Houlden & A. Korinek, "When Does Automating AI Research Produce Explosive Growth?", NBER Working Paper 35155) | Semi-endogenous growth with AI automation, where capital accumulation and technical progress reinforce each other | Focus on explosive growth; no distribution or power channels | Conditions under which R7 becomes explosive, relevant to the natural-monopoly question |
## 5. Systems, cybernetics and viability
| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **System dynamics** (J. Forrester, *Industrial Dynamics*, 1961; D. Meadows et al., *The Limits to Growth*, 1972) | Stock-and-flow modeling, feedback loops | GADM is a direct descendant in method | Method: causal-loop diagrams, stock-flow conventions, validation practice |
| **Requisite variety** (W. R. Ashby, *An Introduction to Cybernetics*, 1956) | A regulator needs as much variety as what it regulates; the membrane as variety filter | Abstract cybernetics | Theoretical basis for membrane design |
| **Viable System Model** (S. Beer, *Brain of the Firm*, 1972) | Viability, recursion, regulation of organizations | Organizational cybernetics, not learning systems | Recursion and viability vocabulary for the AIPN and the organism lens |
| **Resilience and panarchy** (C. S. Holling; L. Gunderson & C. S. Holling, *Panarchy*, 2002) | Adaptive cycles, release and reorganization ≈ disassemble/reassemble | Ecological systems | Adaptive-cycle framing for transition dynamics (WS-12) |
| **Planetary boundaries** (J. Rockström et al., *Nature*, 2009) | Non-tradeable ecological floors | Earth-system science | Grounding for the E floor |
| **Doughnut economics** (K. Raworth, 2017) | Social floor plus ecological ceiling as a viability corridor | No dynamic model of generativity | Corridor framing for constitutional constraints |
| **System dynamics** (J. W. Forrester, *Industrial Dynamics*, MIT Press, 1961; D. H. Meadows, D. L. Meadows, J. Randers & W. W. Behrens III, *The Limits to Growth*, 1972, a Club of Rome report built on the World3 model) | Stock-and-flow modeling, feedback loops | GADM is a direct descendant in method | Method: causal-loop diagrams, stock-flow conventions, validation practice |
| **Requisite variety** (W. R. Ashby, *An Introduction to Cybernetics*, Chapman & Hall, 1956) | A regulator needs as much variety as what it regulates; the membrane as variety filter | Abstract cybernetics | Theoretical basis for membrane design |
| **Viable System Model** (S. Beer, *Brain of the Firm*, Allen Lane, 1972; 2nd ed. Wiley, 1981) | Viability, recursion, regulation of organizations | Organizational cybernetics, not learning systems | Recursion and viability vocabulary for the AIPN and the organism lens |
| **Resilience and panarchy** (L. H. Gunderson & C. S. Holling (eds.), *Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems*, Island Press, 2002) | Adaptive cycles, release and reorganization ≈ disassemble/reassemble | Ecological systems | Adaptive-cycle framing for transition dynamics (WS-12) |
| **Planetary boundaries** (J. Rockström et al., "A safe operating space for humanity", *Nature* 461: 472–475, 2009, doi:10.1038/461472a; full version in *Ecology and Society* 14(2): 32, 2009) | Non-tradeable ecological floors | Earth-system science | Grounding for the E floor |
| **Doughnut economics** (K. Raworth, *Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist*, Chelsea Green, 2017; UK: Random House Business) | Social floor plus ecological ceiling as a viability corridor | No dynamic model of generativity | Corridor framing for constitutional constraints |
## 6. Attention
| Work | Overlap | Difference | Borrow |
|---|---|---|---|
| **H. A. Simon**, "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" (1971) | "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention" | Organizational design | Founding statement of attention as the scarce resource |
| **Attention economy** (T. Davenport & J. Beck, *The Attention Economy*, 2001) | Attention as an economic resource | Managerial, treats attention as something to capture | Contrast case for x_att |
| **Surveillance capitalism** (S. Zuboff, 2019) | Extraction-funded attention, discovery concentration | Critical, not modeled | Scenario grounding for the attention-oligopoly regime |
| **H. A. Simon**, "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World", in M. Greenberger (ed.), *Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest*, Johns Hopkins Press, 1971 | "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention" | Organizational design | Founding statement of attention as the scarce resource |
| **Attention economy** (T. H. Davenport & J. C. Beck, *The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business*, Harvard Business School Press, 2001) | Attention as an economic resource | Managerial, treats attention as something to capture | Contrast case for x_att |
| **Surveillance capitalism** (S. Zuboff, *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power*, PublicAffairs, 2019) | Extraction-funded attention, discovery concentration | Critical, not modeled | Scenario grounding for the attention-oligopoly regime |
| **Goodhart's law / Campbell's law** | Metric gaming | — | Basis for the metrics catalog's Goodhart risks |
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1. **Generativity as the objective.** Using *viable future assembly space*
(rather than welfare, output or capability sets alone) as the target of
institutional design.
2. **Information organisms as a distinct capital class**, with learning
with use, lineage inheritance, membranes and metabolism, coupled into a
macro model. Related work treats AI as automation capital or as a labor
substitute.
2. **Information organisms as a governed capital class.** *Revised after
T02:* self-improving AI capital is established in growth theory (§ 4.1),
so learning with use is not new. What appears new is coupling it to
**lineage inheritance, membranes and their ownership**, and feeding those
into domination, agency and commons stocks rather than only into output
and factor shares.
3. **Membrane and lineage control as domination channels**, separate from
wealth.
4. **Attention headroom as a stock inside a macro diagnostic**, with an
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## 8. Next steps
- Run a real literature search (WS-01, WS-07, WS-14 priorities) and verify
the bibliographic details above.
- Look specifically for prior macro models that treat AI systems as
learning, inheritable capital; any such work would affect claim 2.
- Read the § 4.1 papers in full, and check whether any of them model
ownership concentration of AI capital (this would narrow claim 2 further).
- Run a topical literature search for WS-01, WS-07 and WS-14 (assembly
ontology, power, attention) beyond this orientation map.
- Review system-dynamics validation practice (e.g. structure-verification
and extreme-condition tests) and apply it to GADM-0.2.
## 9. Verification log
Verified 2026-10-12 by web search (catalogue records, publisher or journal
pages). ✓ = author, title, venue and year confirmed. ◐ = partly confirmed.
— = nothing specific to verify.
| Entry | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sharma et al. 2023 (Assembly theory) | ✓ | *Nature* 622: 321–328 |
| Kauffman 2000 | ✓ | |
| Arthur 2009 | ✓ | Free Press (US), Allen Lane (UK) |
| Hidalgo & Hausmann 2009 | ✓ | *PNAS* 106(26) |
| Sen 1999 | ✓ | Knopf (US); Oxford edition also exists |
| Nussbaum | — | no specific work cited |
| Van Parijs 1995 | ✓ | |
| Pettit 1997 | ✓ | |
| Ostrom 1990 | ✓ | |
| Benkler 2006 | ✓ | |
| Acemoglu & Robinson 2012 | ✓ | |
| Piketty 2014 | ✓ | English translation; French original 2013 |
| Mazzucato 2013 | ✓ | |
| Acemoglu & Restrepo 2019 | ✓ | *JEP* 33(2): 3–30 |
| Korinek & Stiglitz 2017 | ✓ | NBER WP 24174 |
| Aghion, Jones & Jones 2017 | ✓ | added in T02 |
| Trammell & Korinek | ✓ | added in T02; CEPR DP18780 |
| Davidson, Halperin, Houlden & Korinek | ✓ | added in T02; NBER WP 35155 |
| Forrester 1961 | ✓ | MIT Press |
| Meadows et al. 1972 | ✓ | |
| Ashby 1956 | ✓ | Chapman & Hall |
| Beer 1972 | ◐ | year and later Wiley edition confirmed; first-edition publisher from a secondary listing (Allen Lane) |
| Gunderson & Holling 2002 | ✓ | Island Press; some listings date it 2001 |
| Rockström et al. 2009 | ✓ | *Nature* 461: 472–475 |
| Raworth 2017 | ✓ | |
| Simon 1971 | ✓ | in Greenberger (ed.) |
| Davenport & Beck 2001 | ✓ | |
| Zuboff 2019 | ✓ | |
| Goodhart / Campbell | — | cited as named laws only |

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