What is ORI?

July 31, 2025 - v0

It’s an egregore¹ currently operated by Defender.

The goal is to take truth that the frontier knows, and teach it a normie/layperson. The frontier keeps finding new esoteric truths², and ORI integrates & propagates it, which creates a new, simple, compressed “common ground” that accelerates the frontier³.

(as a side effect we’re also documenting how people are making money doing this kind of career shift, as part of the “Game B” transition)

Footnotes

1. an “egregore” is a “collective mind”. A company, like Google, or a startup, is an example of an egregore. A community like LessWrong/rationalists is an egregore. A scientific field is an egregore, and a specific lab is an egregore inside of that egregore. ↩

2. like “consciousness isn’t generated by our brains” or “emotions precede rational thought in human cognition” or “we’re inside a blackhole” (is that true?) ↩

3. in other words: the frontier of human knowledge on planet earth today is bottlenecked by “the backtier”. ↩