Reflection — the author's ~24 principles: what's captured, what's still yours to give
Editorial judgment, 2026-07-19. You said ~two dozen exist; ten arrived as your founding list, and your directions since have implied more. Here is the honest mirror: located · inferred · and what I recommend.
The ten you stated — all located in canon
Safety First → P19's irreversibility clause + P21's bounded downside (see below — I now think this under-serves it). As-fast-as-possible-as-slow-as-necessary → P19 verbatim. Your loop → the cycle, structurally intact. Regen>Degen → P20. Infinite-sum → spread across 11/14/23 (candidate below). Nature-transparent-given-lenses → the lens method + P3. Information-is-power-give-it-all → the Truth care ethic. Love>Fear → People care's design stance. Start-small-scale-fast → P8+P19. Deep-thought→optimal-action → P1.
Inferred from your directions since — with verdicts
- Design for safety (you flagged it; I agree I under-placed it): scattered across P19/P21 it reads as risk management; your practice treats it as a first commitment. RECOMMEND: promote to candidate C28 — "First, make it safe to fail": safety not as caution but as the precondition of honest experiment (a safe-to-fail probe is how complex systems are explored at all); covers physical, psychological, and systemic safety. Strong case for ratification.
- Infinite-sum, no zero-sum: currently diluted across three principles. HOLD as is — the falsification pairs never showed it discriminating alone — but revisit if the amendment queue surfaces it.
- "It takes a village" / guild your people: companion-planting for humans — who thrives next to whom. RECOMMEND candidate C29 — "Guild your people": place people as guilds, not lists; the mentor beside the beginner, the skeptic beside the visionary, the elder in reach of the child. Nothing in the 24 quite carries it.
- Experience over study ("literacy comes from experience"): partially in the practice door. RECOMMEND one clause added to the rendering ladder's practice tier rather than a principle.
- Beauty as evidence (your S7 gap + my earlier flag): Alexander's Quality Without a Name — living systems look alive, and ordinary people can feel it; ugliness is usually a symptom. RECOMMEND candidate C30 — "Let beauty be evidence" — with the honest caveat that beauty can be faked (the shadow: aesthetic capture), so it corroborates, never overrides.
- You can't solve money with money → already the soul of C26; fold, don't duplicate.
- Teach what you master / return the surplus as knowledge → P23's reciprocity carries it; fold with a line added at P23's depth page.
- Radical transparency / verbatim-first → P3 + P7 carry it. Located.
The honest remainder
That accounts for roughly eighteen of your two dozen. The last handful exist only where they have always been — in you. The amendment queue is open, and fragments suffice: two words each, any order, any time. The set will not be complete until they land, and I would rather hold the gap open honestly than pad it with guesses.
Recommended for your ratification: C28 safety · C29 guilds · C30 beauty. All three are lens-derived, domain-general, and not carried by the existing 24 — they pass the bar.