Compute Standard
Compute treated as a strategic reserve asset rather than a neutral technical input.
Concept Index
The vocabulary behind Kris Ledel's writing on AI infrastructure, compute sovereignty, mind architecture, accountability and signal.
This is the compressed map behind the essays: the terms that make the larger argument easier to enter without flattening it into categories.
Infrastructure as jurisdiction
The moment a platform becomes too essential to opt out of, it begins to behave like a jurisdiction.
Stack sovereignty
The ability to audit and govern a system depends on control of the layers beneath it.
Accountability gap
The distance between the actor who benefits from a system and the actor who absorbs its failure.
Mind architecture
A public name for the Sapiexo question: what kind of machine would need to exist if prediction and reward are not enough?
Causal memory
Memory that stores why something works, not only that it appeared.
Proof abundance
The shift that follows when candidate proofs become cheap and judgement becomes scarce.
Signal
The value of a judgement changes with the incentive behind it.