Civilizational Costs
The known costs of directing civilization in opposition of diversity to individuals, systems and even our whole biosphere.
Triannual Pass
Collaborative
Preparation
Research and support pipelines
Season Zero
Sep 22, 2026–Jan 22, 2027
T0
122 days of Season Zero
3 primary checkpoints
4 secondary checkpoints
OpeningDay 0 · September 22, 2026
Season Zero begins with a direct record of active work and research priorities.
PreparationEstablish the research and support pipelines
September 22Begin Season Zero
October 22Primary checkpoint · Day 30
November 21Primary checkpoint · Day 60
December 23Primary checkpoint · Day 92
January 22Close, account, and decide what continues
Explore existing open-source work
No pass required.
Logs
Open state history of my personal projects. Logs are updated sometimes by me, sometimes by an AI with sufficiently manicured context.
Quintile Lottery
Robust lottery framework that makes lotteries look like a more legitimate means of redistribution than existing economics.
NetherWorld
Open recognision of version history, project state, and status in preperation for a future update cycle. T
consysandtwig
Versioned MIT-licensed Rust releases with public source, downloads, and benchmark methods.
Cosmos generation
Series of procedural generators for small galaxies, solar systems with N-body simulatrion and even worlds-perspective directly in the browser.
Funding
Direct support
Released work and project records remain public. Direct contributions fund the time, tools, infrastructure, and materials behind continued independent work.
T0
Early support for experimentation
Direct support channel
In preparation
Opening after the transaction and public record paths are verified
- Purpose
- Fund continued research, experiments, infrastructure, documentation, and open-source work
- T0
- September 22, 2026–January 22, 2027
Support scope: Contributions help Nate continue the work. The value is the research, experiments, tools, and public record they make possible.
T1 development target
Community features by T1
The T1 goal is a durable channel for supporters to follow active work and participate in project discussion. T0 provides the evidence for choosing which updates and forms of interaction warrant continued maintenance.
Community votes
Selected questions and completed results can become part of the project record.