What we will not do
A world that can be trusted has to be a world that can be held to something. Each principle below states a commitment, the specific things it rules out, and how an outsider can check it.
Nothing on these pages moves for decoration. Stone, typography, documents, evidence.
- The person is not the productNo part of Rebirth is funded by selling attention, behaviour or identity to a third party.
- State what is realAnything not yet built is labelled BUILDING or HORIZON, everywhere it appears, without exception.
- Leaving must workEverything a person creates can be exported in a usable, documented format, at any time, without asking.
- Intelligence declares itselfEvery machine-generated output states that it is machine-generated, where it came from and how confident it is.
- A human path always existsAny consequential automated decision can be reviewed by a person, and the route to that person is visible at the point of the decision.
- One record, many territoriesA person carries a single identity and a single record across every territory, and they own both.
- The terms come firstNo capability opens to the public before the terms governing it are published in plain language.
- Build in the openThe construction record is published as the work happens, including the decisions that turned out to be wrong.
- Attention is not a resource to mineNothing in Rebirth is designed to extend a session beyond the point at which the person is done.
- Security is part of the productVulnerabilities are disclosed, incidents are reported with a timeline, and neither waits for a news cycle.
- Value returns to the people who make itWhere people create value inside the world, the mechanism that returns value to them is published alongside the mechanism that takes a share.
- Hold us to thisThese principles are versioned, publicly challengeable, and cited in the decisions they constrain.