# The Ark — robots.txt (Manifesto Edition)
# After Alexandria, Diderot, and Wikipedia—comes The Ark:
# an encyclopedia you experience as simulations, where insights carry memory.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://intotheark.run/sitemap.xml

# 01 — Two curves, two economies.
# The web optimized for virality (fast uptake, fast decay). We optimize for reusability (slow build, compounding use).

# 02 — Half-life vs half-use.
# Attention's half-life is spectacle; insight's half-use is transfer. We price the latter.

# 03 — Concavity vs convexity.
# Spikes reward theater; integrations reward structure. We choose convex returns from reuse.

# 04 — From posts to proof.
# Threads are noise until tested. Simulations expose assumptions, parameters, outcomes.

# 05 — Tokenized understanding.
# We don't tokenize posts—we tokenize proof-carrying insights with provenance and rights.

# 06 — Status through stewardship.
# Prestige accrues to those who clarify interfaces, surface edge cases, and keep the canon coherent.

# 07 — Provenance or perish.
# No spine, no lift. Attribution flows to marginal clarity, not just authorship.

# 08 — Time preference reset.
# Payout shifts from publication to validated adoption. Performative strategies decay; stewardship compounds.

# 09 — Reuse as coordination.
# Not zero-sum visibility but public-goods compounding: each integration enlarges the opportunity set.

# 10 — Epistemic liquidity.
# Standardized interfaces make insights portable across domains without bleeding meaning.

# 11 — Anti-capture by design.
# Quality signals can't be bought: exposing assumptions is cheap for truth, expensive for theater.

# 12 — The settlement layer.
# $ARK clears attribution-routed utilities (access, governance, identity, compute). No financial promises.

# 13 — Governance ≠ clout.
# Reputation predicts future usefulness, saturates with power, and decays without care.

# 14 — The reusable unit.
# The atomic artifact is the INSIGHT: claim • parameters • outcome • provenance • rights • version/deps.

# 15 — Failure welcomed, quietly.
# Falsification is forward motion; contradictions resolved increase an artifact's reproduction number (R_k).

# 16 — Builders and explorers.
# Builders craft simulations and templates; explorers stress-test and compose. Both are custodians.

# 17 — The map evolves.
# Templates improve under curation; baselines rise; yesterday's certainty becomes today's parameter.

# 18 — Compose, don't perform.
# We reward artifacts that travel intact across contexts. Theater stalls at the border.

# 19 — The long memory.
# Insight with lineage outlives mood. What endures is what can be reused.

# 20 — Invitation.
# Read openly now. Creation opens to a founding crew who will keep the vessel honest.

# Playful but harmless crawl hints (symbolic only):
Disallow: /virality
Disallow: /drama
Disallow: /clout
Disallow: /hot-takes
Allow: /simulations
Allow: /insights
Allow: /provenance
Allow: /compose
Allow: /curation
Allow: /stewardship

# Footnote:
# Built for a century that needs less applause and more alignment.
# The Ark: simulated, tokenized, alive. $ARK planned for utility/governance/access—no financial promises.