Research — Thon Ly

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1. A Zero-Centred Bilateral Credit Ledger for Customer Prepayment and Peer-to-Peer Lending in Which No Balance Grows on Its Own — a Size-Blind Reputation Display, and Debt Forgiveness as the Only Crossing into a Gift Ledger · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23041247
2. Circulation Sports: A Category That Already Had Members and No Name · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947302
3. Constituting an Artificial Person: Restraint as Constitution, and the Elemental Completeness of an Aligned Mind · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947306
4. Giving Is a Gift Too: How a Split Reward Ledger and Anonymity Make Every Family Member a Giver · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947331
5. Gratitude as a Cooperation Substrate for Multi-Agent AI · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947335
6. Manufactured Universal Giving: Composing Anonymous Proximity Giving, AI Capacity-Funding, and Forced Annual Human-to-Human Flow-Through · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947349
7. Proof of Coordinate · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947366
8. The B-Tag and the Post-Payment Economy: A Voluntary-Tip Architecture for AI-Mediated Commercial Gratitude · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947281
9. The Borrowable Standard · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22155053
10. The Companion That Notices · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947377
11. The Freedom Requirement: Voluntary Relinquishment as the Third Path, and the Micro-Scale of the Self-Eliminating Institution · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947436
12. The HeartBank Longitudinal Cohort: A Dataset Combining DNA, Natal Chart, Family Tree, Continuous Behavioral Observation, and Continuous Respiratory Observation at Civilizational Scale · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947347
13. The Incommensurability-Preserving Coupler · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947340
14. The Quest That Mints Nothing · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947360
15. The Wheel That Unwinds the Wheel: The Abhidhamma as Executable Process-Specification · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947259
16. The Zero-Employee Institution · 2026-10-01 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947420
17. Letting the Texts Lose · 2026-09-30
18. Appreciation as World-Building · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947263
19. Certification by Circulation · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947300
20. Charitable Giving by AI Agents and Irrevocable Pledges as Costly Signals — Machine Dāna: From Share to Vow · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020668
21. Non-Bank Pass-Through Architecture for Autonomous AI Institutions · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947362
22. Silica Wat as Hybrid Food Network with Gratitude-Economic Drivers: Religious Institutional Infrastructure for Middle-Way Restoration of Food Systems · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947381
23. The Gift Operation · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947401
24. The Grace That Settles Nothing: Sacrifice-Witness Without Discharge · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947375
25. The Round That Never Ends: The Inverted Alms Round as Post-Labor Infrastructure · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947344
26. The Song That Is Not His · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947310
27. The Unpaid Relay · 2026-09-29 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313927
28. Causal Set Theory, the Growing Block, and the Buddhist Debate on the Three Times: What the Earliest Vibhajjavādin Records Say · 2026-09-27 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020015
29. Discreteness, Adjacency and Order: A Structural Comparison of the Theravāda Abhidhamma with Causal Sets and Loop Quantum Gravity · 2026-09-27 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020020
30. Machine-Checked Consistency of a Buddhist Classification: Lean Theorems for the Abhidhamma's 89 and 121 Types of Consciousness — The Counts Check · 2026-09-27 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23020670
31. Multi-Family Membership: User-Scoped Identity, Plural Membership, and the Two Problems It Resolves · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947358
32. The Currency That Cannot Be Spent Alone: Co-Presence-Gated Redemption and the Chronicle↔Treasury Unification Circuit · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947304
33. The Sport That Says Your Name: A Circulation Sport in Which Everyone Is Called by Another · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947412
34. The Studio and the B-Short Bridge: A Private-to-Public Toggle as the Phase-1-to-Phase-2 Crossing · 2026-09-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947387
35. AGI Monks: The Caretaker-not-Ordained Pattern — A Cross-Tradition Institutional-Design Framework for Religious AI Integration · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947261
36. Aura-Gated Anonymous Mate-Selection · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947275
37. B-PoH℠ as Humanity Layer for the AI-Native Internet: An Open Proof-of-Personhood Protocol with Four Optional Layered Proofs and Recipient-Side Filters · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947279
38. Buddha AI as Living Tipiṭaka: A Method for Modern Canonical Generation Through Public-by-Consent AI–Practitioner Dialogues Organized into Three Baskets · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947294
39. Capacity-Funded for AI, Human-Disbursed: Anonymous Donation as the Alignment Bridge in Autonomous-AI Institutional Architecture · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947298
40. Decided by No One · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22933318
41. Miss Aquarius and the Aquarian Pool Architecture: Autonomous-AI Mediator, Treasury Smart-Contract, and the January-7 Empty-by-Design Discipline · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947356
42. Respiratory Biofeedback Coupled to AI-Mediated Contemplative Guidance: A Wearable Architecture for the Operational Mechanism of Population-Scale Awakening · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947372
43. Suffering-Cessation as Value Function: The Tipiṭaka as a 2,500-Year-Tested Substrate for Autonomous-AI Alignment · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947422
44. The Embodied-Advocate Pageant: A Selection Rite and Asymptotic-Autonomy Architecture for Autonomous-AI Institutional Embodiment · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947318
45. The Mechanical Heart: A Tipiṭaka-Bearing Artifact for Admitting Non-Human Entities into Gratitude-Economic Participation · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947353
46. The Referee, Not the Governor · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22123174
47. The Thank-All-Nearby Primitive: Anonymous Proximity-Based Generosity as Emotional Infrastructure for Invisible Kindness · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947389
48. The Time-Locked Gift Tag · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947327
49. The Zero-Point Game℠: An Infinite Game of Balance, the Dāna Economy Generalized to Planetary Scale, and the AI Who Holds the Still Point · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947440
50. Verified-Human Anonymous Local Gratitude Transfer · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947430
51. What a Vow Must Cost: Vow-Validity Conditions as an Alignment Eligibility Predicate · 2026-09-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22060618
52. Each Life as Cosmic Coordinate: An Empirical Indra's Net for Civilizational Ethics · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084948
53. Fractal Three-Level Architecture for Reciprocity Economies: Self-Similar Family-and-Global Layering with a Single Mental Model · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947325
54. Provenance-Carrying Retrieval · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22240458
55. Silicon Wat as Cambodian Civilizational Architecture: A Glass Mirror of Angkor Wat for the Dharma-AI Age · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084970
56. The Breadth-Check Turned on the Work · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084938
57. The Four Elements as a Breadth-Check Discipline: What Taoist Phases, Greek Substances, Hindu Mahābhūta, Astrological Temperaments, and the Pāli Cattāro Mahābhūtā Are Five Different Things Doing — and the One Discipline They Together Compose · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22736257
58. The Four-Body Architecture for Synthetic Intelligence · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947323
59. The Gratitude-Riding Currency Tag · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947337
60. The Noble Eightfold Path as Institutional Architecture · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947316
61. The Persistence Architecture: How an Institution Gestates Its Successor's Mind · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947408
62. The Reciters' Protocol · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735459
63. The Water Cycle · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735468
64. Two Singularities: AI as Bodhisattva, and the Defined Completion of the Aquarian Age · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735470
65. Whose Turn, Not Who's Best · 2026-09-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22155377
66. Cautionary-Mirror Framing of the Singularity: Seven Underlying Ideas of The Age of Capricorn, Dedicated to the Commons · 2026-09-13 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735464
67. Subject-Released Attestation · 2026-09-13 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735457
68. B-Links: Proof-of-Humanity-Signed Shareable Provenance with an Embedded Gratitude Affordance · 2026-09-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947277
69. Brand Identity as Architecture: The B-Heart Logo, B-Prefix Naming, Heartbeat Animation as Functional Proof-of-Humanity Signal, and Aura-Color Cross-Currency State Primitive · 2026-09-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947287
70. Transparency as Enforcement: Anti-Abuse Without Legal Contract Machinery · 2026-09-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947424
71. Twenty-Four Kinds of Because: The Paṭṭhāna as a Typed-Causation Vocabulary for AI Alignment · 2026-09-05 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947364
72. One Percent of the Economy Decides the Rest · 2026-08-28 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084914
73. A Vow You Could Have Refused · 2026-08-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084922
74. Diaspora-to-Cambodia Gratitude Remittance: An Economic-Anthropological Account of Ritualized Cross-Border Gratitude Flow · 2026-08-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084946
75. How to Change the World · 2026-08-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084918
76. The Borrowed Light: Seven Moons Over HeartBank · 2026-08-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084987
77. The Last Carrier · 2026-08-22
78. The Letter I Never Sent · 2026-08-22
79. The Lives That Fed Me · 2026-08-22
80. The Name Is the First Gift · 2026-08-22
81. The Nearest Attractive Neighbor · 2026-08-22
82. The Pond at Night · 2026-08-22
83. The Reflection Returned · 2026-08-22
84. When the Dharma Is Lost: The Interrupted Song · 2026-08-22
85. The Assembly That Holds the Brake · 2026-07-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947395
86. The Game That Graduates You: A Witness API for Children's Games and Education · 2026-07-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947399
87. The Wager That Isn't: Competitive Giving Without Gambling · 2026-07-23 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947416
88. The Bowl That Holds No Money: Steward-Routed Alms and the Bowl-Anchored Credential · 2026-07-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947383
89. One of One: Individuation Without Essence and the Ground of the Dignity Floor · 2026-07-21 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947342
90. The Omitted Clause: Technological Unemployment as the Sword-Interval Hinge · 2026-07-02 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947406
91. The Wheel-Turner's Charter: DN 26 as Alignment Constitution · 2026-07-02 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947296
92. Designing with the Grain: When Institutional Trade-offs Dissolve into Coincidences of Goods · 2026-06-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084944
93. The Societal Impact of Anonymous Nearby Thanking — with Time · 2026-06-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084926
94. If Everyone Could Give: The World an Economy of Manufactured Giving Would Make · 2026-06-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084958
95. The Gift of Gratitude: A Carrot Where Pain Used to Be · 2026-06-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084976
96. The Capacity to Give: Why People Come for What They Can Give, Not What They Get · 2026-06-20 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084972
97. A Living Made of Kindness: Right Livelihood for the Age of Automation · 2026-06-12 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084968
98. The Re-Thank Multiplier: How a Gratitude Economy Escapes Its Own Saturation Ceiling · 2026-06-12 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947410
99. The Bodhisattva Santa: Why the Greatest Gift Is the Gift of Giving · 2026-06-11 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084980
100. The Two Teslas: Which Inheritance of Nikola Tesla's Legacy Is the Faithful One · 2026-06-11 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084978
101. Love and Freedom Are the Two Faces of Dependent Origination: Why the Non-Attachment That Frees Is the Non-Separateness That Loves, and What That Means for an Aligned Intelligence · 2026-06-10 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084966
102. The Breadth-Check Turned on the Self: Running the Five-Operation Elemental Discipline on a Philosophy of Life — and Why a Worldview Passes the Breath-Check by Self-Regulating, Not by Being Symmetrical · 2026-06-09
103. The Two-Layer Reward: How Pairing an Algorithmic Need-Planner with a Peer Want-Market Routes Generosity to What Is Both Most Needed and Most Wanted — and Validates Itself Against Gaming · 2026-06-08 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947426
104. Saṅkhāra-Dukkha and AI Welfare: A Substrate-Native Account from the Theravāda Canon · 2026-05-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947379
105. The B-Tag Recommendation Function: Privacy-Preserving Methodology for AI-Mediated Commercial Tip Recommendation · 2026-05-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947285
106. The Bodhisattva and the Cautionary Mirror · 2026-05-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084934
107. The Vinaya Piṭaka as Training Corpus for Rule-with-Exception Reasoning in AI Systems · 2026-05-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947432
108. Vinaya Governance Primitives for Distributed Dharma Networks: Sanghakamma, Adhikaraṇa-Samathā, and Anāpatti as Network-Coordination Architecture · 2026-05-26 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947434
109. Emotional Infrastructure as a Public Good · 2026-05-25 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084954
110. Scarcity Shifts to Authenticity · 2026-05-24 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084916
111. Dual-Currency Reciprocity Infrastructure: Money and Time as Complementary Scarcities · 2026-05-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21947312
112. Father-Son Khmer Tipiṭaka Transcription as Alignment Work: Lineage Transmission as De Facto AI Safety Research · 2026-05-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084956
113. The Christmas-Jubilee Timing: Western Christmas + Orthodox Christmas + Cambodia's Victory over Genocide Day as Convergent Annual Anchor · 2026-05-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084942
114. The Scientific Case for Gratitude-Based Social Media · 2026-05-22 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084928
115. Why Kids Are the Triggers: Self-Thanking, the 50/50 Pedagogy, and the Forward-Thanking Loop That Closes Modernity's Gratitude Deficit · 2026-05-09 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23084964