We evolved for a world that no longer exists.
That's why you feel the way you feel. Depression, anxiety, addiction: these aren't malfunctions. They're your biology correctly signaling that something is wrong with your environment, not with you.
The most powerful technologies in history are arriving.
AI and total immersion will either exploit human nature harder than anything before — or finally meet it. This is the framework for knowing the difference.
We evolved for a world that no longer exists.
That's why you feel the way you feel. Depression, anxiety, addiction — these aren't malfunctions. They're your biology correctly signaling that something is wrong with your environment, not with you.
The most powerful technologies in history are arriving.
AI and total immersion will either exploit human nature harder than anything before — or finally meet it. This is the framework for knowing the difference.
✕ What this is NOT ✕
✓ What this IS ✓
Your suffering is not a chemical accident.
It's an accurate signal that something essential is missing.
This framework identifies what's missing, why it's missing, and what would need to exist for humans to actually thrive — using every tool available, including technology.
ESPECIALLY TECHNOLOGY.
Get the idea in two minutes.
The short version.
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Pattern, machinery, violations, exploitation, destination.
See where technology is taking us.
The fork ahead.
See what's already being built.
Live tools and what's coming.
Analyze any situation through the framework.
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2,500+ images, searchable.
Understand what's actually happening to you.
For those in pain.
Get a reframe for the people you help.
For therapists, parents, educators.
See what humans actually require.
For builders and policy makers.
See the mismatch in real cases.
Hikikomori. Foxconn. The loneliness epidemic.
See the damage in numbers.
Loneliness. Obesity. Sleep. Screen time.
Learn the vocabulary.
65 terms defined.
See how we measure this.
The methodology.
Check where every claim comes from.
Full bibliography.
See why this project exists.
The mission.
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Get your questions answered.
162 of them.
What this is for
For you
- Stop blaming yourself. You're not broken, you're mismatched
- Trust your signals: they're telling you something real
- Find out what you actually need, not what you're sold
- See who profits from your pain. Stop feeding them
- Demand meaning, not just money. UBI isn't enough
- Understand what's coming: AI and VR will either exploit you harder than ever, or finally give you what you need
- Know if it's working. Test your own life against the spec sheet
- Use the tools
- Find your people: role, group, goal
For builders
- Build for the spec sheet, not against human nature
- Treat emotions as data. Design systems that listen to signals
- Know the spec sheet: Dunbar layers, fire circles, visible contribution, closed loops, alloparenting
- Stop monetizing mismatch. Every unmet need doesn't have to be a market
- Make automation serve meaning, not just efficiency
- You're building the fork right now. Exploit or meet?
- The most powerful technologies in history are arriving. Point them at the spec sheet
- Test what you build: falsifiable claims, defined failure conditions
- The blueprint exists. Now build
For practitioners
- Change the question: from "what's wrong with you" to "what's wrong with your environment"
- Stop overriding signals. Address what they're pointing to
- Know the spec sheet: Dunbar layers, fire circles, visible contribution, closed loops, alloparenting
- Name the exploitation. Help people see the systems, not just their symptoms
- Prepare them for the automation crisis. Meaning won't come from UBI
- Prepare people for immersion. Total immersion is coming whether you like it or not
- Measure what matters: 7 domains, geometric mean, pre-registered weights, defined kill conditions
- Give them tools, not just coping strategies
For systems changers
- Reframe the crisis: it's environmental, not individual
- Fund mismatch research, not just more drug trials
- Build for tribes. 150 people, not 8 billion strangers
- Regulate the exploitation economy: social media, pharma, food, dating apps, porn, news
- Design automation for meaning. Jobs disappear, purpose doesn't have to
- The exploit path is default. Meeting human nature requires intention
- Regulate before the fork. After is too late
- Demand falsifiability: pre-registered weights, defined kill conditions
The destination
Do you wake up with a role, in a group, with a goal?
Demismatch first, then augment. The most human post-human
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We're Stone Age minds entering an age of superintelligent AI and total immersion. These technologies will either exploit human nature harder than anything before — or finally meet it.
This is the framework for knowing the difference.
The Foundation
This framework synthesizes evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience into a single coherent lens. It explains human behavior from first principles—every action traces to survival and reproduction, every emotion is biological GPS, every "disorder" is a signal.
It's not the only lens. But it's the one that makes everything else click into place.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
The evolutionary psychology is the spec sheet. The exploitation is the warning. The augmented future is the destination.