A map of the 2026 biohacking landscape as a family of overlapping scenes, oriented toward three end-goals: (1) substrate independence / mind-uploading ("Friendship is Optimal"); (2) the author's "biopunk 2037" bioengineered-organs worldbuilding; (3) a real Nozick Experience Machine. The three turn out to be one project at different radii.
Built via iterated research loops: parallel scene research → synthesis → independent critique → gap-fix →
three goal-deepenings → an independent cross-model pass (every goal re-researched from scratch by
OpenAI gpt-5.5 via codex, then reconciled). See CLAUDE.md for the plan.
The interactive site (webapp/index.html) is framed around the reframe below: the ecosystem as a map
of gaps, with an AGI-this-decade vs slow-world toggle that re-weights the whole landscape.
research/14-ecosystem-gaps.md — the landscape as a mutable
ecosystem: where money clusters vs where the leverage is, and the Gap Register (what's missing,
what's needed, who could build it). Capital concentrates furthest from the goals; the decisive
bottlenecks are under-owned and cheap.research/13-agi-conditioned.md — conditioning on transformative
AGI this decade (P ≈ 20–45%), which the earlier analysis dodged. It flips the calculus: preservationresearch/00-landscape-map.md — the master map: every scene at a
glance, how they connect, the demonstrated-vs-hype ledger, the three goals.research/08-two-roadmaps.md — the analytical payoff: the paths to
FiO (P ≈ 1–5% this century, gated by science not compute), biopunk-2037 (organ-supply spine supported;
whole-body cultivation revised to ~3–10%), and the experience machine (Roadmaps A/B/C).research/12-cross-model-reconciliation.md — where
Claude and gpt-5.5 independently agree (high confidence) vs. diverge (flagged).research/10-fio-deepdive.md — the AI/alignment piece, Age of Em, 2024–26
connectomics, the identity fork, how to plug in.research/11-biopunk-deepdive.md — the vascularization & ectogenesis
walls, nerve reconnection, reprogramming reality, plug-in path.research/09-experience-machine.md — VR / BCI write-in /
wireheading / dream-engineering, and why a pure pleasure machine isn't the target.research/codex-independent/ — the raw independent gpt-5.5 reports.| # | Scene | Maturity headline |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Grinder / DIY body-mod | Small, aging, fracturing; only commercial chip layer scaled |
| 02 | Bay bio startups (organ sacs + reprogramming + regenerative) | Xeno/bioengineered organs real & in humans; "age reversal" unproven |
| 03 | BCI / Neuralink | Real for restoring function; not an uploading path (~7 OOM gap) |
| 04 | WBE / uploading / brain preservation | Fly + mouse-mm³ connectomes done; human ~1M× away; bottleneck = data + unsolved science |
| 05 | Trans / transhumanism (morphological freedom) | DIY HRT = the most mature present-day body-hacking practice |
| 06 | Mainstream longevity / quantified self | Best evidence (exercise/sleep) is free; revenue is in the weakest-evidence layer |
| 07 | Community / culture / ideology | One ideological family, fragmented; re-merges at Lighthaven / Próspera |
_critique.md holds the independent red-team pass + resolution log.
This is AI-compiled from web sources, AI fact-checked (an independent critique pass + an independent second-model research pass), not personally verified by the author. The corpus is deliberately non-sycophantic — it flags hype and grift, and its residual bias (per the critique) runs skeptical, not optimistic. The clearest sign: two different models (Claude + gpt-5.5), researching independently, both lowered the author's own worldbuilding optimism on whole-body cultivation. Demonstrated vs. speculative is marked throughout; load-bearing numbers carry source URLs and confidence tiers.
../chip-implants/ · ../organ-sacs/ · ../longevity/ · ../peptides/ · /workspace/cryonics/ ·
/workspace/trans/ · /workspace/fiction/rationalist-fiction/
codex-independent/webapp/index.html) — bold Swiss-editorial redesign; ecosystem→gaps→two-worlds→goals
framing; AGI/slow-world toggle + gap filters; light/dark; all 22 docs rendered to HTML/workspace/overview/index.html ("The Biohacking Atlas", health section)