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The Ratchet Atlas

The apparatus, mapped from the source of truth: who the AI-safety/content-policy people are, the institutions they rotate through, who funds whom — and, on their own published words, the methods their texts exhibit.

Analysis of method, not a verdict. Every node is a public figure or institution in a public role; every edge and receipt carries a source. Method-markers describe how a text operates — never a claim about anyone's beliefs, character, or intent. Read the receipts; judge for yourself.
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institution person size = connections funding
How to read this: filled dots are institutions, hollow rings are people; size = degree. Click a node for its card (role, sources, public footprint, and any context-verified method receipts). Funding flows highlights money from the grantmakers (Open Phil, Schmidt, SFF) into the evaluators they fund. Drag to rearrange; wheel zooms; drag the background to pan. Filter by sector.

The map above is the apparatus, drawn from the canonical dataset rather than hand-curated — so it stays in sync as people rotate. Hollow rings are people; filled dots are institutions; size is how connected a node is. Color is sector: government, finance, IMF/World Bank, the CFR/Trilateral/WEF layer, think tanks, intelligence, defense, tech.

Click any node for its card: the documented role (positions only, sourced), public professional footprint, and — where we have the subject’s own published longform — the context-verified method receipts (the markers their text exhibits, with the verbatim quote and a link to where they said it). The receipts are the same ones the Tradecraft Lens produces; here they’re attached to the person who wrote them.

Hit Funding Flows to light up the money: the grantmakers (Open Philanthropy, Schmidt Sciences, the Survival and Flourishing Fund) into the evaluators and governance shops they bankroll — the financial spine under the “independent” safety layer.

Where it appears in print: The Ratchet, Chapters 4 (“The Money”) and 6 (“The Club”). The book narrates the apparatus; this page is the live map.

This is analysis of method and the public record, held to a standard the subjects of analysis do not always extend: public, professional, sourced, and never a kit to locate or harass anyone. It makes no claim about anyone’s private beliefs — only about what their documented record and their own published words show.