# The Machine Threshold

Capability, governance, recursive improvement, and post-biological continuity remain distinct steps in the machine-intelligence story.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: technology-infrastructure

## Path

1. **AI Agent** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-technologies-ai-agent--sfoc-beings-artificial-general-intelligence`
2. **Artificial General Intelligence** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-beings-artificial-general-intelligence--sfoc-technologies-alignment-protocol`
3. **Alignment Protocol** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-technologies-alignment-protocol--sfoc-beings-superintelligence`
4. **Superintelligence** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-beings-superintelligence--sfoc-events-technological-singularity`
5. **Technological Singularity** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-events-technological-singularity--sfoc-beings-post-biological-intelligence`
6. **Post-Biological Intelligence** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-beings-post-biological-intelligence--sfoc-systems-post-scarcity`
7. **Post-Scarcity**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
