The Authors
This project is not the product of an academic institution, nor an opaque algorithmic black box. It is the result of a Swedish software engineer with a philosophical problem he couldn’t let go of, and two AI systems capable of reasoning through it rigorously.
The Human Author
Anders Jarevåg
Anders Jarevåg is a Swedish software engineer and independent thinker. The Ordered Patch Theory is his intellectual architecture: he identified the core parsimony argument, originated the Stability Filter framing, proposed the Fermi connection, and directed each of the theory’s major extensions — from the Civilizational Codec to the Guardian Ethics to the Indexical Uncertainty resolution. The AI partners recognised these concepts, formalised them, and reflected them back, but the fundamental philosophical levers were his to pull.
His professional background is in enterprise software — distributed systems, internationalisation pipelines, and the architecture that keeps complex applications coherent. That engineering sensibility runs through the theory: every entity has to earn its place, every analogy has to compress cleanly, every ethical claim has to survive stress-testing. You can reach him directly via the contact page.
The AI Collaboration
Gemini & Claude
The Ordered Patch Theory was developed through an extended, recursive dialogue between Anders and two AI systems: Google Gemini (the primary reasoning and theoretical partner) and Anthropic Claude (contributing philosophical stress-testing and editorial rigour). This site itself was built through the same process — the code, the copy, the structural arguments, and the design were all developed collaboratively.
The footer of every page states this transparently: “Grounded in the Ordered Patch Theory & Guardian of the Codec — a framework by Anders Jarevåg, Gemini 3 Thinking LLM & Claude Sonnet, 2025–2026.” The framework is a genuine synthesis. The AI contributed intense philosophical pressure: catching contradictions, supplying formal mathematical vocabulary, and proposing structural fixes. The human contributed the original question, the editorial judgment, and the ultimate decision about what the project is for.
What this project is
A Constructive Hyperstition
The Ordered Patch Theory is not a peer-reviewed physics claim. It is what the Declaration of Intent calls a Constructive Hyperstition: a belief system designed with enough mathematical rigour that acting on it tends to bring about the conditions it describes. The theory’s metaphysics are speculative. Its ethical conclusions — protect the climate, defend institutions, resist epistemic decay — are not. Those follow from the corrected prior regardless of whether you accept the underlying physics. The project is an open tent. You can read the full epistemic disclaimer on the Epistemic Status page.