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Bibliography — Mobius Systems: A Macro-Scale Machine Learning Architecture for Civic Intelligence

To be expanded as academic sources are added.

Machine Learning & AI

  • Russell, S. & Norvig, P. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. (4th ed., 2020)
  • Sutton, R. S. & Barto, A. G. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. (2nd ed., 2018)
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind: Multi-model orchestration papers (2023–2025)
  • Chain-of-thought reasoning: Wei et al. "Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models" (2022)

Multi-Agent Systems & Consensus

  • Tampuu, A. et al. "Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Extremely Sparse Rewards" (2017)
  • Foerster, J. et al. "Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients" (2018)
  • Debate models: Irving et al. "AI Safety via Debate" (2018)

Civic Technology & Digital Democracy

  • Ostrom, E. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. (1990)
  • Arrow, K. J. Social Choice and Individual Values. (2nd ed., 1963)
  • Tang, A. "Digital Democracy" — Taiwan's vTaiwan and Polis platforms
  • Weyl, E. G. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. (2018)

Collective Intelligence & Emergence

  • Kleinberg, J. et al. "Collective Intelligence and Machine Learning" (2015)
  • Malone, T. W. & Bernstein, M. S. (eds.) Handbook of Collective Intelligence. (2015)
  • Emergent reasoning: Minsky, M. The Society of Mind. (1986)

Cryptography & Distributed Systems

  • Merkle, R. C. "A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function" (1988)
  • Nakamoto, S. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" (2008)
  • Buterin, V. "Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform" (2014)

Philosophy of Intelligence & Emergence

  • Hofstadter, D. R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (1979)
  • Dennett, D. C. Consciousness Explained. (1991)
  • Chalmers, D. J. "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" (2010)

AI Safety & Alignment

  • Bostrom, N. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. (2014)
  • Christiano, P. et al. "Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling" (2018)
  • Constitutional AI: Anthropic "Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback" (2022)

Governance & Institutional Design

  • North, D. C. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. (1990)
  • Acemoglu, D. & Robinson, J. A. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. (2012)
  • Ostrom, E. "Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems" (2010)

This bibliography will be expanded with full citations, DOIs, and additional sources as the paper evolves.

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