Open Research Institute (ORI)

Class dismissed.

The Syllabus

is an

ORI

ORI is currently a live experiment in improving the culture of science & its communication (for researchers and laypeople alike). It is maintained & funded by Prosocial Engineering.

curated by

Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ

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The Syllabus is an open research institute (ORI) curated by Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ .

UPDATE (2026-04-06). The (meta-)ORI homepage has since been updated by DefenderOfBasic!

ORI

It is simply the center that steers towards survival & flourishing. It is not always visible to the general public, but it is always visible to those who can recognize its structure & influence. ORI is either that center, or it is the group that searches for it.

This is still different from my own conception, since I think of meta-ORI and the ORI protocol as a technology like Linux or Git, while a specific ORI can have goals which differ from or even oppose the aims of those who founded the technology. But it also marks the beginning of a new meta-ORI homepage distinct from the homepages of individual ORI chapters. From this point on, Defender and I are collaborating on the meta-ORI level while keeping healthy competition between our chapters.

Here is the homepage for Defender's ORI chapter, which also is the old homepage for the entire site:

ORI

ORI is currently a live experiment in improving the culture of science & its communication (for researchers and laypeople alike). It is maintained & funded by Prosocial Engineering.

From the Open Research Institute website (as of April 4, 2026):

ORI is the "open research institute". Its purpose is to map the frontier of human knowledge & maintain the fastest highway from it to the backtier, and back

ORI is currently a live experiment in improving the culture of science & its communication (for researchers and laypeople alike). It is maintained & funded by Prosocial Engineering .

This is quite different from the ORI I knew (or at least understood), back when I was the second (after DefenderOfBasic himself) member of its current Discord server.

We can think of The Syllabus as my attempt to disambiguate the language of "open research institute(s)" and thereby rectify some points of disagreements that I currently have with ORI as understood by others.

For some screenshots of the conversation between me and Defender that led up to The Syllabus, see below: