Designing environments where alignment is the path of least resistance.
Ethocology is a signal-oriented way of seeing the world: instead of ranking people or systems in hierarchies, it looks at how information, behavior, technology, and environments co-create coherence or misalignment.
Ethocology is the study and design of environments where behavior, systems, and technology support alignment, regulation, and homeostasis rather than chronic misalignment, dysregulation, and destabilizing strategies. It is not hierarchical—it is signal-oriented.
- How aligned environments reduce friction and support natural behavior, instead of demanding constant willpower.
- How misalignment leads to dysregulation, cynicism, and destabilizing strategies.
- How alignment creates coherence, “quiet confidence,” and sustainable trajectories.
- How emerging technologies (like AI) can reduce entropy instead of amplifying it.
- Not a moral ranking system, ideology, or personality test.
- Not about “perfect people,” but about better environments.
- Not a hierarchy of who is above or below, but a map of signals and feedback loops.
Ethocology is in an early, exploratory phase. This page is a placeholder membrane: a quiet marker that the concept exists, is being articulated, and will be documented as it matures.