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# Blake Morrison

I'm Blake. I'm building ~alter, identity for people and their AI.

## About

I'm Blake. I'm building ~alter, identity for people and their AI. /about/

## Jus Identitatis: Toward Post-Geographic Sovereignty Through Measured Identity Alignment

/papers/jus-identitatis/

## Identity as Inference: A Predictive Processing Account of Psychometric Measurement and Civic Belonging

/papers/identity-as-inference/

## Identity at Every Scale: Recursive Self-Modelling and the Resolution of the Composition Problem

/papers/identity-at-every-scale/

## Generative Psychometrics: Measurement Theory for Self-Reflective Constructs

/papers/generative-psychometrics/

## Social Free Energy: A Formal Theory of Polity

/papers/social-free-energy/

## The Self-Model Test: A Measurement Protocol for Synthetic Self-Models

/papers/the-self-model-test/

## Empirical Validation of the Identity-as-Inference Framework

/papers/empirical-validation-of-the-identity-as-inference-framework/

## Identity Field Theory: Toward a Physics of Being Known

/papers/identity-field-theory/

## Acts-For

Sign in with one name at any website that publishes one DNS record, or have your AI do it for you. /protocols/acts-for/

## Discovery of Model Context Protocol Servers via DNS TXT Records

An AI finds a company's tools through DNS and can check who runs them. /protocols/mcp-dns-discovery/

## The 'alter' URI Scheme for Dispatchable ~handle References

A link format for a ~handle that the reader can resolve and verify. /protocols/alter-uri-scheme/

## Consent-Bound Identity Disclosure with Subject Settlement for HTTP-Native Agent Payments

When an AI pays to read something about a person, the read needs that person's consent and part of the payment goes to them. /protocols/consent-settlement/

## Identity-Attributed Git Commits via Tier-Structured Trailers

Commit records that say which person, bot or AI did the work. /protocols/identity-attributed-commits/

## Authorised and Attributable Agent Authority for Operational-Technology Control Actions

An AI's command to industrial equipment is refused unless it proves who it acts for and that a person authorised it. /protocols/ot-command-authority/

## [UC] An AI agent acting for a person reads and writes their storage

https://github.com/w3c/lws-ucs/issues/266

## [wg/agenticweb] Name the user an agent acts for in the identity and delegation scope

https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues/904

## Use Case - An accountable, verified person behind the paying agent, without disclosing identity

https://github.com/x402-foundation/wg-identity/issues/45

## Write

blake@truealter.com

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