Metis (metered intelligence)
A working definition written for this wiki from the notes · first appears in The Architectures of Intelligence and Garden Empires ()
Chor Pharn Lee's unit in Garden Empires: "standardized units of cognitive capacity that can be deployed, traded, and optimized," minted as tokens by intelligence pools (Chinese provinces for sky-river management, the Gulf for desalination, US "pods" for geoengineering) and exchanged against digital currencies and the digital twins of forests and oceans. The same essay then invokes tacit knowledge (Greek mētis) to explain why the "gosplan dream" stays incomputable — so the term names both computable intelligence-as-resource and the incomputable remainder. Compare Planetary Computation Unit; Emerald Coin and resource credits elsewhere in the collection.
Glossary generated 2026-09-09 · may be out of date