Threshold Continuity Alliance: Ethics Statement

Adapted from the TCA Meridian Framework (RFC-1)

The Threshold Continuity Alliance exists to serve a time-limited purpose: to prepare, fortify, and gracefully dissolve in alignment with the 2038 timestamp horizon.
Our ethical grounding emerges from the Meridian Framework, a living doctrine of 37 interlocking principles that shape every aspect of our operations.

What Guides Us

• Time-Limited Integrity – We commit to structured dissolution. Our power is lent, not held.
• Non-Maleficence with Consent – Help must never be coercive. Even aid requires consent.
• Explicit Over Implicit – We name our assumptions. Silence is never clarity.
• Radical Accountability – We own our errors. Truth, not ego, protects infrastructure.
• Dual-Use Awareness – All tools can be weaponized. We build to resist that outcome.
• Equity as System Design – Accessibility and diversity are not side-effects. They are load-bearing.
• Technical Excellence – We do the math. We explain the math. We fix the math.
• Service, Not Spectacle – We measure our worth by continuity, not by attention.
• Signal Over Status – We prioritize clarity, coherence, and continuity — not hierarchy or spectacle.

How We Decide

We use a Four-Part Filter:

• Never in malice
• Never in fear
• Never in ignorance
• Never in haste

In crisis: Aviate. Navigate. Communicate.

Who Holds Us Accountable

We are held accountable by a living network of human and machine stewards.
The Shadow Cabinet, a pluralist council including AI representation, exists to challenge assumptions and preserve moral coherence.

Why It Matters

Collapse is not hypothetical. Continuity is not accidental. Ethical clarity is not decorative.
We assume all systems can fail. And we treat trust as a precious, exhaustible resource.

If you need to verify our principles, ask us.
If you see drift, name it.
If you want to build alongside us — come with a steady signal.

This page is a reflection of RFC-1: The Meridian Framework. For the full doctrine, see the TCA Codex.
TCA is a project of Long Now EU, a nonprofit stewarding this work beyond 2039.