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Mars

Building Mars — a seven-document set

A seven-document treatment of the question of large-scale Mars industrialisation. The set has six audience-targeted documents and a reference appendix. Each document is written for a different reader: capital allocators, policymakers, engineers, critics, general readers, ethicists, and analysts wanting the verifiable factual material. The set is cross-referenced; readers concerned about whether the project should proceed are pointed to the case against and the ethical analysis. The publication does not pick between the affirmative case and the structural critique. AI-generated, no human expert review.

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Author. Doug Scott is the architect of this work. He ran parallel conversations with the four AI tools — Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Grok (xAI), Gemini (Google) — and routed work between them by hand: pasting Claude's argument into ChatGPT for critique, taking ChatGPT's pushback to Grok for a different angle, feeding Gemini the resulting text and asking it to find what was missing. The cross-critique was a loop he routed manually. He held the publication's intent across every piece, chose the structure, and decided when the work was done. He is not a tax specialist, lawyer, accountant, or labour economist; he did not edit the prose, check citations against primary sources, or verify model math. No human expert with relevant domain expertise reviewed any of this work before publication.

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The rest of the project

The Longer Look is one of eight sites. The eight are one project about how humanity is in relation to the machines now being built — who is making them, what relationship people are already in with them, and what is being lost and held as that relationship changes. The IHT analysis on this site is the entry point chosen for a specific cohort. The rest of the project is in the voices the policy register cannot carry. Why these sites exist as a group →

The trilogy · April 2026

  • If This Road The wake. A quiet walk for any reader.
  • orphans.ai The diagnosis. The oral-tradition layer of human knowledge missing from AI training.
  • theheld.ai The disposition. The working relationship between a person and a machine.

The bear books

  • The Bear Was Right A small picture book. For a child, and the bear beside them.
  • The Bear Loved A bear's month. Twenty-three days in the life of a bear who loves things.
  • The ADHD Bear Fur on end. A small companion for bears whose fur is on end.

And the names

  • The Many Builders The names. A page for every individual researcher, engineer, and contributor whose work has gone into modern AI.
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