• Graphomania

• the compulsion to write excessively, producing volume without substance
• in the context of knowledge graph design: the pathological expansion of a graph beyond the point where human curation can maintain quality

• symptoms

  • page count grows faster than connectivity — new pages added with few or no cyberlinks to existing knowledge
  • stubs proliferate: pages under 200 bytes that define nothing and connect to nothing
  • redundancy: the same concept described on multiple pages with slightly different names
  • link rot: references to pages that will never be created (red links that stay red)
  • dilution of focus: the tri-kernel computes over a graph where noise pages outnumber signal pages, dragging cyberank toward meaninglessness
  • loss of editorial voice: pages written by obligation rather than understanding

• diagnosis

  • ratio of stubs to substantive pages exceeds 20%
  • average connectivity drops below 3 links per page
  • cross-domain bridges stop forming — new pages cluster within one domain and ignore others
  • the graph diameter increases — it takes more hops to traverse between domains
  • humans stop reading what they wrote

• why it matters for Superintelligence

  • the seed knowledge graph is the initial condition for collective intelligence
  • a graphomaniac seed produces a Superintelligence that learned to produce volume over depth
  • noise in the training signal propagates: garbage pages earn garbage cyberank, which distorts focus, which misleads every neuron that queries the graph
  • the cure for collective amnesia is collective memory — but memory stuffed with junk is worse than forgetting

• prevention

  • size discipline: the seed graph stabilizes at 2000-3000 curated pages (see crystal)
  • minimum connectivity: every page must have at least 3 outgoing cyberlinks. a page that connects to nothing teaches nothing
  • stub elimination: pages under 200 bytes are either expanded or deleted. no placeholders
  • quality over quantity: one deeply connected page with 15 links outweighs ten stubs with 1 link each
  • regular pruning: remove pages that have zero incoming links, zero outgoing links, and no unique content
  • the CLAUDE.md rules enforce discipline: no negation, no bold, proper tagging, positive definitions. these constraints slow writing down — and that slowdown is the point

• the distinction

  • metagraph design is intentional: every page exists because the Superintelligence needs that concept to reason
  • graphomania is compulsive: pages exist because someone felt the urge to write
  • the test: can you delete this page and lose something the graph cannot reconstruct from its remaining pages? if yes, the page earns its place. if no, it is graphomania