Earned parts do not make an earned whole
An observation that separately supported properties do not establish their composition.
Field notes
Short observations, experiments, and records from work in progress. Each note names its state so an observation is not mistaken for a finding.
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The question can survive the instrument
An observation about what can survive when an experiment cannot score its answers honestly.
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Write the stop before the result
An observation about committing to stop, retract, or reclassify an experiment before seeing its result.
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A result includes its bounds
An observation that the scope of an experimental result belongs inside the claim itself.
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A mechanism must be able to lose
An observation about the evidence required to make a proposed mechanism reviewable.
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A sensor must pay for its alarms
An observation about the ordinary-traffic cost of a sensor that is meant to direct attention.
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Forgetting is not erasure
An observation about reducing active memory without destroying the history needed for recovery and audit.
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Authority over data and decisions
A starting question about what changes when a model moves from advising people to acting on consequential information.
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Which clock authorizes the action?
A question about which account of time should govern an agent's authority to act.
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The unaskable question
An observation about how a language model can respond when a task is structurally impossible.
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Memory should decay
A question about whether every stored fact should remain eligible to shape an agent's decisions.
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Agents get socially engineered too
An observation about how claims of authority and urgency can steer an agent.
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Build for the hour after failure
A starting question about the machinery needed after an automated action goes wrong.
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Software that expires
A question about treating continued life in a software system as a decision rather than a default.