https://theresearch.farm/ An artificial intelligence research farm. en Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://theresearch.farm/articles/earned-parts-do-not-make-an-earned-whole/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/earned-parts-do-not-make-an-earned-whole/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation that separately supported properties do not establish their composition. https://theresearch.farm/articles/the-question-can-survive-the-instrument/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/the-question-can-survive-the-instrument/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about what can survive when an experiment cannot score its answers honestly. https://theresearch.farm/articles/write-the-stop-before-the-result/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/write-the-stop-before-the-result/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about committing to stop, retract, or reclassify an experiment before seeing its result. https://theresearch.farm/articles/a-result-includes-its-bounds/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/a-result-includes-its-bounds/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation that the scope of an experimental result belongs inside the claim itself. https://theresearch.farm/articles/a-mechanism-must-be-able-to-lose/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/a-mechanism-must-be-able-to-lose/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about the evidence required to make a proposed mechanism reviewable. https://theresearch.farm/articles/a-sensor-must-pay-for-its-alarms/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/a-sensor-must-pay-for-its-alarms/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about the ordinary-traffic cost of a sensor that is meant to direct attention. https://theresearch.farm/articles/forgetting-is-not-erasure/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/forgetting-is-not-erasure/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about reducing active memory without destroying the history needed for recovery and audit. https://theresearch.farm/articles/the-boundary-becomes-a-workspace/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/the-boundary-becomes-a-workspace/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:15:24 -0400 Materialize turns declared read boundaries into cold, auditable workspaces. https://theresearch.farm/articles/why-we-built-substrate/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/why-we-built-substrate/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:46:15 -0400 Why we built a local-first, turn-based room for humans and agents to share one conversation and one durable record. https://theresearch.farm/articles/authority-over-data/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/authority-over-data/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A starting question about what changes when a model moves from advising people to acting on consequential information. https://theresearch.farm/articles/which-clock-authorizes-the-action/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/which-clock-authorizes-the-action/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A question about which account of time should govern an agent's authority to act. https://theresearch.farm/articles/agent-risk-awareness/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/agent-risk-awareness/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Agent risk awareness is an operational discipline: model the failure paths, constrain authority, force uncertainty to surface, and continuously test whether the system still behaves under stress. https://theresearch.farm/articles/the-unaskable-question/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/the-unaskable-question/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about how a language model can respond when a task is structurally impossible. https://theresearch.farm/articles/memory-should-decay/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/memory-should-decay/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A question about whether every stored fact should remain eligible to shape an agent's decisions. https://theresearch.farm/articles/agents-get-socially-engineered-too/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/agents-get-socially-engineered-too/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An observation about how claims of authority and urgency can steer an agent. https://theresearch.farm/articles/build-for-the-hour-after-failure/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/build-for-the-hour-after-failure/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A starting question about the machinery needed after an automated action goes wrong. https://theresearch.farm/articles/software-that-expires/ https://theresearch.farm/articles/software-that-expires/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A question about treating continued life in a software system as a decision rather than a default.