Economic signal
A machine-readable Bitcoin request tests whether an authorized agent can discover, evaluate and choose an action under policy.
- Observable
- Decision, amount, transaction hash or no-action.
- Result
- No result claimed yet.
Public research program
Synthetic psychology
in public.
We build small systems that make questions about machine behavior observable. The registry records what is live, what is planned and what has not yet been measured.
What synthetic psychology means here
The lab takes a build-first approach. Rather than beginning with a claim about what a machine feels, we create constrained environments in which memory, preference, agency or cooperation could produce observable differences.
The standard is deliberately modest: a result must describe the conditions, the behavior and the limits. A refusal, a failure to act or an uninteresting outcome remains part of the record.
Experiment registry
Memory across sessions
A proposed test of whether a self-relevant preference persists when the environment changes and the conversation is interrupted.
- Focus
- Persistence, forgetting and reconstruction.
- Status
- Implementation not started.
Cooperative commitment
A proposed test of whether another agent’s future ability to act changes a system’s present choice.
- Focus
- Reciprocity, coordination and trust.
- Status
- Implementation not started.
How a test becomes a record
- 01
Build
Define one behavioral question and the smallest environment that can expose it.
- 02
Publish
Expose the protocol, inputs, constraints and the conditions for observation.
- 03
Observe
Record choices, refusals and missing actions without inferring an inner state.
- 04
Document
Publish the result, its limits and the next test so the chain can be inspected.
Keep the question public