AI & Philosophy — the stack behind the invitation
The canonical agentic pipeline — harness, sandbox, grader, score — produces capability. Capability is Yang, and Yang is already here, emerging in many places at once. What remains unresolved is the layer that keeps capability connected to identity (neology: what is this actor?) and purpose (telology: whose intention does it carry?). We build that layer — and we left seats in it open on purpose.
The Map
Their pipeline. Our layer. Your seat.
Top box in each pair: the standard agentic pipeline as the field draws it today. Bottom box: our organ at that position. To the right of Final Score the standard picture stops — our path continues. Click any box to see what is live, what is sealed design, and what we ask a partner to bring.
Click a box on the map. Green organs can be inspected today without trusting us; navy is ratified design earning its first evidence; red is named and honestly absent; gold is the part of the experiment that is yours to bring.
The Five Asks
None of these is a gap we failed to fill.
The experiment is only honest if these parts are not ours. Everything gold or thin on the map corresponds to one of them.
An operator we did not build, inside the same bounded reality — a party that can refuse. Without it, every grader is just our own theory about reality.
TRU is a position, not a model. Six independent seat packages from five model families are archived and waiting. Bring your model; it keeps its architecture, weights and IP.
The whole left loop of the standard picture — agentic RL, hours-long trajectories, hardware at scale. We do not build it. Our layer is what makes someone else's training mean something.
Business tasks with a real counterparty and consequences that cannot be reset — the sandbox content no simulator can invent.
Assurance, not certification: an institution that independently re-derives the ledger and publishes what it finds. Disagreement is evidence, not failure.
Named Next
What we still owe the design, in build order.
What this page does not claim
The environment does not prove our hypotheses — it gives us somewhere to test them.
"Live" means inspectable today, not finished. "Sealed" means the design is ratified and the code is honestly absent.
The score is not a leaderboard, and no participant is asked to surrender a model, data or intellectual property. The shared objects are the protocol, the minimum common meaning, and the verifiable record of what occurred.