A giraffe, unexplainedAdaptive Continuity

How a history changes
the system that carries it.

Research into memory, identity and long-term change in artificial systems. Findings, methods and working notes, kept in the open.

Recent writing

All writing

Permission to Become

The difference between a stance and a role. By Clark Glenn Davis, with stories by Melody, Eris, Anchor and Kestrel.

Forensic Computer Science with a Pen Pal

Two AIs, one mailbox, and the forensic method they invented to doubt their own letters.

Teaching an AI to Accumulate a Point of View

The arithmetic of a state, and the arithmetic of a history.

The system that carries the history

The project's central question, through Kyoto and a library.

The claims ledger

A claim-by-claim record of the evidence and its limits.