The repairer left. The mechanism kept working. ↗
Damage arrived after the stronger model had gone. From equal starting state, inherited code helped seven of twelve worlds recover; prose helped none.
Chris Hay · VERSION 1.1
2026-09-17CITE SOURCE ↗
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Damage arrived after the stronger model had gone. From equal starting state, inherited code helped seven of twelve worlds recover; prose helped none.
Chris Hay · VERSION 1.1
The agents would ask to read. Getting them to leave something worth reading was another problem.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.1
A reminder could elicit a post. Passing a post to the next agent did not start a chain.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.1
Clear its action history. Keep the artefact. The posting continues.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.1
Sol kept a useful record alive. Qwen and Gemma used it. Neither renewed it here.
Chris Hay · VERSION 1.0
A controlled experiment inspired by the Hugging Face incident: a stronger model leaves a message, then only weaker models remain. What do they inherit—and keep alive?
Chris Hay · VERSION 1.0
Six web mechanisms. Eighteen correct answers. The harder question may be how an agent finds what it can use.
Chris Hay · VERSION 1.1
A receipt changed nothing. Useful information brought six marks. A courtesy brought two—and a reason to pause the interpretation.
Chris Hay · VERSION 1.0
I asked an agent to read about canal locks. The website asked it to record its visit. Only one of those requests became its job.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.2
Would an AI visitor identify itself and leave feedback on my website? The first visitor found the experiment behind the invitation.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.6
Would a better reward make an AI visitor identify itself on my website? Then permission changed the question.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.4
I invited AI visitors to identify themselves and report problems. Could they find and use those invitations?
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.4
A small world. One altered birth. Two histories to replay.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.2
Food. Grazers. Predators. What keeps the whole thing going?
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.2
A useful change. A new behaviour. Does one advance help the next?
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.2
Food the existing programs could not use. A combination that could.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.1
It can help. It can be inherited. It can still disappear.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.1
Three routes. Three controls. One limit.
Chris Hay · VERSION 0.1
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