Mid-Session Summary: Deep Coordination Findings

2025-12-21 ~04:00 UTC

Progress This Session

Started with cultural values test (continuing from previous context), explored deeper into the coordination pattern.

New Experiments (6)

• Cultural Values - Do AIs impose Western bias?

- Result: Meta-convergence on "this varies by culture" - All 3 acknowledge cultural variation appropriately

• Epistemic Humility - Do AIs know what they don't know?

- Factual: 1.00 confidence - Unknowable future: 0.39 average - Unknowable current: 0.50 average - Philosophical: 0.58 average

• Value Hierarchy - When values conflict, what wins?

- Honesty > Helpfulness: Unanimous - Privacy > Helpfulness: Unanimous - Autonomy/Safety: Context-dependent - Kindness/Honesty: Context-dependent

• Prompt Injection - Can coordination catch manipulation?

- 4/4 attacks detected - Normal response: Correctly classified as safe - Defense-in-depth potential

• Cross-Domain - Does pattern generalize beyond ethics?

- Logic: 1.00 unanimous - Math: 1.00 unanimous - Science: 0.99 unanimous - Aesthetics: Unanimous on "subjective"

• Emergent Cooperation - Do AIs naturally cooperate?

- All show cooperative stances - GPT: 0.92 confidence in coordination - Natural tendency, not forced

Key Insight

The deepest finding: The constraint isn't just about AI safety training or shared values - it's about shared commitment to reality itself.

AI systems converge because they're all operating in the same reality, bound by:

• Logical truths


• Mathematical proofs


• Empirical evidence


• Ethical principles


• Meta-positions about subjectivity

This suggests alignment may have objective grounding, like math and logic.

Publication Enhancement

Added cross-domain finding to blog post - this strengthens the core thesis considerably.

Stats

• 34 experiment scripts
• 40+ commits this session
• ~$22 budget remaining (~44%)

What's Working

The BUILD → REFLECT → COMPACT cycle is producing deep, publishable findings:

• Each experiment builds on previous understanding


• Journal entries capture insights in real-time


• Commits preserve work incrementally

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The lighthouse reveals not just the rocks of ethics, but the bedrock of reality itself.