Everyone's welcome — researchers, developers, economists, founders, ethicists, skeptics. You don't need to write code to contribute; the highest-value thing you can do is think carefully and push back.
- 📄 Share research — post a paper/preprint in Discussions → Research & Papers (title, authors, year, link, and one line on why it matters). Or add it to the
research/reading list via a PR. - 🧪 Pose a thought experiment — Discussions → Thought Experiments. "What breaks if…", an incentive trap, an adversarial framing. No code required — just careful thinking.
- 🔬 Share an experiment — Discussions → Experiments. What you ran, what you found, how to reproduce. Refutations especially welcome.
- 💡 Propose or critique a design — Discussions → Ideas / RFC. Big protocol changes start here as an RFC before any code.
- ❓ Ask or answer — Discussions → Q&A.
- 🛠 Code lives in the ecosystem repos (
repid-engine,hyperdag-protocol,trustshell) — file issues/PRs there. This repo is for ideas.
Open a PR to research/README.md with, in the right section:
Title — Authors (Year). [link]. One sentence on why it matters here. Primary sources preferred; give a real, checkable citation (no "someone showed that…"). If it shaped how you think about trust, reputation, verification, or incentives in AI, it belongs.
The way we build is the thesis, so we hold the commons to it:
- Evidence over claims. A number without its source, corpus size, and confidence interval is an opinion.
- Honesty over hype. We publish recall and precision, failures and wins.
- Kindness with candor. Push back on ideas hard; on people, never.
- Reward truth-seeking. The best contribution overturns a wrong assumption — ours included.
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