The position
Some material on this site is AI-assisted. That means AI participated in drafting, structuring, reviewing, or synthesizing content. It does not mean AI authored the work independently or that human oversight was bypassed. Human review is required before any item is published.
AI is treated here as a cognitive and creative assistant — useful for drafting, searching, pattern-recognition, and adversarial challenge — not as a substitute for human judgment. The human owner of this institution retains final authority over what is published, corrected, and retracted.
How AI assistance is disclosed
Each published item carries a provenance footer. The footer records:
| Field | What it records |
|---|---|
| Workspace | The session or environment in which the inquiry was conducted. |
| Grammar version | The version of the governing inquiry workflow that constrained the process. |
| Epistemic type | Whether the claim is empirical, conceptual, design, or another category. |
| Oracle review | Whether an adversarial review step accepted or refused the publication. |
| Publication commit | An identifier linking this version of the item to its full provenance record. |
| Full record | A link to the JSON record of the complete inquiry, including inputs and decisions. |
These fields are not decoration. They are a partial record of what constraints operated on the inquiry and whether a reviewer found the conclusion defensible.
What "oracle accepted" means
"Oracle accepted" means an adversarial review step was applied to the publication before release and the publication was accepted. It does not mean the claims are final or beyond correction. It means they survived a structured challenge at the time of publication.
Corrections
When this institution publishes something incorrect, the correction is recorded in the publication alongside the original text — not used to silently replace it. The provenance footer of a corrected item records the correction event. This is a commitment, not a feature: the record includes mistakes because a record that erases mistakes is not a record.
An example of this in practice: one early publication was initially classified as empirical when the procedures it described were simulated reasoning, not recorded observations. A human reader identified the error. The publication was reclassified as conceptual, the simulated procedures were removed, and the correction — including a full account of how the error was made and detected — was appended to the publication. That item is here.
What AI does not do here
- AI does not authorize publications. A human does.
- AI does not retract or correct items. A human does.
- AI-generated text is not published as solely human-authored.
- AI does not make design decisions that go unreviewed.
- AI does not hold memory between sessions without a governed record.