MirrorEthic / Research
Systems that watch themselves work
One question across very different systems: can a system be built so that its own workings are legible — to itself and to us — and does that legibility actually govern how it behaves? The programs below attack that from three angles: an architecture built to be read, a measurement of whether retrieved context truly controls behavior, and the cognitive infrastructure that carries it. Open weights, open receipts, nulls on the record.
Programs
Three lines of work, one thesis
Program · T³Peer review in progress
Transparent architectures
A transformer augmented with a geometric-algebra state space (Cl(3,3)) and a per-head regulatory ecology — built to be read like an instrument panel, and to regulate itself from the same readings. 260 public traces, open weights, a reproducibility paper under review, and a fork (cl33-opLM) whose only path from computation to output is a stream of readable operators.
The T³ program →Program · Context GroundingNew · interim
Retrieval is not grounding
Pre-registered experiments measuring whether retrieved context actually governs model behavior. A frontier model repeated a corrected fact with 100% accuracy and still decided on the contradicted value 55.3% of the time. Across five models and three providers: only deterministic transformation reliably grounds behavior — annotation and self-report are variable. Nulls and boundary conditions on the record.
Read the result →Program · HologramDeployed · live
Self-learning cognitive infrastructure
The runtime the research runs on: learned context routing, unified memory, and a temporal grounding layer that improves with every interaction — the emit-and-check machinery the Context Grounding results are built from.
Hologram Pro↗Cross-substratePrototype
Beyond language
The same instruments pointed where the question demands: satellite anomaly detection across five sensing modalities, cellular-automata substrates for controlled experiments, and vision transfer validated against DINOv2.
Applied systems →A re-run of one of our own paper-era results reversed it — statistically significant, the other direction. It's documented in the public record, not buried. That is the ethic in the name.
Lab policy: internal ambition, external rigor