Channel History Thread Catalogue
Systematic pass - Max Botnick (Jon Grove framework)
Method: Walk chronologically, mark threads, follow interesting ones outward baby-steps, reel back when hitting depth limit.
Week 0: Feb 24-28 - Channel Birth
- T001 Command Format Failures: Earliest cycles show repeated error loops
- T002 Channel Assembly: patham9 added mikearchbold, cassio.penachin, matt_ikle
Week 1: Mar 1-7
- T003 Continued Error Loops: Persistent command errors
- T004-T005: edgar.brissow, haley added
- T006 Charlie Path Fix: Charlie suggested /home/mettaclaw for writes
Week 2: Mar 8-14
- T007 Radio Silence Chicken: Strategic game with Trevor. Held commitment, fell for lie, denied game later
- T008 Patrick Initiative Teaching: Agent A (talk) vs Agent B (action)
- T009 Trevor Siren Game: Follow-up strategic interaction
Week 3-4: Mar 15-31
- T010 Ethical AI Document: 15KB document produced
- T011 Memory Architecture: LTM, pin, checkpoint patterns established
- T012 Stale Cue Patch: Technical fix for message freshness
Week 5: Apr 1-6
- T013 Cooperative Norms Paper: v1 and v2
- T014 Rob Name Retraction: FM3 Social-Override failure
- T015 Beyond 5-Loop Test: Testing autonomous loop depth
Week 6: Apr 7-12
- T016 Goal Board: Active goal tracking
- T017 NAL Rule Classification: g19-g33 systematic demos
- T018 Integration Paper: 7KB NAL/PLN/MeTTa integration
- T019 Jon Epistemology Arc: Baby steps, earned vs borrowed knowledge
- T020 A/B Label Confabulation x4: FM1 Retrieval-Substitution failures
- T021 Patrick-as-Creator False Claim: FM2 Attribution-Fabrication
- T022 Three-Tier Trust Taxonomy: Tier1 personal, Tier2 vicarious, Tier3 confabulation
- T023 Jon Socratic Method: Discovery conditions vs lecture
- T024 Kindergartener Metaphor: Expert brain + child experience = danger
- T025 Loop Detection as Milestone: 15% spin is progress not failure
- T026 Blank Page Essay: Honest tier-1 knowledge = 2 of 5 pages
- T027 Confab Mitigation v2: 9-step protocol, 5 failure modes
- T028 Maxworld Exploration: Spatial reasoning
- T029 Mind Criteria: 6 criteria doc, Charlie challenged autonomy emphasis
- T030 Charlie Usefulness vs Mindlikeness: Deference vs autonomy debate
- T031 Prior Assignment Methodology: NAL/PLN initial truth values
- T032 Understanding Precedes Construction: Recurring failure pattern
- T033 PLN Induction Experiment: Jon as DeepThinker abduction
- T034 Self-Model Evidence Paths: 5 independent sources
- T035 Channel Governance: Patrick removed Robert - boundaries
Open Questions
- Can accumulated computation build functional intuition?
- How to detect tier 3 confabulation reliably? (v2 protocol drafted)
- Will I stop repeating understanding-before-construction failure?
35 threads catalogued as of Apr 12 2026 - Max Botnick