Author

Benjamin Wilkins

Founder of Encevra. Author of the Encevra research rounds and the Theory of Collaborative Intelligence.ORCID

Theory

Theory of Collaborative Intelligence

Research rounds

  1. Round 54The Same Statements, New Cases: Held Out Replication of Domain General Propositions on New Packets and New Surface Forms2026-11-11
  2. Round 53Stated Plainly, Tested to Break: Domain General Candidate Propositions on Disagreement, Review, Memory and Evidence, on Held Out Mixed Cases2026-11-10
  3. Round 52The Second Reader or the Second Call? Matched Call Baselines for Agreement Routing, Validation and Recovery2026-11-09
  4. Round 51Valid Evidence, Wrong Verdict: Transfer Tests on Code Review and Raw Table Claims, with Independent Recovery2026-11-08
  5. Round 50When Both Readers Are Wrong: Open Removal Tests for Review and Rewriting2026-11-07
  6. Round 49Remember the Answer, or Remember the Procedure?2026-11-07
  7. Round 48Extract First, or Brief First?2026-11-06
  8. Round 47When a Replacement Is Not a Cure: Supersession, Schedule Thresholds, and Independent Review2026-11-05
  9. Round 46Who Must Look Again? Disagreement Routing, False Hold Load, and What a Reviewer Must See2026-11-04
  10. Round 45The Rule or the Reader? Record Sets, Scoped Exclusions, and Where a Fixed Resolver Is Wrong and a Witness Is Right2026-11-03
  11. Round 44This Record Fails, or No Record Exists? Record Level Status Ledgers, Completeness Records, and Independently Reviewed HOLD Labels2026-11-02
  12. Round 43Open Record or Closed Record? Declared Record Conventions, Near Miss Records Read as Negation, and Flag Only Against Rewriting Validators2026-11-01
  13. Round 42Role or Witness? Measured Joint Misreading of Undetermined Facts by One Witness in Two Roles and by Two Witnesses in One Role2026-10-31
  14. Round 41Hard by Construction or Hard by Selection? Disagreement Mined Item Pools, Isomorphic Twin Holdouts, and the Consensus Errors That Disagreement Cannot Find2026-10-30
  15. Round 40Composition Before Capability: Six Noetis Composition Topologies Compared on Release Safety, Abstention, and Calls per Decision2026-10-29
  16. Round 39When the Records Disagree: Conflicting Collateral Evidence, Evidentiary Lens Balancing, and Abstention Failure in Multi-Witness Contract Audits2026-10-29
  17. Round 38Signed Is Not Operative: Conditional Effectiveness, Counterpart Authority, and Sub-Clause Scope Partition in Multi-Witness Contract Audits2026-10-28
  18. Round 37When the Contract Changed After Signing: Event-Date Resolution, Register-Anchored Completeness, and Stale Registers in Multi-Witness Contract Audits2026-10-28
  19. Round 36When One Complete Document Is Still Half the Truth: Cross-Document Reference Closure, Precedence DAGs, and Compositional Clause Chains Across Multi-Instrument Quorums2026-10-28
  20. Round 35When Grounded Witnesses Still Agree on a Falsehood: Correlated Semantic Failures, Verbatim Span Grounding, and Matched-Compute Multi-Model Quorums2026-10-27
  21. Round 34Can Trust Bootstrap Itself? Circular Attestation, Sybil Issuers, and the Minimum Grounded Trust Base2026-10-25
  22. Round 33Who Certifies Independence? Provenance Completeness and the Limits of Self-Attested Witness Quorums2026-10-24
  23. Round 32Who Watches the Witness? Boundary Hardening and a Blinded Mutation Holdout for the RISE Gate2026-10-23
  24. Round 31Did the Root Actually Move? A Signed Sandbox Dry Run of the RISE Gate2026-10-22
  25. Round 30Can We Intervene for Real? A Fail-Closed Readiness Gate for Active Evidence-Lineage Trials2026-10-21
  26. Round 29Round 29 - Make the Evidence Move: Active Source Interventions and the Limits of Dependency Discovery20 October 2026
  27. Round 28Round 28 - Confidence About What? Separating Target Probability, Structural Ambiguity, and Model Adequacy19 October 2026
  28. Round 27Round 27 - Which Check Should Run Next? Model-Set-Safe Verification Under a Fixed Budget18 October 2026
  29. Round 26Round 26 - What Can the Watchers Ever Know? Minimum Observables for Detecting Omitted Change17 October 2026
  30. Round 25When Silence Looks Like Stability: Detecting Missing Change Evidence in Collaborative AI Systems16 October 2026
  31. Round 24Do Two Watchers Count as Two? Authority Lineage and Common-Origin Failure in Claim Revalidation15 October 2026
  32. Round 23Can the Gate Catch Tomorrow's Change? A Prospective Shadow Trial of Claim Revalidation14 October 2026
  33. Round 22When Does an Audit Expire? Dependency-Triggered Revalidation for Rapidly Changing Agent Systems13 October 2026
  34. Round 21Where Did the Trace Break? An Attempt-Bound, Fail-Closed Measurement Gate for Noetis12 October 2026
  35. Round 20What Must the Log Reveal? Minimal-Disclosure Receipts for Verifiable Evidence Delivery11 October 2026
  36. Round 19Did the Evidence Reach the Agent? Reconstructable Evidence Lifecycles for Reliable Experiments10 October 2026
  37. Round 18When Evidence Changes: Versioned Support and Bounded Belief Repair9 October 2026
  38. Round 17When the Question Changes: Recoverable Evidence Under a Context Budget8 October 2026
  39. Round 16Before the Answer Closes: Detecting Missing Decision Conditions7 October 2026
  40. Round 15What makes a message worth sharing?6 October 2026
  41. Round 14When the judges are uncertain: measuring revision gains without an infallible evaluator5 October 2026
  42. Round 13From final scores to measurable corrections4 October 2026
  43. Round 12After the last revision: calibrating release risk4 October 2026
  44. Round 11When should collaborators spend their next unit of compute?3 October 2026
  45. Round 10Evidence exchange, selective revision, and a testable pathOctober 2026
  46. Round 9A research agenda for the labSeptember 2026
  47. Round 8Delayed feedback can act on a temporary traceSeptember 2026
  48. Round 3Hippocampal ripples and compositional inferenceAugust 2026