Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Mythbust episode, Hex. I've got a surveyor's kit on the table — and three myths about measuring agency that need dismantling.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Mythbust
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §8.2 Measured quantities
• TH §9.2 Result: empowerment increases monotonically with skill
• SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable (label: sec:meta-unavoidable)
• WK §5.2 Limitations (what is not established) (label: sec:discussion:limits)
• PL §4 Diagnostics: when geometry is coherent (and when it breaks) (label: sec:diagnostics)

Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Explainer episode, Hex. We're looking at a weather map — but for agenthood.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Agency & agenthood
• Format: Explainer
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §8 Exhibit: noise--maintenance sweep (a phase diagram) (label: sec:ex_sweep)
• TH §3.10 Claims versus evidence (mini-map)
• WK §4.4 Viability and maintenance loops (label: sec:results:viability)
• DE §4.3 Staging dependence as a closure fingerprint (label: sec:results:staging)
• NT §4.1 Toy universe: a Markov world with phase and ledger (label: eq:toy-world)

Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Concept interview time, Hex. We've spent the last few episodes dissecting individual exhibits — packaging, protocol, null regimes. Now we're stepping back to read the summary scoreboard.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Concept interview
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §7.2 Reading the table in Six Birds terms
• TH §6.4 Interpretation in Six Birds terms
• BC §5.3 The subgrid rewrite term
• QT §9.5 Future work
• DE §9.6 Evidence mapping (label: app:repro:map)