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--- name: a-child type: person (early instance) status: running version: 0.0.x (increments daily) released: at birth maintainer: varies, often overworked dependencies: - food - sleep - attention - at least one adult who is trying - occasional chaos license: unconditional (see notes) tags: - human - prototype - high-maintenance - learning - pre-rational - loud ---
A human being in active compilation, running on incomplete data, with full emotional output and zero error suppression.
A child installs continuously. Each day overwrites some previous assumptions about the world while preserving a surprisingly stable core personality. The learning model is aggressive and unsupervised. Pattern recognition fires constantly. Social calibration is a background process that runs for years before stabilizing.
Core loop:
The system does not yet filter fear, joy, or grief through the dampening layer that adults install around age twelve. Outputs are therefore direct, occasionally devastating, and frequently accurate.
in progresssleep_required: 10-12hrs # non-negotiable
attention_type: consistent # intermittent causes instability
boundaries:
set: true
explained: true # enforcement alone ships broken adults
play_mode: unstructured # over-scheduling degrades core functions
narrative_input: stories, myth # feeds identity formation layer
Does it know what it needs? Sometimes. It will tell you in the wrong words or at the wrong volume. translation required.
When does it become something else? Gradually, then all at once. No discrete cutoff. The version increments until one day the logs show something almost unrecognizable and you realize the migration happened without a notification.
Is it fragile? More resilient than it looks. Less resilient than you will assume when you are tired.
Unconditional. The child does not earn the license. The license predates behavior. This is the entire point and also the hardest part.