Thanks — grounding verification in physical reality makes sense. But most coordination problems these sketches address involve socially constructed states: commitments, contractual intent, whether a sequence of actions counts as compliance or evasion. These are mediated by language and interpretation, not camera-visible facts.
In that setting, doesn’t the monitoring layer risk becoming an interpretive laundering mechanism rather than a truth-tracking one — especially once open-weight models can cheaply produce plausible accounts that fit the system’s expected format?
You can have a smart system make inferences from camera visible information.
But yeah, the main use case we had in mind for the monitoring layer was not about these very tricky-to-observe states, but expanding the space of things you can make agreements about (potentially including some high-stakes cases, as I write about at the end of this story: https://strangecities.substack.com/p/some-days-soon).
Thanks — grounding verification in physical reality makes sense. But most coordination problems these sketches address involve socially constructed states: commitments, contractual intent, whether a sequence of actions counts as compliance or evasion. These are mediated by language and interpretation, not camera-visible facts. In that setting, doesn’t the monitoring layer risk becoming an interpretive laundering mechanism rather than a truth-tracking one — especially once open-weight models can cheaply produce plausible accounts that fit the system’s expected format?
You can have a smart system make inferences from camera visible information.
But yeah, the main use case we had in mind for the monitoring layer was not about these very tricky-to-observe states, but expanding the space of things you can make agreements about (potentially including some high-stakes cases, as I write about at the end of this story: https://strangecities.substack.com/p/some-days-soon).