Growing Research and Infrastructure Laboratories
About

An independent research laboratory

Growing Research and Infrastructure Laboratories develops experimental computational infrastructure for studying complex systems, persistent computational agents, longitudinal learning, reproducibility, observability, evidence preservation, and related research questions.

What this organization is

Growing Research and Infrastructure Laboratories, LLC is an independent research organization constituted as a Kentucky limited liability company, based in Kentucky, United States. It is not a nonprofit organization, a university, a university institute, a government laboratory, or a public-benefit corporation, and the .org domain does not indicate tax-exempt status. It does not currently list institutional affiliations, partners, or funding sources; when it has any to report, they will appear on this page.

Why it exists

Computational systems are usually evaluated briefly and without memory. The laboratory exists to study the other regime — systems that persist, accumulate experience, and can be observed for as long as it takes — and to build the infrastructure that makes such study rigorous: instrumentation, evidence preservation, provenance, reproducibility, and experimental governance.

What it studies

Longitudinal computational behavior, persistent learning and memory, evidence handling and belief revision, reproducibility, observation and intervention, evidence preservation, and the governance of autonomous and semi-autonomous experimentation. The flagship program is Project Second World; the themes are described on the Research page.

How it works

Slowly, on purpose. The laboratory constructs a world, instruments it, preserves its history, observes, and only then interprets. It practices open science about its claims and protected engineering about its implementation: research questions, methodology, hypotheses, falsification criteria, limitations and approved results are published; source code, architecture and internal configuration are not. Where that line falls is stated in Research Disclosure & Reproducibility.

What standards it tries to follow

The commitments below, and the fuller statement in Research Integrity, including a corrections policy under which material errors are corrected visibly rather than silently rewritten.

Commitments

What the laboratory holds itself to

These are not aspirations. They are the conditions under which the laboratory is willing to publish.

  1. Empirical evidence

    Claims rest on preserved experimental records, not on the plausibility of a story. Where the evidence is absent, the claim is absent.

  2. Preservation of negative results

    Experiments that show nothing emerged, or that the apparatus failed, are retained and reported. A null result is a scientific result.

  3. Reproducibility of scientific claims

    Claims should be reproducible or independently testable where practical, even though the laboratory's implementation is not publicly released. Where a claim cannot be tested from outside, the document says so.

  4. Uncertainty

    The laboratory states what it does not know. Every experimental claim on this site is labelled Known, Observed, Inferred, Hypothesized or Unknown.

  5. Falsification

    Hypotheses are stated with the evidence that would weaken or reject them. Research that cannot be wrong is not research the laboratory conducts.

  6. Separation of observation and interpretation

    What the record shows and what the laboratory concludes from it are presented apart, and labelled. Neither is confused with the intentions of the laboratory or the behavior of the subject.

  7. Long-horizon experimentation

    The questions the laboratory asks are answered slowly, if at all. The program is built to run for as long as the questions require.

Boundary of claims

What we do, and what we do not claim

Stated once, plainly, so that no reader has to infer it.

What we do

Growing Research and Infrastructure Laboratories develops experimental computational infrastructure and conducts research involving persistent systems, controlled environments, longitudinal behavior, evidence, reproducibility, and related questions.

What we do not claim

We do not currently claim that Project Second World has demonstrated:

  • artificial general intelligence
  • consciousness
  • sentience
  • human-equivalent cognition
  • autonomous scientific discovery beyond evidence actually published
  • safety guarantees for advanced AI systems

People, affiliations, funding

The laboratory does not currently list staff, advisers, institutional affiliations, partners or funding sources on this site. When it does, the information will appear here and will be accurate. If the laboratory receives grant or sponsored funding in future, the documents that work produces will carry the acknowledgements and disclosures the funder requires.

Early, and saying so. The laboratory is at the beginning of a long program. This site describes what it is doing and how, not what it has achieved. Results will be published in Research Outputs when there are results.

The laboratory builds worlds.The child learns.