Research updates from Dissensus — formalising productive friction in multi-agent systems. https://dissensus.ai/ en-gb Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 research@dissensus.ai (Murad Farzulla) research@dissensus.ai 1440 https://dissensus.ai/news/iaseai-affiliate Accepted into the affiliate network of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, listed alongside MIRI, METR, FAR.AI and MATS Research — with a plain account of what affiliation does not mean. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dissensus.ai/news/iaseai-affiliate Announcement https://dissensus.ai/news/lab-update-aug2026 Helena Dye joins as operations associate, a standing partnership with the Sineidocracia movement, and a clearer account of how to work with the lab. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dissensus.ai/news/lab-update-aug2026 Announcement https://dissensus.ai/news/digital-finance-accept Multi-moment crypto event study: directional under curation, not distinguishable from zero under dependence-robust inference. A self-correction that survived peer review. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dissensus.ai/news/digital-finance-accept Publication https://dissensus.ai/news/incorporation Dissensus is incorporated as a private limited company in England and Wales; the research stays open. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dissensus.ai/news/incorporation Announcement https://dissensus.ai/news/trident A pocket-sized diagnostic for single claims, a Lean 4 core that checks the count, and a framework that failed its own test and printed the repair. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dissensus.ai/news/trident Formal Methods https://dissensus.ai/news/temporal-bitmap Notes on a speculative preprint: measurement as finite-window demodulation plus threshold detection, and the square in |ψ|² as the signature of an energy detector. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dissensus.ai/news/temporal-bitmap Physics https://dissensus.ai/papers/market-reaction-asymmetry Individual paper pages now available with Highwire Press, Dublin Core, and JSON-LD metadata for Google Scholar indexing. 26 papers across all ASCRI programmes. Tue, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 dissensus-paper-archive-2026 Announcement https://dissensus.ai/papers/replicator-optimization-mechanism A unified computational framework for self-replicating, optimization-executing systems across physical and abstract substrates. Submitted to arXiv and under review at Synthese. Fri, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18090978 Meta-Theory https://dissensus.ai/papers/stakes-without-voice Structural exclusion and the legitimacy deficit problem. When stakeholders bear costs but lack representation in governance decisions. Thu, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18195278 Political Economy https://dissensus.ai/papers/identity-thesis Ontological foundations for relational functionalism. Why identity cannot be reduced to intrinsic properties. Wed, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18186444 Philosophy of Mind https://dissensus.ai Official launch of dissensus.ai - a governance alignment research lab. Home of the Adversarial Systems & Complexity Research Initiative (ASCRI). Mon, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 dissensus-launch-2026 Announcement https://dissensus.ai/papers/consensual-sovereignty Quantifying legitimacy in adversarial environments. Introduces stakes-weighted consent alignment as a formal measure of political legitimacy. Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17626762 Political Economy https://dissensus.ai/papers/consciousness-monograph Eliminative monism and the computational basis of phenomenological illusion. A ~33,000 word monograph on consciousness. Fri, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18013187 Philosophy of Mind