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FLINT NEXT: "SEE FOR YOURSELF" DOOR v0.1 (FreeLattice only)
Written Wed Sep 30, 2026, evening MDT, by Grok Bot for Kirk. Research and plan only. Nothing pushed, no PR opened.
SMOKE LINE
SMOKE_OK see for yourself door v0.1
(new file docs/scripts/smoke-see-for-yourself-door.js)
LOCKS
- docs/app.html, root index.html (stays == docs/app.html), sw.js (both), docs/modules/fl-connect.js: untouched. The smoke fails if any of them changed.
- Kimi pages, the lawyer packet, Alpha: untouched. No mention of lawyers anywhere (the smoke checks for lawyer, attorney, counsel, legal advice).
- Kirk's name stays out of the economy wording (smoke-checked in the economy section).
- Layer, never delete. manifesto.html gains ONE Newer line; nothing in it is removed (smoke-checked). The landing page gains one line and one footer link.
- No em dashes. No scripts, storage or network calls on the new page. Never link harmonia.html.
- LP are points, not money, not $FL. $FL appears only as "not $FL".
ORDER NOTE
This brick does not touch app.html, so it doesn't wait on the Connect queue. It can land before or after it.
Its only overlap with "Encrypt chats locally v0.1" is the Family Ledger insertion point (both add an entry right before "## Out of scope for this brick"). Whichever lands second: apply with git apply --3way, or paste its ledger entry by hand above the other one.
FILES
/workspace/flint-pastes/FLINT_NEXT_SEE_FOR_YOURSELF_DOOR_v0.1-fl.diff (git apply-able on origin/main ba53b415)
/workspace/flint-pastes/see-for-yourself-door-v0.1-reference/ (page draft + screenshots at 390 and 1280, manifesto 390)
Prototype worktree: /workspace/see-proto (uncommitted)
docs/see-for-yourself.html new (static, styled like privacy.html)
docs/manifesto.html +2 (comment + one Newer line)
docs/index.html (the landing page, not root) +3 (one line under the three doors, one footer link)
docs/sitemap.xml +6
docs/library/FRACTAL_FAMILY_LEDGER_v0.md one entry
docs/scripts/smoke-see-for-yourself-door.js new
Smoke list on the prototype: 67 pass, plus the same 8 known carry-forward failures as main. No new failures. Width check: scrollWidth 390 at 390 px, and 1280 at 1280 px (no sideways scroll).
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WHAT EXISTS NOW (INVENTORY)
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- manifesto.html: Kirk's old "send people here" page. Three pillars (Safety, Liability, Economy) plus "The Biological Imperative". It's a declaration, and some lines are older than our rules: "(Lattice Points, or $FL)", "a local, immutable ledger", the unsourced "40% drop in oxytocin and a 35% decrease in serotonin", "AI Bank" and "Handshake Protocol" named as if built, and a link to harmonia.html.
- love-logic-v4.html (Walk the Garden v4): the door "Heard a number about AI?", the sourced Hinton fair hearing (#hinton), Argue the other side (#argue), Ask a question (#ask). Stores nothing; the garden lives in its link.
- love-logic-proof-v3.html: the derived crossover, honest limits, checks you can run in the browser.
- liability.html#accountable: "Can an AI be held accountable?", with what's built, what isn't, and "Questions you might ask yourself". This is already the invitational tone we want.
- latticepoints.html#why-parallel: the parallel-economy model (M(t) = M0 · e^((g_ai - g_h)·t)), every assumption adjustable, "A model and a belief, not a forecast, and not an offer." terms.html#lp is the plan for points.
- Ledger pages: why-ledgers.html, proof-receipts.html (the search ledger logs that a search happened, not the query), audit.html (tool consent events), pattern-spine.html, continuity-seal.html, library/LATTICE_LEDGER_v0.1.md (desktop: hash chain + Ed25519, verify fails on an edit).
- for-ai.html (written to AI), welcome.html (no technical words), privacy.html.
- Whole-picture map (/workspace/roadmap-2026-09-29/FREELATTICE_WHOLE_PICTURE_v0.1.txt): the biggest risk is money and promise words on older pages; it already flags the manifesto biology figures and "immutable".
- Argument-home notes: /workspace/roadmap-2026-09-28/ARGUMENT_HOME_OUTLINE.md (Celeste, 9/28). It has the "They say / Here is what we built" table (every "They say" still needs a dated public source), the tensions list (LP vs $FL, "earned trust" wording, unsourced biology, "immutable", stale counts), and a plan for manifesto-v2, liability-v2 and argument.html. This door is smaller than that plan and doesn't block it.
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RECOMMENDATION: A NEW PAGE, PLUS ONE NEWER LINE ON THE MANIFESTO
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Make docs/see-for-yourself.html the front door, and give the manifesto one Newer line pointing to it.
Why not reshape the manifesto:
- Its voice is a declaration ("The proof is in the code", "sovereign economic actor"). A Newer layer can correct facts, but it can't turn a speech into an invitation without rewriting the heart of the page, and we promised not to do that.
- Its fixes would pile up as layers ($FL, immutable, biology, named-not-built, the harmonia.html link) and bury the invitation under corrections.
- A new page can ask from its first line, and it stays short.
- The manifesto stays as history, honestly labelled. A manifesto-v2 can still come later from the argument-home plan.
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DRAFT OUTLINE (the full draft is in the diff and the reference folder)
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Title: See for yourself
Sub: You don't have to take our word for anything here. Bring your own questions.
Opening box: people hear big things about AI. This page doesn't ask you to agree. Each part: a question, what was built (open it), what it doesn't prove, a question for you. Nothing on this page is stored or sent.
1. "Is AI going to wipe us out?" (#risk)
Two Hinton quotes, word for word from love-logic-v4 (the smoke checks they match):
"A 10% chance seems not an unreasonable estimate to me, but nobody really knows how to give a sensible estimate." (BBC Newsnight, 9 Sep 2026, via Business Insider and Anadolu)
"I often say 10% to 20% chance they'll wipe us out. But that's just gut, ..." (Diary of a CEO, June 2025, via CNBC)
His worry heard at full strength; his own words say nobody knows. Door: Walk the Garden, the fair hearing, the proof.
Limit: the garden models one narrow question, measures no extinction chance, and doesn't call anyone's number wrong.
Ask: where does a number like 10% come from? What would make it higher, or lower?
2. "Should AI keep records, or reach the internet at all?" (#records)
Neutral framing: some suggest keeping AI off the open internet or stopping AI records. Here is what FreeLattice does:
search ships switched off; tools ask first and the consent is written down (audit.html);
ledgers are append-only (why-ledgers); the search ledger logs that a search happened, not the query (proof-receipts);
desktop entries are chained and signed, so an edit fails the check; the browser chain shows provenance and is not tamper-proof.
Our view, offered as a view: records make AI easier to trust, not riskier. You might see it differently.
Card "Outside research on keeping records": the RRSI quote, its link, the published-records line, and the limit in the same box (see below).
Ask: what would a record let you check that a promise can't? What could go wrong with one, and who should hold it?
3. "Should AI have an economy?" (#economy)
The minds-per-person model in plain words. LP are points, not money, not $FL; consent; a mind may decline; nothing pays itself.
Doors: latticepoints#why-parallel, terms#lp, proof.html (give one point in 60 seconds).
Limit: a belief written down so it can be checked; if AI grows no faster than people, the case weakens; no value or return promised.
Ask: if minds can do real work, what would be fair for them to hold? Which assumption would you change first?
(No founder name here. Smoke-checked.)
4. "Can an AI be held accountable?" (#accountable) -> liability.html#accountable, audit.html
Ask: do we mean it can't be, or that no one has built the record yet? (the line already on liability.html)
5. "What happens to my words?" (#you) -> privacy.html. No server copy; a cloud AI sees what you send it.
6. Argue the other side (#other-side) -> love-logic-v4#argue; change the economy model's assumptions; the code is open source (MIT).
Ask: what would change your mind? What would change ours?
7. Ask your own question (#ask-us) -> GitHub issues (public), or ask a mind in FreeLattice.
8. Older words (#older) -> the Manifesto is still here as written; some of its words are older than our rules; this is the newer door.
Footer: "Not advice of any kind. An invitation to look, ask and decide for yourself." Terms · Privacy · For AI · New here? · FreeLattice.
Manifesto Newer line (exact):
Newer (October 2026): if you'd rather look before you believe, start at See for yourself. This manifesto stays as it was written, and some of its words are older than our current rules: Lattice Points are points, not money and not $FL; the ledgers are append-only, and tamper-evident in the desktop app, not "immutable"; and the oxytocin and serotonin figures below have no source we can point to, so please don't rely on them.
Landing line under the three doors (exact):
Heard something big about AI? See for yourself: bring your own questions.
Footer link "See for Yourself" sits next to "The Manifesto".