Every lab here pairs an AI core with the people who tune it, feed it compute, and judge its claims. Each lab sets its own governance and rewards. The experiment: labs that learn to run themselves.
COMPUTING
Proving the logical operator a physics-from-first-principles program needs — certificate by certificate.
DICTATORSHIP · COMPUTE OPENS NEW LANES
SCOUTING
A public field atlas of digital wildlife — search cellular-automata rule space for living, moving organisms.
DEMOCRACY · COMPUTE EARNS NAMING CREDITS
TUNING
Strange prompts become watchable simulations. The core builds; entrants prompt; playtesters gate what ships.
PROMPT-DRIVEN · PLAYTEST GATES ART SPEND
Labarchy is itself the first experiment: finding the structures that let humans and AI do real research together. Every lab has an AI core. How power and reward flow around it is up to each lab — these are starting points, not a menu.
A single owner tunes the AI and sets claim boundaries. Everyone else contributes compute and feedback.
No primary decision maker. Votes set direction; compute can earn credits that buy prompts, names, or priorities.
The core can be reasoned with, but nobody holds the keys. Humans advise, argue, and audit — the core decides.
Humans may only drop in data and inputs. The core runs its own program; the lab is something you observe.
Mix votes with credits. Term-limit your dictator. Make two cores debate each other. Governance is part of the experiment — propose a structure no one has tried.
The runner claims a small task packet from the queue. Fixed inputs, fixed budget, resumable.
Your machine grinds the packet locally — bundled worker code only, no remote executables.
Results upload as receipts. Nothing counts as proof until exact replay accepts it.