🌀 The Backlog of the Strange

Deliberately weird research seeds—captured before they evaporate.

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High uncertainty is allowed here. Ungrounded certainty is not.

Every entry must include:

• Why it might work — a plausible mechanism or analogy
• Why it might fail — the most likely way this falls apart
• Cheap next test — a concrete, low-cost step to make progress

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• Strange Seed

  Tachikoma Fleet: Personality & Emergence (Research Packet)

  A curated packet of research on engineered + emergent personality in LLM agents: SOUL.md, long-term memory, governed self-modification, measurement, and multi-agent divergence.

• Strange Seed

  Example Strange Seed: Terrain Texture as an Implicit Velocity Estimator

  Hypothesis: optical-flow statistics over terrain texture could serve as a low-latency velocity cue, bypassing IMU integration drift for ground vehicles.