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AGI-26 · San Francisco · 2026

A tour of the poster

The poster reads top to bottom, then rail to rail. Eight stops — what they say, and why they're placed where they are. For the technical claims behind them, see the paper materials.

M1

Eyebrow

AGI-26 · SAN FRANCISCO — the venue, and nothing else. Earlier drafts carried an "ACCEPTED PAPER" line; the authoritative poster drops it.

M2

Title

THE HYPOTHESIS SURFACE — an operational epistemology for autonomous research.

H.0

The cleared middle

The center of the board is left open on purpose. Nothing is printed there — the void is the surface a hypothesis gets written against.

H.1

COME, in a chalk-fiber enclosure

An irregular, hand-drawn ring encloses the word. On the physical board it's drawn in real chalk over an invisible transferred guide — the first mark on the substrate is literally hand-made.

R1–R3

Left rail — operational spine

Reads upward, facing the void: CLAIMS CARRY FIBERS · CONFLICT YIELDS CERTIFICATES · VOIDS GENERATE HYPOTHESES.

I1–I3

Right rail — integrability conditions

Reads downward: NO BARE CLAIMS · ANTI-MASKING  σ̂ ≤ σ + δ · CERTIFICATES — TORSION / NON-TORSION. One formal anchor, not a bulleted list of results.

M6

The μ readout

μ  0.36 → 0.00  ·  TEXT-COMPUTABLE  ·  JUDGE-FREE — one quiet empirical stamp in the footer, earning the board its scholarly weight without turning it into a results banner.

M7

QR

You're standing where it points. This site is the destination — curated links out to the paper, materials, and everything built alongside it.