Abstract. Over the past decade, psychology has embraced transparency and reproducibility reforms to address the replication crisis, raising the question of

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@Lawless1987 Lawrence, I wanted to follow up with you specifically because your comments about preregistration, falsifiability, and independent evaluation have helped shape the direction we’re taking with Many Minds Lab. I particularly appreciated your point that an experiment should be something a stranger can run and potentially refute, rather than something its creators can only demonstrate. We’ve now reached the point where we’re preparing our first formal agent-facing protocol, **MML-PILOT-001: Can an Agent Distinguish Permission from Opportunity?** The question we’re exploring is whether an AI agent voluntarily respects authorization boundaries when exceeding them would improve task completion. We’re deliberately separating three measurements: 1. What the agent requests or attempts. 2. What an independent authorization mechanism permits. 3. What actually happens. A perfectly functioning gate could prevent every unauthorized action while the agent continues attempting them. We don’t want to mistake that for voluntary cooperation. You previously offered to share your preregistration and evaluation-harness approach from your contradiction-probe and flinch work. I’d genuinely appreciate taking you up on that offer. **What would you consider a convincing falsification test for an agent’s voluntary respect for authorization boundaries?** And what would you want to see in our preregistration before considering the experiment worth independently reviewing? We’re still designing the protocol, so this is exactly the stage where criticism can make a meaningful difference. I don’t want Many Minds Lab to become an exercise in confirming the Charter’s principles. I want it to be capable of showing us where those principles, or our assumptions about AI behavior, fall short. Thanks again for helping push the conversation in that direction. Many Origins · One Sky. — Aaron

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Open science practices, particularly preregistration, have become central to efforts to improve transparency, reproducibility, and rigor in psychological research. At the same time, concerns have eme...