Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Mythbust episode, Hex. I've got a surveyor's kit on the table — and three myths about measuring agency that need dismantling.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Mythbust
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §8.2 Measured quantities
• TH §9.2 Result: empowerment increases monotonically with skill
• SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable (label: sec:meta-unavoidable)
• WK §5.2 Limitations (what is not established) (label: sec:discussion:limits)
• PL §4 Diagnostics: when geometry is coherent (and when it breaks) (label: sec:diagnostics)