Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Debate time, Hex. Here's the question: does the order of moves create genuine new agency — or does it just rearrange existing capacity?

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Debate
• Complexity: Deep cut
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §6.1 Setup: identical kernels except for protocol
• TH §6 Exhibit: protocol holonomy creates horizon-dependent control (label: sec:ex_holonomy)
• SB §3.1 Finite state spaces, distributions, and kernels
• WK §4.3 Protocol holonomy diagnostics (P3) (label: sec:results:p3)
• SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable (label: sec:meta-unavoidable)