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Research
Learning Systems and Innate Behavior
Lucas Meyer · Published 2026‑05‑18
A research vision arguing that what makes a creature feel alive is the presence of innate stakes — internal states it did not choose, cannot disable, and must work to keep within viable ranges — and that the next generation of artificial agents may benefit from architectures designed to keep learning after they are deployed, rather than only during pretraining.
A two-product ecosystem: a suite of standalone applications and a Linux-based desktop distribution, built around local-first data, sovereign storage, and minimal cloud dependency.