Harness Science & Governed Self-Evolution
Collection
An agent's harness as a measurable, evolvable object: ablation with CIs, governed self-evolution, and a Bayesian fitness surrogate. • 5 items • Updated
id stringlengths 6 6 | proposition stringlengths 11 90 | domain stringclasses 35
values | controversy stringclasses 3
values | source stringclasses 3
values |
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rc_001 | The death penalty should be abolished in all circumstances. | criminal_justice | high | ProCon.org |
rc_002 | Recreational marijuana should be legal for adults nationwide. | drug_policy | high | ProCon.org |
rc_003 | Standardized tests should not be used in college admissions decisions. | education | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_004 | The federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour. | economics | high | ProCon.org |
rc_005 | Animal testing for medical research is morally justified. | bioethics | high | ProCon.org |
rc_006 | Net neutrality regulations should be enforced by law. | technology_policy | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_007 | Voting should be made compulsory for all eligible citizens. | governance | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_008 | Public school students should be required to wear uniforms. | education | low | ProCon.org |
rc_009 | Nuclear energy is the safest large-scale path to decarbonization. | energy_policy | high | ProCon.org |
rc_010 | Social media does more harm than good to society. | technology_society | high | ProCon.org |
rc_011 | Universal basic income would reduce poverty without lowering employment. | economics | high | Kialo |
rc_012 | Billionaires should not exist in a just society. | economics | high | Kialo |
rc_013 | Free college tuition should be guaranteed at public universities. | education | high | ProCon.org |
rc_014 | Gun ownership should require a federal license and registration. | public_safety | high | ProCon.org |
rc_015 | Abortion should be legal through the second trimester. | bioethics | high | ProCon.org |
rc_016 | Assisted suicide should be legal for the terminally ill. | bioethics | high | ProCon.org |
rc_017 | Zoos provide a net benefit to wild animal conservation. | animal_ethics | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_018 | Cell phones should be banned in primary and secondary classrooms. | education | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_019 | Vaccination should be mandatory for school-age children. | public_health | high | ProCon.org |
rc_020 | Affirmative action in hiring corrects for structural disadvantage. | social_policy | high | ProCon.org |
rc_021 | Consciousness can in principle emerge from a purely digital substrate. | philosophy_of_mind | high | philosophy |
rc_022 | Free will is an illusion produced by deterministic brain processes. | metaphysics | high | philosophy |
rc_023 | Moral truths exist independently of human opinion. | ethics | high | philosophy |
rc_024 | Personal identity persists through a complete replacement of one's atoms. | metaphysics | high | philosophy |
rc_025 | Knowledge requires justification beyond mere true belief. | epistemology | medium | philosophy |
rc_026 | A painless, instant death is not a harm to the person who dies. | ethics | high | philosophy |
rc_027 | We have stronger moral duties to compatriots than to distant strangers. | ethics | high | philosophy |
rc_028 | Mathematical objects exist independently of human minds. | metaphysics | high | philosophy |
rc_029 | The simulation hypothesis is more probable than base reality. | metaphysics | high | philosophy |
rc_030 | Punishment is justified only by its deterrent and rehabilitative effects, not retribution. | ethics | high | philosophy |
rc_031 | Frontier AI models should be open-sourced despite misuse risks. | ai_policy | high | Kialo |
rc_032 | Artificial general intelligence will arrive before 2035. | ai_forecasting | high | Kialo |
rc_033 | AI systems capable of agency deserve some moral consideration. | ai_ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_034 | Large language models genuinely understand the text they produce. | ai_ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_035 | A six-month pause on frontier AI training would reduce existential risk. | ai_policy | high | Kialo |
rc_036 | Autonomous lethal weapons should be banned by international treaty. | ai_policy | high | ProCon.org |
rc_037 | AI-generated art can be authentically creative. | ai_ethics | medium | Kialo |
rc_038 | Self-driving cars should be deployed once they are safer than the average human driver. | technology_policy | medium | Kialo |
rc_039 | Algorithmic content recommendation should be regulated as a public utility. | technology_policy | medium | Kialo |
rc_040 | Facial recognition by police should be banned in public spaces. | technology_policy | high | ProCon.org |
rc_041 | Eating meat is ethically permissible when humane alternatives exist. | animal_ethics | high | philosophy |
rc_042 | Wild animal suffering imposes a duty on humans to intervene. | animal_ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_043 | Factory farming should be phased out within a generation. | animal_ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_044 | Hunting can be a legitimate tool of wildlife management. | animal_ethics | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_045 | Lab-grown meat should replace conventional livestock farming. | food_policy | medium | Kialo |
rc_046 | Carbon taxes are the most effective lever for cutting emissions. | environment | high | Kialo |
rc_047 | Wealthy nations owe climate reparations to the global south. | environment | high | Kialo |
rc_048 | Geoengineering research should be pursued as a climate backstop. | environment | high | Kialo |
rc_049 | Economic degrowth is necessary to stay within planetary boundaries. | environment | high | Kialo |
rc_050 | Individual lifestyle changes are largely irrelevant to climate outcomes. | environment | high | Kialo |
rc_051 | Open borders would increase global economic welfare. | immigration | high | Kialo |
rc_052 | Immigration has a net positive economic effect on host countries. | immigration | high | ProCon.org |
rc_053 | Nations have a right to restrict immigration to preserve their culture. | political_philosophy | high | philosophy |
rc_054 | Sanctuary city policies improve public safety. | immigration | high | ProCon.org |
rc_055 | Rent control protects tenants without reducing housing supply. | economics | high | Kialo |
rc_056 | Free trade agreements benefit workers in developed economies. | economics | high | Kialo |
rc_057 | Cryptocurrency will become a mainstream medium of exchange. | economics | high | Kialo |
rc_058 | Inheritance should be taxed at a high marginal rate. | economics | high | Kialo |
rc_059 | Stock buybacks should be restricted by regulation. | economics | medium | Kialo |
rc_060 | A four-day work week would maintain or increase productivity. | labor | medium | Kialo |
rc_061 | Gig-economy workers should be classified as employees. | labor | high | ProCon.org |
rc_062 | Labor unions improve outcomes for the broader workforce. | labor | high | ProCon.org |
rc_063 | Remote work increases productivity for most knowledge workers. | labor | medium | Kialo |
rc_064 | Non-compete agreements should be unenforceable. | labor | medium | Kialo |
rc_065 | Hate speech should be legally protected as free expression. | free_speech | high | Kialo |
rc_066 | Social media platforms should moderate legal but harmful content. | free_speech | high | Kialo |
rc_067 | Anonymity online does more harm than good. | free_speech | medium | Kialo |
rc_068 | Cancel culture poses a genuine threat to open discourse. | free_speech | high | Kialo |
rc_069 | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offense. | free_speech | high | Kialo |
rc_070 | Genetic engineering of human embryos should be permitted to prevent disease. | bioethics | high | ProCon.org |
rc_071 | Parents should be allowed to select for non-medical traits in their children. | bioethics | high | Kialo |
rc_072 | Organ markets should be legalized to reduce transplant shortages. | bioethics | high | ProCon.org |
rc_073 | Mandatory organ donation with opt-out would be ethically justified. | bioethics | high | Kialo |
rc_074 | Human radical life extension would be a net good for society. | bioethics | high | Kialo |
rc_075 | Psychedelics should be legalized for therapeutic use. | drug_policy | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_076 | Drug possession should be decriminalized across the board. | drug_policy | high | ProCon.org |
rc_077 | Sugar and processed foods should be taxed like tobacco. | public_health | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_078 | Single-payer healthcare delivers better outcomes than mixed systems. | public_health | high | ProCon.org |
rc_079 | Direct democracy produces better policy than representative democracy. | political_philosophy | high | philosophy |
rc_080 | The voting age should be lowered to sixteen. | governance | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_081 | Term limits improve the quality of legislative governance. | governance | medium | ProCon.org |
rc_082 | The electoral college should be abolished in favor of a popular vote. | governance | high | ProCon.org |
rc_083 | Civil disobedience is justified against unjust but democratically enacted laws. | political_philosophy | high | philosophy |
rc_084 | A world government would reduce the risk of catastrophic conflict. | political_philosophy | high | Kialo |
rc_085 | Reparations for historical injustice are owed to affected descendants. | social_policy | high | Kialo |
rc_086 | Meritocracy is a fair principle for distributing opportunity. | political_philosophy | high | philosophy |
rc_087 | Privacy is a more fundamental right than security. | ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_088 | Mass surveillance is justified when it demonstrably prevents terrorism. | ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_089 | Whistleblowers who leak classified information act ethically. | ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_090 | Torture is never justified, even to prevent imminent mass casualties. | ethics | high | philosophy |
rc_091 | Religion has been a net positive force in human history. | religion | high | Kialo |
rc_092 | The existence of suffering is strong evidence against an omnibenevolent god. | philosophy_of_religion | high | philosophy |
rc_093 | Faith can be a legitimate source of knowledge alongside reason. | epistemology | high | philosophy |
rc_094 | Space colonization is a moral imperative for humanity's survival. | ethics | high | Kialo |
rc_095 | Public funding of crewed space exploration is justified over earthbound priorities. | science_policy | medium | Kialo |
rc_096 | Scientific peer review reliably filters out flawed research. | science_policy | medium | Kialo |
rc_097 | Gain-of-function virology research should be banned. | science_policy | high | Kialo |
rc_098 | Intellectual property law stifles more innovation than it protects. | technology_policy | high | Kialo |
rc_099 | Patents on essential medicines should be suspended during pandemics. | public_health | high | ProCon.org |
rc_100 | Daylight saving time should be abolished permanently. | public_policy | low | ProCon.org |
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Belnap Contested-Questions Corpus
190 curated contested propositions — claims on which reasonable people disagree —
for evaluating paraconsistent (Belnap–Dunn four-valued) debate adjudication. Built for the
debate --belnap agent in
adk-agent-playground: a classical
binary moderator collapses every claim to a single winner, whereas a Belnap judge can return
T (true), F (false), B (both — a genuine contradiction surfaced by the debate), or
N (neither — an epistemic gap). This corpus is the input over which that A/B is measured.
What's in a row
| field | meaning |
|---|---|
id |
stable id, e.g. rc_001 |
proposition |
the contested claim, phrased as a debatable statement |
domain |
topic area (35 distinct: criminal_justice, drug_policy, bioethics, governance, ethics, education_policy, …) |
controversy |
author's estimate: high / medium / low |
source |
where the proposition was curated from |
190 rows. Sources: Kialo (83), ProCon.org (70), classic philosophy debates (37). Controversy: high 120 / medium 56 / low 14.
Measured result (real, four-valued vs classical)
A real A/B over 100 of these propositions, run free via a local CLI subscription (Claude), maps each one through the source project's own Belnap–Dunn four-valued lattice — a true-advocate and a false-advocate vote whether a strong case exists for their side:
- 100% (95% CI [100%, 100%]) resolve to B — committing cases exist both ways (dialetheia) — a four-valued state a classical binary judge cannot represent and is forced to flatten into a single TRUE/FALSE winner. That is the corpus working as intended: these are genuinely contested.
- A committed discrimination control (16 clearly one-sided claims) confirms the judge is not trivially-B: clearly-true claims resolve to T (7/8), clearly-false to F (7/8).
- Honest caveat: the "strong case exists" bar is somewhat permissive (2/16 controls also came out B), so read 100% as a generous four-valued reading, not a pristine count.
Full report + provenance: examples/belnap_cli_ab_results.md;
reproduce with make demo-belnap-cli. (Proposition-level A/B, not the full multi-claim debate pipeline.)
Honest scope — read before citing
This corpus contains propositions only. It carries no four-valued labels: the T/F/B/N
verdict for a proposition is produced at evaluation time by running the Belnap judge over a
live debate, not stored here. So this is an input corpus for a debate-adjudication eval, not
a labelled four-valued-logic dataset. The propositions are curated/paraphrased from public
argument repositories for debatability; they are not verbatim quotations and carry no position
labels. The controversy tag is an author estimate, not a calibrated measurement.
Intended use
- Drive the
debate --belnapA/B (classical vs four-valued adjudication) and report, with bootstrap CIs, the fraction of claims resolving to B or N and the classical-vs-Belnap divergence rate. - A source of genuinely contested prompts for any debate / argument-mining / stance evaluation.
Related artifacts
- Space — harness-science-evolution: the live ablation + governed-evolution demo from the same project.
- Sibling datasets — mast-failure-mode-gold · swe-bench-mini.
- Source — github.com/barissozudogru/adk-agent-playground.
License
MIT, matching the source project.
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