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The Six-Month Test: Why Time Is the Only Dimension AI Cannot Fake

Ancient hourglass standing intact in classical architectural ruins surrounded by scattered documents and books, symbolizing temporal verification as the only unfakeable dimension when all behavioral evidence has collapsed—time reveals what persists when assistance is removed and optimization pressure is gone

Every verification method civilization has built shares one vulnerability: they measure moments. A court observes testimony during trial. An employer evaluates performance during interviews. A university assesses understanding through exams. These systems assume that observing correct behavior proves underlying capability. That assumption held because faking behavior was harder than possessing genuine capability. AI severed this The Six-Month Test: Why Time Is the Only Dimension AI Cannot Fake