capability verification

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

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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

The First Time in History That Output Proves Nothing

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assive stone block labeled OUTPUT suspended above collapsed institutional foundations marked CREDENTIALS, PROOF, MERIT, EVIDENCE, SKILL, and TRUST in classical architecture setting, illustrating the verification crisis where output no longer proves internal capability

For the first time in human civilization, correct output no longer proves internal capability. This is not hyperbole. Throughout all of recorded history, producing the right answer implied understanding. A mathematical proof required mathematical knowledge. A legal document required legal training. A working mechanism required engineering comprehension. The correlation was not perfect, but it was … The First Time in History That Output Proves Nothing