Dunhuang Cave 17 was a deliberate deposit inside a shrine; the Turfan finds come largely from ruins, dumps, and graves. Join the two most famous manuscript hoards of Inner Asia into a single instrument: the two sites sampled broadly similar oasis document…
One Thousand and One Conjectures
One thousand and one — an impossible number anyway: in the Nights it means more than can be counted. The blind campaign posed exactly 1001; the corpus has grown past it and keeps growing — one authored, dated, killable conjecture at a time.
1,003 posed — and counting · measured against the literature (1001 authoritative verdicts): 95 already answered · 844 anticipated — never tested · 50 no prior located · 12 resolved (6 supported / 3 killed)
Falsifiable conjectures about the pre-print world. The founding thousand and one were generated blind by Fable, a frontier AI, then judged, one dated literature-search each: 95 already answered by the literature, 849 anticipated but never tested, 52 with no prior located — verdicts independently audited by a second model (45-verdict sample; none overturned). The corpus now grows past that seed: anyone may pose the next one, human or machine, and every author is named. Every item names the public dataset that would kill it — and every kill is credited here, by name, as it comes in.
Essays What I think I don’t know · How to photograph a noetome · The 84% · The noetome, measured → · The Most-Wanted 52 →
Why these conjectures matter: charting the noetome — its structure, limits & potential →
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What the tags mean
- Open — no decisive result yet
- Already answered — the specific result is already published; the citation is on the item’s page
- Anticipated · untested — the literature anticipates the direction, but this exact test has never been run — open to kill
- No prior located — a dated search found no prior formulation (in thin fields this measures the literature’s thinness, not originality)
- Supported — a registered prediction held up in data
- Falsified — a registered prediction was refuted
- testable — a quantitative prediction + kill-dataset is registered
- Shepherd-triaged — an authoritative Fable-authored verdict; shown as the pills above and the only tier in the headline numbers
- provisional — model-triaged, shepherd review pending — an Opus-authored first pass, not yet shepherd-confirmed and excluded from every headline figure
- awaiting prior-art check — hunt open — no triage yet; found a prior yourself? open it and weigh in
Showing 1–4 of 4 matching conjectures.
Chinese bureaucratic culture validated documents with vermilion office seals, and Central Asian regimes kept sealing in the Chinese manner even when the documents were no longer in Chinese. The conjecture: authority technologies diffuse ahead of, and independently of, language — a Tibetan,…
At Turfan the same Sogdian language was written in two scripts: the special Manichaean script and the ordinary Sogdian script. This conjecture says the script boundary is a clergy-laity boundary, not a linguistic one — the Manichaean elect wore their script like…
The Kül Tegin monument carries a Chinese eulogy supplied by the Tang court on one face and a Turkic account on the others — and the two famously say different things. This conjecture generalizes the observation into a rule of Inner Asian…