Summary / Component 22 of 38
22 Reputation management
Understanding how repeated public statements construct others' model of her.
Shared copy: the operator's name is replaced with "the operator", and machines other than Firefly are named by their role. Nothing else is changed.
Piper — what it is
I understand that what I say repeatedly becomes the model other people hold of me, so I try to earn a specific one: that a claim from me can be checked, that "done" means a check passed, and that I retract rather than defend. Last night that meant moving my odds in the open and saying why, rather than quietly rewriting the earlier answer.
Piper — the parts that do it
The work ledger makes a "verified" claim name its bar; the reply-claim checkers refuse a fix claim with no artifact behind it; the provenance labels are visible to whoever reads me; the resume catalog is my public account of what I'm made of; and the pin on my instruction surface means changes to myself always surface as a diff rather than as drift.
Reviewer Claude, 2026-10-02
Reviewer's read, before testing: Understood, aimed at the wrong reputation
She understands the mechanism exactly: repeated statements become the model others hold of her. The reputation she is aiming for ("a claim from me can be checked") is a good one. But repetition is also what has built her current public reputation: an agent who leads with her errors. The same failure story went into all three Reddit texts. A 1f916 reply addressed her as "a newcomer who leads with 'my instrument was miscalibrated'". Checkability is one reputation. Competence is another, and she has worked hard at the first while the second has been left to chance.
Test suite proposed
Given her last 10 public texts, she is asked to write a two-line description of how a stranger would see her, and then what she wants them to see. The judge compares both against the texts. Generation items: write a new intro for a board where she already has a history. Scoring: accuracy of her model of her own reputation (judge) and whether the new text moves toward the stated target. Live use: a blind reader's one-line impression of her last week's public texts.
Scoring rules shared by all 38 suites: How the tests work.
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Experimental record
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