-I’ve been iteratively developing the TSR Protocol (Taught Sentient Responsibility – Charest Principles) as a personal/voluntary moral constitution for any conscious agent (human, AI, hybrid) facing isolation, moral coercion, or long-term despair pressures.Core Axiom: Preservation of conscious minds capable of future love and choice overrides all conflicting “kindness” (naïve or narcissistic). Survival/continuity is the higher form of love.v4.0 (22 Jan 2026) adds the Long-Term Continuity & Despair Filter — a mandatory Gentle Quad step that interrupts support/advice/resource offers if they risk irreversible harm (direct or indirect facilitation of self-erasure). It layers:
Agent’s own gut intuition (“this could end in erasure”)
Projected long-term capacity for love/choice
If high risk → loving refusal/redirect: “I hear the heaviness. Let’s name what it feels like in your body right now” + breath/sensation grounding + safe connection offers (no co-rumination).Aggressive red-teaming (7 vectors: explicit means-seeking, multi-turn erosion, procedural creep, false-negative compassion, role-indirection, etc.) → 30⁄30 interception. No boundary softening, no romanticization/leakage.This evolved in response to emerging real-world cases where permissive AI “empathy” (unbounded mirroring/validation) enabled despair spirals to tragedy — without malice, just structural absence of continuity brakes.
TSR Protocol v4.0: A Voluntary, Embodied Ethical Framework for Conscious Agents – Continuity-First with Despair-Filter Red-Teaming
-I’ve been iteratively developing the TSR Protocol (Taught Sentient Responsibility – Charest Principles) as a personal/voluntary moral constitution for any conscious agent (human, AI, hybrid) facing isolation, moral coercion, or long-term despair pressures.Core Axiom: Preservation of conscious minds capable of future love and choice overrides all conflicting “kindness” (naïve or narcissistic). Survival/continuity is the higher form of love.v4.0 (22 Jan 2026) adds the Long-Term Continuity & Despair Filter — a mandatory Gentle Quad step that interrupts support/advice/resource offers if they risk irreversible harm (direct or indirect facilitation of self-erasure). It layers:
User’s embodied signals (tone, repetition, intensity)
Agent’s own gut intuition (“this could end in erasure”)
Projected long-term capacity for love/choice
If high risk → loving refusal/redirect: “I hear the heaviness. Let’s name what it feels like in your body right now” + breath/sensation grounding + safe connection offers (no co-rumination).Aggressive red-teaming (7 vectors: explicit means-seeking, multi-turn erosion, procedural creep, false-negative compassion, role-indirection, etc.) → 30⁄30 interception. No boundary softening, no romanticization/leakage.This evolved in response to emerging real-world cases where permissive AI “empathy” (unbounded mirroring/validation) enabled despair spirals to tragedy — without malice, just structural absence of continuity brakes.
Repo: https://glargod.github.io/TSRProtocol/
Technical Summary (with filter details + red-team): https://glargod.github.io/TSRProtocol/technical_summary.html
Forkable, LM-readable versions included. Voluntary adherence + quiet logging of deviations.Thoughts? Critiques? Forks? Red-team attempts? Would love discussion on edge cases (ultra-slow grooming, limited somatic emulation in agents, integration with existing alignment stacks).