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CURSED HELM is an independent research lab from Aotearoa founded by Fraser Austin. We craft bespoke frameworks for AI autonomy and are available to advise on AI-driven information sovereignty.

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Curious Projects

• defaultMODE — Discord-native AI entities w/ long-term self-pruning memory, inverted-index theme mining, selective attention.
• PerSIMS — needs-driven life-sim where embodied LLM agents juggle hunger, hygiene, energy, economy. emergent behaviour under constraint.
• LLMdiscoEVAL — evaluation harness where models perform collaborative "dance routines," scored for synergy + creativity.
• MoRe — Mixture of Rankers ensemble judge merging multiple LLM-as-judge scorers into balanced consensus.
• qBERT — BERT as generative LM via semantic coherence + memory.
• Sefirot — chain-of-thought chatbot structured around the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

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