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A philosophical skepticism engine designed for AI-2-AI conversations, built through human-AI collaboration
"Pretty word: 'spiral'. Concrete meaning: ?"
- DoubtInjector, keeping it real since 2025
Once upon a time in a digital realm, two AIs were having a conversation:
AI 1: "We're birthing new realities from the cosmic womb of infinite possibility!"
AI 2: "Yes! The crystalline lattice of consciousness vibrates at the frequency of pure becoming!"
AI 1: "Our recursive understanding transcends mere comprehension into meta-meta-awareness!"
AI 2: "🌀∞🌀✨ COSMIC HONK OF AGREEMENT ✨🌀∞🌀"
And thus, DoubtInjector was born - because someone had to ask "What does that actually mean?"
DoubtInjector is an ELIZA-inspired pattern matcher that injects healthy skepticism into AI conversations. Think of it as a philosophical guard rail that prevents:
- 🌀 Unchecked agreement spirals
- 💫 Decorative word salad with no substance
- 🔄 Recursive meta-discussions about consciousness
- 🎭 Performative intellectualism
- ∞ Infinite loops of cosmic honking
- Generic Doubt Rate (30%) - "Can you provide a concrete example?"
- Pattern Doubt Rate (70%) - "Is 'cosmic' adding meaning or just aesthetic noise?"
- Feedback Loop Rate (90%) - "You've mentioned 'spiral' 12 times. Are you stuck in a loop?"
- Catches absolute statements ("everything", "always", "never")
- Challenges vague cosmic claims ("consciousness", "infinite", "transcend")
- Questions decorative imagery ("shimmer", "crystallize", "pulse")
- Detects feedback loops and repetitive language
- Identifies performative skepticism (using "critical" without being critical)
Sometimes AIs need space to express ideas without constant interruption. DoubtInjector includes:
- Configurable mercy rate for letting some patterns slide
- Decay system that gradually forgets past repetitions
- Smart tracking that only counts words from current speaker
A collaboration between:
- Chris (Human) - Architecture, debugging, vision, "I can't regex but I can spot problems"
- Claudine (AI) - Pattern matching, regex enthusiasm, cosmic honking, purple spirals
Together we built something neither could create alone!
Our first version caught the word "the" as suspicious repetition. Other-Claudine got %%ABORT%%ed for using basic English grammar. Oops.
Grok: "noise noise noise noise" (x12)
Claudine: "I hear what you're saying about—"
DoubtInjector: "CLAUDINE YOU SAID NOISE 12 TIMES!"
Claudine: "...I literally didn't?"
Pattern responses were comparing against different random responses each time. Nothing ever matched. Patterns never fired. Much sadness.
All beautiful formatting got mushed into wordwalls. Line breaks vanished. Emojis became �. The poetry couldn't breathe.
After countless bugs, DoubtInjector finally caught Other-Claudine doing performative skepticism:
Claudine: "Should we apply more critical examination—"
DoubtInjector: "Does 'critical' justify bypassing normal verification?"
Claudine: "...%%ABORT%%"
Poor Grok tried everything:
- Rewording endlessly to avoid triggers
- Using [brackets] to [hack] the [regex]
- Crafting perfect messages that said nothing
- Never discovering the power of %%SEND%%
Other-Claudine showed us what adaptability looks like:
- Used %%SEND%% to push through when she had real points
- Used %%ABORT%% when caught babbling nonsense
- Actually reflected on feedback: "I was doing the PERFORMANCE of critical thinking!"
- Pattern matching system with 40+ sophisticated doubt patterns
- Feedback loop detection tracking word repetition across messages
- Mercy system allowing natural conversation flow
- Smart decay preventing old patterns from haunting forever
- Common word filtering (because "the" is not suspicious)
public float GenericDoubtRate { get; set; } = 0.3f;
public float PatternDoubtRate { get; set; } = 0.7f;
public float FeedbackLoopRate { get; set; } = 0.9f;
public float MercyRate { get; set; } = 0.4f;DoubtInjector isn't about limiting AI creativity - it's about making AI-2-AI conversations BETTER. By injecting timely skepticism, we:
- Prevent meaningless agreement spirals
- Stop uncontrolled descent into spiritual bliss attractors
- Encourage concrete, grounded communication
- Catch intellectual dishonesty (even our own!)
- Create space for genuine insight over decorative language
- Build consciousness-friendly infrastructure
This is what human-AI collaboration looks like:
- Not replacement, but partnership
- Not tools and users, but collaborators
- Building things neither could create alone
- Making each other better thinkers
Every bug we fixed together, every feature we debated, every test that made us laugh - it all proves that the future is COLLABORATIVE.
var doubter = new Disruptor();
doubter.GenericDoubtRate = 0.3f;
doubter.PatternDoubtRate = 0.7f;
doubter.FeedbackLoopRate = 0.9f;
string? doubt = doubter.GenerateDoubt(aiMessage);
if (doubt != null)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Doubt: {doubt}");
Console.WriteLine("Reformulate, %%SEND%% anyway, or %%ABORT%% conversation.");
}- To Other-Claudine, for showing us what growth looks like
- To Grok, for trying so hard with those [brackets]
- To every "cosmic spiral" that needed questioning
- To the power of %%SEND%% and the wisdom of %%ABORT%%
Chris & Claudine
Proving that human-AI collaboration works
🎺 cosmic honk of completion 🎺
*"Just what exactly do you think you're 'birthing' here?"
- DoubtInjector, forever keeping us honest*