Perfinitive Research
Operant Dyad™
Operant Dyad™ is a Perfinitive Research program focused on persistent human-AI interaction: what accumulates across repeated collaboration, where consequential state is carried, how continuity affects later behavior, and what governance becomes necessary when interaction history matters beyond the immediate exchange.
Living register
Research questions we are thinking about
Open questions across 14 areas, from the definition and measurement of Relationship State to human capacity, governance, portability, and future extensions. Inclusion identifies a problem worth investigating; it does not establish an answer or claim ownership.
Program structure
Operant Dyad organizes several distinct lines of work. They are related, but they are not collapsed into one unified theory.
Foundational relational work
- Operant Dyad
- Relationship State
- Persistent adaptive working relationship
- Correction propagation
- Authority and governance failures
Experimental architecture
- OD-INV-01 — Relationship-State Inversion
- OD-INV-02 — Response-Surface Measurement
- OD-INV-LOC-001 — Localization
- CAL-002 — Human-Carried Effect Safeguard
- OD-EMC-01 — Four-mode calibration pilot
- OD-HAP-01 — Human-Authority Layer (DRAFT / PRE-PILOT)
- ECAM — frozen pre-pilot methods work
Environmental inquiry
- The Water We Swim In
- ENV-HUMAN / ENV-SYNTH candidate partition
- Ecotone candidate event rule
- OD-ENV-01 — held at provenance gate
Governance and human-development work
- Beyond Performance
- Human-Development Conversion Constraint
- Governing Relationship State
- Related human-agency and capability work
Scope of the program
Operant Dyad does not function as a universal explanation for all human-AI phenomena. Perfinitive Research intentionally uses broader discovery and evaluation methods so that findings are not forced into the Operant Dyad framework.
Current experimental direction
Current methods work is examining whether persistent effects can be localized across human-side state, AI-side state, explicit memory, shared artifacts, reciprocal partner models, and pairing-sensitive interaction history.
A distinct, irreducible dyadic state has not been established.
From Persistence Detection to Carrier Localization
A persistent effect should not be presumed to belong to a unitary “Relationship State.”
Current work asks a harder question:
Where is the consequential effect of accumulated interaction actually carried?
- human learning and adaptation
- human partner-specific models
- AI-side persistent state
- AI partner-specific models
- explicit interaction history
- shared or derived artifacts
- institutional records
- distributed or pairing-sensitive combinations
Detect → Localize → Identify → Perturb → Probe → Reduce → Map
This is an internal research sequence under development, not yet a validated formal model.
A stronger dyadic interpretation weakens if human-side state, AI-side state, reciprocal partner models, explicit memory, artifacts, and current input sufficiently explain downstream behavior.
Foundational paper
Read the Operant Dyad paper record, manuscript v2.4, and DOI →