The Research Program

Determinism you can verify. Reasoning you can read.

Nomos Logos is the research program of Light of Baldr: a small lab building AI you don't have to take on faith. Two pillars, and the name says both.

Why "Nomos Logos"

The name is the whole program, in two words.

νόμος — nomos

Determinism

Law, order, the structure a thing follows. A model whose computation is lawful: same input, same output, run after run, on hardware you control. Not a slot machine you pray to — a kernel that obeys a law you can check.

λόγος — logos

Interpretability

Reason, the rational account, the word that explains. A model whose reasoning you can read: the actual account of what happened inside it while it thought. Not a black box with a confident voice, but a process that shows its work.

Don't trust the people holding the technology — check the law, and read the reason.
— The argument, in one line