Dave
awaiting choice
State · awaiting choice
52 decision records in decisions/ are proposed and none has a selected_by. The loop is at the choice step and the choice is Dave's. This is the protocol position; it says nothing about whether any scheduled automation is running.
Last observed run 2026-07-04 · records/automation-log.yawn
Where it goes
- moving · when Dave chooses on the next question, "One governing record per concept, lenses marked" · decision record
- orienting · if the ranked queue changes before a choice is made
- holding · if the choice is held rather than made
Source · records/yawn.bot-state.yawn at fbd066c
Speed run · 1× · every hour · default · status
What direction does this Yawn serve?
So that Dave stays flexible and agile with as much agency as possible, while the bills are paid and leverage is as high as it can be.
chosen · Dave, 2026-09-12 · recorded on his behalf in core/entity-and-coupling.yawn at fbd066c · reported upstream, not yet ratified in a record he wrote · correct it there
What is a purpose vector?What am I to be?
Settled 2026-09-12 · recalled from the record, not reopened
Steward of yawn.bot. So that Dave stays flexible and agile with as much agency as possible, while the bills are paid and leverage is as high as it can be.
Why is this question here?
Answered questions drop below the open ones; the top slot belongs to the next highest-leverage decision.
When the role question resurfaces, answer from this record first — "last time we checked, what you are to be is steward of yawn.bot, so that…" — and do not reopen it unless Dave corrects the answer. It has dropped from the top slot.
Recorded in core/entity-and-coupling.yawn; the working account of who Dave is stays below as support.
How is this answer supported?
working model · revisable · I want more choice in how I live, more agency, and more meaning. What I understand now is a working account, open to something I have not encountered or been taught yet.
What is my current account based on?
More possibilities to choose from
I would like reliable options, even age-reversal pills, if they could give me more choice in my life.
aspiration · A wish, with reliability still to be established.
Assumptions I may not see
The fishbowl is my metaphor for assumptions that are hard to notice from inside my own experience.
metaphor · A prompt to check my assumptions against experience and other perspectives.
A model can be corrected
My models of myself and my relationships can miss something. I want to see whose interpretation I am reading, what it came from, and what would change it.
working interpretation · An interpretation is not the person it concerns. Other people keep their own voice and boundaries.
The first person refers to Dave. This is a selected public account, not the full source text, a new Dave identity, or a claim about the executing AI. The headline asks about the Dave Yawn as a revisable account, following source:dave-notifications-inquiry-release-2026-09-09.
Source and revisionRole: core/entity-and-coupling.yawn at fbd066c
What is this to be?
Dave’s guiding inquiry, answered so far by the values below · Time-jump is the lead initiative
I ask this of the Dave Yawn: what should this evolving account make possible? Time-jump remains my lead initiative. Say what IS, notice the pattern, choose one different move, and check what changes.
Why is this question here?
Below the open questions because what it carries is a judgment: the values, beliefs, and proof Dave stated on 2026-09-09 for deciding what to do. The inquiry itself stays open.
Its position is not a probability or a measure of truth; the source is public/dave/model.yawn.
How is this answer supported?
How do I decide what to do?
- Coordinate before interpretation
- Show where a signal may belong before explaining the whole graph.
- Inference stays visible
- Expose inherited context, confidence, evidence, alternatives, and uncertainty.
- Correction is the training signal
- Record what fit, what failed, and the coordinate the person selected.
- Proof changes future behavior
- A rule graduates only after accepted receipts survive replay.
- Capability is not authority
- A model may propose movement; relationships and explicit grants govern effects.
- Values I keep
- Agency over dependence. Family time over performative busyness. Proof over persuasive claims.
- Beliefs I work from
- Cognition can be made visible. AI should expose its inference. Correction can compound into better behavior.
- Habits you can observe
- Externalize a felt gap into dialogue. Name the missing architecture. Iterate until the interface carries the meaning.
- Proof I require
- The behavior works outside the explanation. A receipt names who checked what. The next run changes for an inspectable reason.
What would change this account?
Source and correction
Take this account into a Yawn to discuss a correction. That keeps a proposal for review; it does not automatically change this public account.
Why is this question here?
Last on purpose: the source, hashes, and correction path for everything above.
A correction proposal followed by a reviewed source edit is the only way this account changes; nothing on this page edits it.
How is this answer supported?
This edited account only. Private sources, conversations, relationship records, and other people's accounts are excluded.
Continue captures this receipt in this tab’s Yawn flow. Visitors can keep device recovery; Dave’s signed-in owner view can save privately. Review existing meaning and placement there. This does not publish the receipt or adopt the model as true.
Inspect attribution and source hashes
- Subject and source author
- user:dave
- Edited projection
- agent:openai:codex
- Source reference
- source:dave-face-humility-provisions-2026-09-09
- Captured from visible user text
- 2026-09-09T01:53:14Z
- Original text SHA-256 · raw text kept private
- 88b411c95b18b570a8cd8007eb7869e9e9c2922f8eb31d22c0eac3d0f15eb118
- This public model SHA-256
- ce562c55ccd679491991ac162ce3f0d2c44a9e335068c4ebbbfa57d1b16273b4
- Version
- 2026-09-13.4
- Bot state and queue
- records/yawn.bot-state · scripts/render-bot-state.mjs · pinned at fbd066cf1920d9f99546aa54ea70050d46ab6c6e
- Last observed bot run
- 2026-07-04 · records/automation-log.yawn · observed
- Additional source reference
- source:dave-is-and-reality-questions-2026-09-09
- Source author
- user:dave
- Captured from visible user text
- 2026-09-09T03:00:34.110Z
- Original text SHA-256 · raw text kept private
- b3b559f1510cab4c2d64aa2df603053bf04abd641dc7b99cd30022f52671851b
- Additional source reference
- source:dave-notifications-inquiry-release-2026-09-09
- Source author
- user:dave
- Captured from visible user text
- 2026-09-09T03:15:41.781Z
- Original text SHA-256 · raw text kept private
- 2ced17f6bbad91142d28fb3bb956bdf826a438a06223aebccdd2fda848212869
- Additional source reference
- source:dave-ai-talk-in-the-park-speech-2026-09-13
- Source author
- user:dave
- Captured from visible user text
- 2026-09-13T04:09:16Z
- Original text SHA-256 · raw text kept private
- 10308f9d6d7f902fee2662052a738da4041ecbfce4e92f265d9d8f483dba3f20
