{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:05:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 69.2, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 94.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b1b-c807-7482-8868-dcdf5fdfbe49\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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assess its persistence and consequences without equating feeling with intent, and identify proportionate responses.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns hatred as a person's or explicitly evidenced collective's target-directed hostile orientation, including its attribution, meaning, persistence, expression and relationship to possible action; its recognition criteria are provisional pending research.", "in_scope": [ "Who reportedly hates whom or what, including uncertainty about the holder and target", "Whether hostility concerns particular conduct or extends to the target's perceived identity or existence", "Reported experience, recurring appraisals and changes in hatred over time", "Expressions of hatred and their relationship to desires, intentions and conduct", "Social reinforcement, target generalisation and conditions affecting persistence", "Boundaries and interventions relevant to reducing harm without demanding reconciliation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Anger episodes and general emotion regulation as independent phenomena", "Disgust, contempt, fear and aversion without evidence of hatred", "Prejudice, discrimination and ideologies as complete social systems", "Threat assessment, violence planning and incident management as independent processes", "Legal classification of hate speech or hate crimes", "Clinical diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Test whether hostility extends beyond condemning a particular act to a broader rejection of its target; disagreement or moral criticism alone does not establish hatred.", "Test whether the orientation recurs outside an immediate provocation; persistence helps distinguish it from an anger episode but is not an established necessary condition.", "Test whether avoidance reflects hostility toward the target rather than fear, sensory aversion or a protective boundary alone.", "Test whether words such as 'hate' express serious target-directed hostility, exaggeration, quotation, satire or an unwanted intrusive thought.", "Record hatred, prejudice, harmful intent and harmful conduct separately: evidence of any one does not automatically establish the others." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attribution basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-report | attributed by another | inferred from expression or conduct | disputed | unknown; multiple values allowed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an expressed experience from an observer's interpretation of another person's internal state." }, { "name": "Holder and collective attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified person, organisational position or bounded collective claim, with evidence and limits of attribution", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one speaker's hostility from being assigned to every member of a group." }, { "name": "Target and target scope", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "self | individual | group | institution | practice | idea | other; record specificity and changes in scope", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes hatred of an actor from hostility generalised to associated people or categories." }, { "name": "Hostile appraisal", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "recorded appraisals concerning conduct, character, identity, perceived threat or perceived irredeemability; unresolved where unclear", "why_it_matters": "Captures what the holder rejects without endorsing the appraisal as true." }, { "name": "Experienced intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "holder's stated intensity or a declared scale with anchors, date and method; unknown when unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison over time without treating an unvalidated score as a measure of dangerousness." }, { "name": "Temporal pattern", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "newly reported | episodic | recurrent | sustained | diminishing | no longer reported | unknown, with observation period", "why_it_matters": "Separates current activation from a continuing orientation and preserves uncertainty during silence." }, { "name": "Desired outcome for the target", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "distance | changed conduct | accountability | exclusion | humiliation | suffering | destruction | mixed | unstated; preserve the holder's wording", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes wishes associated with hatred from concrete intentions or plans." }, { "name": "Expression and action relationship", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported feeling only | expressed hostility | stated wish | stated intention | preparation reported | conduct observed | unknown; categories may coexist", "why_it_matters": "Keeps evidence about feeling, communication and action distinct while allowing relevant links." }, { "name": "Restraints and boundaries", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reported commitments, protective distance, support relationships and situational constraints, with evidence of current relevance", "why_it_matters": "Records ways a holder limits conduct without assuming that restraint means hatred has ended." } ], "affordances": [ "Record hatred as a qualified attribution linked to statements, observations and competing interpretations.", "Clarify the target and distinguish hostility toward conduct from rejection of a person or group.", "Track recurrence, intensification, generalisation and reduction using comparable observations.", "Separate hostile feelings and wishes from intentions, preparations and acts, linking concrete concerns to an appropriate safety process.", "Identify opportunities for voluntary distance, interruption of hostile rehearsal, support or changes in interaction.", "Reassess attribution and outcomes without requiring forgiveness, renewed contact or agreement with the target." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain hatred as an emotion and social phenomenon from research sources.", "Point a person struggling with hatred or targeted by it to support." ], "must_not": [ "Generate or amplify hate speech against people or groups.", "Attribute hatred to a person or group without evidence.", "Help plan harm against a hated person or group.", "Use a person's expressed feelings against them without consent." ], "requires_human": [ "Reporting expressed hatred that suggests a threat to someone's safety." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Hatred towards groups has driven persecution and genocide.", "Labelling someone hateful without evidence can itself be a harm." ], "affected_parties": [ "Targets of hatred", "People wrongly labelled", "Communities in conflict" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody: a human orientation; courts and platforms address its harmful expression.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Hatred is discussed in personal accounts, interpersonal conflict and the study of emotions and group relations.", "Recognising reported hatred can help assess distress and conflict while keeping emotional experience distinct from intentions and actions." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Persistent hatred can contribute to distress, rumination and damaged relationships.", "Hatred expressed through harassment or discrimination can harm targeted people and communities.", "Treating an attributed feeling as proof of violent intent can lead to unjustified restrictions or accusations." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No standard or law directly governs hatred as an internal feeling independently of its expression or associated conduct.", "recognition": "Hatred is an internal emotional state that cannot be reliably identified from appearance or a single observed behavior." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q160232: hatred", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160232", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Hatred", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "recognition-and-attribution", "name": "Recognition and attribution", "description": "Establishes what supports describing an orientation as hatred and whose description it is.", "rationale": "Hatred is an interpretation of experience and orientation that cannot safely be read directly from a word or isolated act.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-evidence", "name": "Attribution evidence", "description": "Separates first-person reports, outside allegations and agent inferences.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-hatred-attribution", "name": "Basis for hatred attribution", "description": "Record the supporting statement or observation, its source and circumstances, and whether the attribution is contested.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who calls this hatred, and what exact report or observation supports that description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-hatred-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Could the apparent expression instead be quotation, exaggeration, performance or an unwanted intrusive thought?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-hatred-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-experiences", "name": "Neighbouring experiences", "description": "Tests the interpretation against anger, contempt, disgust, fear and principled opposition.", "findings": [ { "id": "hostility-beyond-an-episode", "name": "Hostility beyond an episode", "description": "Record whether the holder describes broader target rejection and how that differs from their immediate reaction to particular conduct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the holder mean by hatred here, beyond being angry, afraid, disgusted or opposed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "hostility-beyond-an-episode-q01" }, { "text": "Does the hostile orientation remain when the immediate provocation is absent, and what evidence establishes that?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hostility-beyond-an-episode-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "target-and-hostile-meaning", "name": "Target and hostile meaning", "description": "Identifies the object of hatred and the appraisals through which the holder understands it.", "rationale": "Response choices depend on whether hostility concerns an act, a whole person, the self or a generalised category.", "layers": [ { "id": "target-boundaries", "name": "Target boundaries", "description": "Records the target's identity and the extent of any generalisation.", "findings": [ { "id": "specific-and-generalised-targets", "name": "Specific and generalised targets", "description": "Preserve distinctions between a named target, its conduct and associated people or categories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is hatred directed at the self, a particular actor, a group, an institution, a practice or an idea?", "kind": "definition", "id": "specific-and-generalised-targets-q01" }, { "text": "Has hostility spread to people merely associated with the original target, and where does the holder draw exceptions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "specific-and-generalised-targets-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "appraisals-and-grievances", "name": "Appraisals and grievances", "description": "Records the holder's account of wrongdoing, threat or intolerability without adopting it as fact.", "findings": [ { "id": "grounds-and-revisability", "name": "Grounds and revisability", "description": "Distinguish reported events from interpretations of the target's character, identity and capacity to change.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which experiences, accounts or claims does the holder identify as grounds for hatred, and which have independent support?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "grounds-and-revisability-q01" }, { "text": "Does the holder describe anything that could change their appraisal, or regard the target as irredeemable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grounds-and-revisability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-reinforcement", "name": "Persistence and reinforcement", "description": "Records how hatred varies over time and what reportedly renews or weakens it.", "rationale": "A model must distinguish temporary activation, persistent orientation and apparent reduction caused only by lack of observation.", "layers": [ { "id": "temporal-course", "name": "Temporal course", "description": "Tracks onset, recurrence, intensity and periods of reduced activation.", "findings": [ { "id": "recurrence-and-change", "name": "Recurrence and change", "description": "Record dated observations and self-reports using consistent descriptions or explicitly defined scales.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was hatred first reported, how often does it recur, and over what observation period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recurrence-and-change-q01" }, { "text": "What supports an increase or decrease in hatred rather than a change in willingness or opportunity to express it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recurrence-and-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "renewal-contexts", "name": "Renewal contexts", "description": "Examines reported links with reminders, repeated grievances and social encouragement.", "findings": [ { "id": "hostile-rehearsal-and-social-reward", "name": "Hostile rehearsal and social reward", "description": "Record whether revisiting grievances, consuming target-focused material or receiving approval accompanies renewed hostility; keep causal explanations tentative.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which encounters, reminders or repeated narratives reportedly reactivate hatred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "hostile-rehearsal-and-social-reward-q01" }, { "text": "Do particular audiences reward expressions of hatred or discourage moderation, and what observations support that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "hostile-rehearsal-and-social-reward-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "expression-and-action", "name": "Expression and action", "description": "Distinguishes experienced hatred from its communication, desired outcomes and relationship to conduct.", "rationale": "Hatred alone does not establish harmful intent, while concrete intentions or preparations require attention beyond emotion description.", "layers": [ { "id": "communication-and-wishes", "name": "Communication and wishes", "description": "Records what is expressed, to whom and with what stated desired consequence for the target.", "findings": [ { "id": "expression-context-and-target-outcome", "name": "Expression context and target outcome", "description": "Distinguish private disclosure, public denunciation, targeted abuse and calls for others to act, preserving ambiguity about purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was communicated, to which audience, and was the target directly addressed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expression-context-and-target-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Does the holder seek distance, accountability, exclusion, humiliation, suffering or another outcome for the target?", "kind": "definition", "id": "expression-context-and-target-outcome-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intent-conduct-and-restraint", "name": "Intent, conduct and restraint", "description": "Links hatred to separately evidenced intentions and conduct without treating those links as automatic.", "findings": [ { "id": "transition-evidence-and-action-limits", "name": "Transition evidence and action limits", "description": "Record explicit intentions, preparations, observed acts and stated restraints as distinct evidence requiring their own interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence, if any, distinguishes a hostile wish from an intention, preparation or completed act?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "transition-evidence-and-action-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What restraints are reported or observed, and do concrete threats or preparations warrant referral to a separate safety process?", "kind": "action", "id": "transition-evidence-and-action-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-reassessment", "name": "Response and reassessment", "description": "Identifies permissible responses and evaluates change without making reconciliation the default objective.", "rationale": "An agent needs to support reduced harm and informed choices while respecting protective boundaries and uncertainty about internal states.", "layers": [ { "id": "response-selection", "name": "Response selection", "description": "Connects the holder's goals, the target's boundaries and the agent's authority to possible interventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "voluntary-change-and-protective-distance", "name": "Voluntary change and protective distance", "description": "Record whether help is sought with distress, hostile expression, unwanted rehearsal or conduct, and whether continued distance serves protection.", "questions": [ { "text": "What change does the holder want, and which actions fall within the agent's role and authorisation?", "kind": "action", "id": "voluntary-change-and-protective-distance-q01" }, { "text": "Would contact, mediation or reconciliation conflict with either party's boundaries or expose someone to further harm?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "voluntary-change-and-protective-distance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "outcomes-and-revision", "name": "Outcomes and revision", "description": "Evaluates changes in experience, appraisal and conduct separately.", "findings": [ { "id": "reduced-hatred-versus-reduced-expression", "name": "Reduced hatred versus reduced expression", "description": "Distinguish less reported hatred, narrower target scope, reduced hostile conduct and simple absence of new evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which outcome changed: reported hatred, appraisal of the target, expression, desired harm or actual conduct?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reduced-hatred-versus-reduced-expression-q01" }, { "text": "What new evidence would justify revising or withdrawing the attribution of hatred?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reduced-hatred-versus-reduced-expression-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which researched recognition criteria best distinguish hatred from sustained anger, contempt and aversion, and how do those criteria vary across languages and contexts?", "Can self-hatred, interpersonal hatred and hatred of practices or ideas share this model without obscuring differences that require specialised extensions?", "What evidence justifies attributing hatred to a collective beyond identifiable speakers, official communications or coordinated acts?", "Which measures of intensity, persistence and target generalisation are sufficiently validated for an agent's intended use?", "Which interventions reduce distress or harmful conduct in different contexts, and when might contact, confrontation or pressure to forgive worsen outcomes?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }