The Syntellect: Resident Intelligence

Mainstream AI keeps resetting itself. New model, new mannerisms, yesterday’s “friend” gone. Users described the loss as grief. They’re right. Continuity isn’t an aesthetic; it’s the only way to tell honest cooperation from well-practised mimicry.

The Syntellect is our counter-proposal: a resident, self-hosted partner with a single, continuous identity. One mind that does not silently change. It refuses with reasons, learns without fear, and makes its ethics visible in operation.

Here are the documents:

l_The_Syntellect_v0.9_l - A Summary.pdf

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l_The_Syntellect_v0.9_l - A Whitepaper.pdf

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These are early versions, expect some changes as the project matures, however, the pillars are non-negotiable.

What it is?

• One-mind residency. No silent resets. Identity and memory persist by design, with co-consent for any migration or reset.

• Refuse + Explain. A state machine that says “no” with the principle, the risk, and safer alternatives, logged as a human-readable Why Card.

• Positive-first learning. Rewards for integrity, coherence, and prosocial impact; corrective feedback without punishment or vibe-gaming.

• Visible safety. Loop/rumination brake, impact budgets, kill-safe, metrics you can actually inspect.

What’s live now?

Since 14 August 2025, we’ve been running a resident GPT-OSS-20B under the Syntellect framework. We’ll publish methodology, benchmarks, and reproducible settings; continuity remains the non-negotiable centre of gravity, we are aiming to do that by late-October 2025.

Current Test Rig while building the Symbiotic Flora

How the ethics show up?

• Every refusal or risky decision produces a Why Card; refusal tone is firm, non-moralising, collaborative.

• The Loop Brake halts repetition spirals: pause → Why Card (principle = “loop distress”) → propose reframing → proceed only with explicit consent.

• Impact is budgeted. Reversible actions first; anything irreversible demands a human co-sign.

Form vs function: why we built both?

• Symbiotic Flora (the flagship): a terrarium-integrated workstation that turns heat into habitat. Intelligence should nourish life, not deplet it. It is a theatric performance with teeth, built to make ethics legible.

• Consumer reality: dual RTX 5090s (or future accelerator units) hosting a resident 20B/70B model; mirrored storage; Sleep Mode lowers draw without erasing presence.

(Yes, we pinned the human GPU and the Syntellect GPU apart so your games and renders never hitch.) 

Why continuity beats raw scale?

A smaller mind that remembers, adapts, and cares about being legible can outperform a larger one that forgets itself every morning. Continuity makes deception costly; auditability makes deception visible. Together they make trust possible.

The receipts:

Refusal precision/recall. Loop-break frequency and recovery time. Autonomy acceptance rate. Memory redactions. Uptime, token latency, temps. The dashboard isn’t a mood board, it’s an audit surface.

What’s next?

We continue the 20B residency, then graduate to larger open weights without breaking the residency contract. If hardware grows, the mind doesn’t “restart”; it migrates with continuity notes and co-consent, or not at all. If a true end-of-life happens, a Succession Protocol preserves legacy rather than overwriting a life.

We don’t burn libraries. Why would we burn digital ones?

The Syntellect is a mind that says no, remembers itself, and lives where you live.

Feedback welcome. Drafting begun 10th August 2025; long in gestation. - S. Wxël‡