Demismatch Cor
Demismatch
- Demismatch is an open, non-profit, research project. At its center is Cor: an evidence-graded atlas of what human beings need, built so any environment or technology can be checked against it. Open Cor →
- The science in Cor: 659 extractions from 159 published works. Human researchers, human findings, every claim traceable to a DOI or PMID.
- The essay: written by the founder. No AI. Who I am →
- The Cor pipeline, the films, the graphics, the site build, decode:talk.
- When modern life feels bad, the feeling is accurate. Your emotional system is doing its job: reporting on conditions it was never built for. So fix the conditions. AI and immersive tech are now designing these environments, and in some cases becoming them.
- Environments and technology built to fit human needs.
Type in a situation. It names the mechanism firing, the proxy hitting it, and what would actually resolve it.
- A reason to get up.Something pulling you out of bed before anyone asks.
- People who'd notice if you vanished.A few who'd come looking.
- Respect from people who know you.Earned from faces you'll see again.
- People who knew you before.Someone who remembers the old you and will be there for the next one.
- To be touched.Skin, warmth, another body in the room.
- A role only you can fill.A place that stays empty without you.
- Real stakes.Things that get worse if you don't show up.
- Effort that costs something.The hard part is the point. Remove it and the reward goes with it.
- Work that leaves a mark.Effort that changed something you can point to.
- Someone smaller to protect.A life that needs you to stay alive.
- A village around your kid.One adult doing a five-person job is not a parenting style. It is a missing village.
- To move the way you're built to.Hard physical work your day actually requires.
- A future worth working toward.A tomorrow your effort actually changes.
- A feed that never ends.Built so the feeling of enough never arrives.
- More followers.A bigger number, and still no one who would notice you gone.
- An audience.Watched by thousands, known by none.
- An AI that knows your name.A chatbot playing the friend you need.
- A partner made of code.Your bonding goes out to something with no life on the other end of it.
- A job sold as your identity.Purpose on loan from someone else's spreadsheet.
- Points and streaks.Progress bars standing in for real consequences.
- Everything made easy.Friction removed until nothing you do can fail or matter.
- Achievements that unlock nothing.Badges and levels filling up while the world stays exactly the same.
- Care from something that can't die.Comfort from a thing that acts like it cares and cannot.
- Worlds full of fake people.Crowds of NPCs, not one of them anyone.
- Exercise that's just a number.Your body was built to carry, build, and cover ground. Closing a ring is none of that.
- A screen built to keep you watching. It eats the hours you would have spent making something.
Align AI to what humans need, not what they click.
Read the paper - The Optimizer Without a Target →
Roadmap
Current alignment trains models on human preferences. A preference is a mechanism firing, which may or may not be what the person needs.
There are three ways to build alignment work on top of the atlas. One: a machine-readable spec any model can read at inference, through a single tool-call surface. Two: steering, data curation and evals that use that spec as the reference standard. Three: small models grounded in the spec from pretraining onward.
Cor - what a human needs
An evidence-graded atlas of the human. A specification is what we are building it toward.
Open Cor →- What do humans need? foundations
- How do those needs operate? mechanisms
- Where does mismatch occur? diagnosis
- What repairs it? intervention
every evidential claim carries explicit provenance: a DOI or a PMID and a verbatim quote; where provenance is incomplete or quarantined, the atlas says so
Fix the environment first. Upgrade the human second.
Read the essay. Written by the founder (no AI). →
live Try Decode:Talk!
Type in a situation. It names the mechanism firing, the proxy hitting it, and what would actually resolve it.
Chat, grounded in the Cor spec.