Demismatch Cor

Demismatch

What this is
  • 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 →
What is human-made
  • The science in Cor: 610 extractions from 125 published papers. Human researchers, human findings, every claim traceable to a DOI or PMID.
  • The essay: written by the founder. No AI. Who I am →
What is AI-made
  • The Cor pipeline, the films, the graphics, the site build, decode:talk.
Why this matters
  • Modern life feels bad for most people, most of the time. That feeling is accurate. Your emotional system is doing its job. It is signaling about conditions it was never built for. So repair the environment. AI and immersive tech are now designing these environments, and in some cases becoming them.
The goal
  • Environments and technology built to fit human needs.
Humans need
  • 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.
Humans don't need
  • 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.Engineered to hold the hours you would have spent building something.

Align AI to what humans need, not what they click.

Read the paper - The Optimizer Without a Target → A wooden mannequin aiming a bow at 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.

Alignment builds on the atlas in three tracks: a machine-readable spec any model reads at inference through one tool-call surface; steering, data curation, and evals against that spec as ground truth; and small models spec-grounded from pretraining forward.

The source

Cor - what a human needs

An evidence-graded atlas of the human - built toward a specification.

Open Cor →
Built on the work of Darwin Bowlby Trivers Tooby & Cosmides Nesse Panksepp Dunbar Hrdy Sapolsky de Waal + more
It answers
  • What do humans need? foundations
  • How do those needs operate? mechanisms
  • Where does mismatch occur? diagnosis
  • What repairs it? intervention
17Foundations
15Mechanisms
610Extractions
65Researchers

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 hand, by the founder → A wooden mannequin building a small house, augmentation parts set aside. live Try Decode:Talk!

Type a situation; get the mechanism firing, the proxy hitting it, and what would resolve.

DECODE · TALK YOU I keep checking my phone when I’m with people I actually love. I hate it. I can’t stop. DECODE · TALK Your coalition monitor is running in the background. The circuit evolved to track where your people are. In a band of 50 you knew without looking. Now your coalition is scattered, and the only channel is the device in your hand. MECHANISM Coalition monitoring REAL INPUT Known people in shared space

Chat, grounded in the Cor spec.

Videos
Demismatch - The Film Watch on YouTube →
Cor - Academic Breakdown Watch on YouTube →