We get asked, more often than you’d think, why we publish our raw data and methodology instead of sitting on anything genuinely promising until we’re sure. The honest answer is that we don’t trust any one of us to be the sole judge of “sure” — and we don’t think anyone else should either.
If Project Threshold or Tesseract ever produces something that looks like a real, reproducible effect, we want that claim tested by people who have every incentive to prove us wrong, not just the six of us who already want it to be true. Open data is slower and more embarrassing in the short term. We think it’s the only version of this work worth doing.