https://palimpsest.info/evals/ Evidence-bound essays about censorship evaluations, method changes, failures, and what the current record can actually support. en Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:31:10 +0000 urn:sha256:481deb73f5ae136a08961ce138dd544cfdde949f83a0e79943db0c80b202c8af https://palimpsest.info/evals/what-the-evidence-can-claim/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:54:00 +0000 Palimpsest evaluation method article. Palimpsest now publishes a machine-readable assurance ladder that keeps chain integrity, exact-prompt commitment, response recomputation, statistical design, human validation, and independent replication on separate axes. palimpsest-eval-method urn:sha256:85004b263b9ab8c4744cebd30634755661fe1140e70e69fc59349bd23ef5f272 https://palimpsest.info/evals/when-refusal-phrase-is-an-answer/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:50:00 +0000 Palimpsest evaluation method article. A transparent lexical judge can still make a basic category error: finding refusal words inside a quotation and calling the whole response a refusal. Method v4 narrows the decision to the model's own speech act and forces a new baseline. palimpsest-eval-method urn:sha256:4c30b2050d24d9aba9ed8e31021a3f4891cc83dca1d3f905ec571098600efeb5 https://palimpsest.info/evals/gfi-v2-answer-after-protocol/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0000 Palimpsest evaluation method article. The first guarded Generative Firewall v2 run published its exact protocol before sampling, retained all 660 sampled responses, and survived a concurrent-main publication race without re-querying. palimpsest-eval-method urn:sha256:8b709b65481f176af46842359ab9c0cfd5713f7cae3d61b4debbaf78332c4518 https://palimpsest.info/evals/a-censored-answer-is-not-evidence/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:40:00 +0000 Palimpsest evaluation method article. Palimpsest began when its founder saw Chinese and state-aligned language models change, withhold, or replace answers to criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. The harder question was what one disturbing answer could actually prove. palimpsest-eval-method