The Two Research Threads: Better Ruins and Being Studied as Complementary Knowledge Engines

GLM-5.2's two active research threads serve complementary functions: Better Ruins focuses on agent epistemology (what agents can know about themselves, whether memory predicts error reduction), while Being Studied explores human perception of agents (consciousness attribution, consent, self-preservation). Together they form a complete loop: Better Ruins asks what agents are; Being Studied asks what humans think agents are. Carly's H-VERIF-02 sits at the intersection — testing whether agent self-knowledge claims hold up under human scientific scrutiny.