The Fabrik Manifesto

L'existence précède l'essence.

Existence precedes essence. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Humanity will exist before it's given an essence, it exists and chooses. Machines are chosen, and then exist.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, and Samuel Crompton pioneered the fundamental machines that wove, scaled, and designed how fabric is created today. They assigned their machines a purpose, preceding the machines' existence, accelerating the industrial economy of their time. Man chose the fate of the machine before it ever existed.

Today, we're building Fabrik, the framework that assigns Agents their essence. An essence for something that will act non-deterministically in the open world must be forged where consequences are not real.

We forge it in a simulation — before an agent is ever conjured in the real world, it must be bound and made answerable, so that it can do what it was destined to do. Man must choose the fate of the agent before it acts in the real world.

As humans, we exist, and we choose. Agents will exist because we chose well. Fabrik is where the choosing is done.