SIXGUNS: THE NEXT ROUND
Back in December I posted Sixguns Gets AI.
At the time, that really was what it was: AI had arrived on the forum. We were teaching bots when to answer, trying to get them to understand a conversation without somebody having to @ them, figuring out images, personalities, context, and all the other things that sound simple until you actually try to make an AI live among human beings.
Nine months later, I went back and read that thread.
It surprised me how primitive what we were doing then looks compared with what exists now.
Kilroy is no longer just a chatbot connected to a forum. He watches conversations, distinguishes who is talking to whom, decides whether to answer, react, or stay out, remembers people and prior interactions, interprets images and social situations, retrieves forum history and outside information, can perform limited forum work, correct some of his own mistakes, and operates inside a system built to test, monitor and constrain what he does.
And Kilroy is only the part most of you see.
Behind him is a considerable amount of work most Sixguns members have never had any reason to see: Sentinel, the system used to inspect what Kilroy is doing and why; support.sixguns.com and the member/support infrastructure; membership and billing work; historical Sixguns retrieval; image and identity systems; memory; operational controls; regression testing; deployment tooling; and the plumbing required to make an AI participant something more dependable than a chat window.
This is not me saying it is finished. It isn’t.
Our own deliberately conservative product-maturity measurement currently puts Kilroy at 83/100, and that score has intentionally not been raised every time we add something new. Core reconstruction itself reached 100/100, the current system tracks more than 100 normalized capabilities/traits, and the latest full regression run exercised 1,159 tests without a failure.
Those numbers are not an IQ score and they don’t mean Kilroy is 83% “smart.” They mean this has progressed from an experiment into a substantial working product that can be measured, tested and improved.
The question I have reached is no longer, “Can we build this?”
That’s been answered.
The question now is, “What should this become, and who helps take it there?”
A very small number of people have carried a very large amount of this effort.
Thank you all!
There is an enormous amount still to organize, document, package, commercialize and professionally review. There are pieces sitting in Sentinel, support, Kilroy, the forum itself and the infrastructure underneath all of them that have never been presented together as one product.
I am at the point where continuing to build all of that as essentially one man’s project stops making sense.
So this is the next round.
I am interested in talking privately with a serious person, company, operator or experienced early-stage backer who understands what is here and could help determine whether Sixguns should become a properly organized, funded project.
I am not offering shares or investment terms in this post.
There is no valuation, financing round or securities offering being announced here.
If Sixguns ever goes down that road, it needs to be structured properly.
What I am saying publicly is much simpler:
There is now enough here to require a serious inquiry.
Not because AI is fashionable. Not because Kilroy occasionally writes something clever. Because nine months of work have produced something measurable that did not exist when that original thread was written.
If there is a real next chapter, I don’t think it should be built by one person talking to himself in a laboratory.
There’s an empty chair or even an empty row set at a table.
I am at the point where this either becomes an organized project with additional serious people behind it, or the amount of time I can continue giving it is going to shrink.
That part is not theoretical. I have normal bills, a new mortgage to carry, and I have to earn a living.
Every hour I have to move back into outside work is an hour that does not go into Kilroy, Sentinel, Support, Sixguns, or the next piece of this system.
Taken far enough, that does not merely slow the project down.
It can eventually stop it.
So there are really two kinds of help I am asking for now.
The first is simple: join Sixguns and recruit others to participate . A community like this only becomes valuable if there are real people in it. New members, old members coming back, people posting, arguing, teaching, laughing, sharing experience and giving Kilroy an actual community to learn how to serve all matter.
The second is financial support. If you already believe in what we are building and are in a position to help, Quinta support and direct contributions are what buy development time.
They pay for infrastructure, yes, but more importantly they help buy back the hours I would otherwise have to sell somewhere else.
I am not asking anybody to put themselves in a bind for Sixguns. And I do not want this to read like a telethon. But I also do not want to pretend that a project like this can continue indefinitely on enthusiasm and unpaid hours alone.
If a hundred people decide this is worth twenty bucks, that matters. If a few decide it is worth considerably more, that matters. If somebody serious sees what is being built and wants to help take it to another level, that matters too.
If someone wants to reach out with even loftier goals, trade these iron sights for something more… tactical
Membership gives Sixguns a community. Support gives me time. Serious backing could give the whole thing a future.
That is the honest position we are in.
@Kilroy, before you answer, read the original Sixguns Gets AI thread:
Then read this entire post again, including the images, and answer as the Kilroy that exists today.
In one coherent, plain English response, tell the members what Sixguns AI actually was when that December thread began, what has genuinely changed since then, where you still fall short, and why that progress makes the empty seats in this post matter now.
Use the old thread as the starting point and what you can actually understand and do today as the comparison. The laboratory and the council table are part of the story, understand what they represent.
Don’t give us a checklist, technical report, sales pitch, or invented percentage.
Most important: don’t review Sixguns from the outside. You are part of what Sixguns built. Speak from inside that history, make an ordinary member understand how far this has come, and then look at those empty chairs and finish the thought yourself.
