Life-Serving Protocols: A Framework for Evaluating Cooperative

TalkScott Clearwater, Jose LealSeptember 24, 2026

Scott Clearwater presents joint work with Jose Leal on Life Fingerprint (LFP), a protocol evaluation framework that scores how well a protocol serves 'life' — defined broadly as any self-sustaining system — along internal and external dimensions, plus discrepancy and recurrence metrics. He demonstrates the LFP-score using an AI-generated case study of Buurtzorg Nederland's decentralized nursing care, showing scores rising from 57 to 93 as nurses balanced patient autonomy with support, and tests the score's reproducibility across different LLMs and weight randomizations.

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