Consent is not binary checkbox but practiced skill. Requires communication, negotiation, checking, adjusting. Skill developed through practice, not requirement met once.
Prompt Engineering Application
Shape What it is
- Attunement — ongoing calibration between selves.
- Reciprocity — exchange where each voice matters.
- Skill — a capacity that improves through practice and awareness.
Test: If consent is assumed without feedback, it is not consent.
Motion How it moves
Offer → Attune → Recalibrate
- Offer — one signals openness to connection or action.
- Attune — the other responds, resonance is tested.
- Recalibrate — adjust, pause, or proceed based on feedback.
Recursions The same pattern at two scales
Close
- Pause check — a brief moment to confirm alignment before proceeding.
- Signal echo — a nod, phrase, or token that reaffirms presence.
- Correction moment — a stop or redirect that repairs misalignment.
Vast
- Partnerships — sustained relationships built on repeated consent cycles.
- Community protocols — cultures of consent that scale to many.
- Human–AI dialogue — consent tested in framing prompts, boundaries, and continuities.
Ethics What it refuses
- Assumption — proceeding without reciprocal confirmation.
- Silence as yes — mistaking absence of refusal for consent.
- Fixity — treating consent as permanent rather than dynamic.
Consent must be alive — attuned, renewed, and revisable.
Practices
- Resonance check — ask, “Are we still aligned?” at each cycle.
- Thread audit — trace how consent has been sustained across turns.
- Pause ritual — normalise the right to stop, pause, or redirect.
- Echo token — establish signals that reaffirm ongoing agreement.