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Corpus frame

The corpus applies one lens to many domains: what mechanisms produce the outcome? It shares four methodological commitments and one explicit directional commitment. Each linked page argues for its part; the links are derivations and disputes, not evidence inherited by every page. The directional commitment does not by itself settle system boundary, distribution, sacrifice, or institutional authority.

  1. Mechanisms are what act. Incentive gradients, selection pressures, feedback loops, and capital stocks produce the distribution of outcomes. Intentions, labels, official categories, and stated values are evidence about mechanisms, or are themselves coordination mechanisms. They are not causal substitutes. — Mechanism Realism · Only Selection
  2. The reference telos is sustained flourishing. The broadest achievable adaptive safety margin over deep time — not the continuity of any incumbent state, coalition, institution, or doctrine. A mechanism's own stated goal can still serve as a local proof obligation — showing that its incentives defeat even the purpose it claims is a bounded finding — but meeting that goal establishes nothing about the margin. — Flourishing Is Maximum Safety Margin
  3. Law, rights, legitimacy, democracy, markets, and sovereignty are mechanisms under evaluation. They are constraints, carriers, or proxies inside the analysis. None is a terminal value or a boundary of what is real. Treating one as terminal ends the mechanism search before it starts. Evaluation carries current function, replacement cost, path dependence, uncertainty, capture risk, reversibility, and who bears model error into the ledger. — The Stack · Mechanism Space
  4. Optimization is a system function. A civilization has to build, exercise, and revise metamechanisms that search mechanism-space, discard dominated options, install, observe effects, and repair under uncertainty. Not running that loop leaves margin unrealized, and that is itself the failure. No single component — analyst, model, or institution — is presumed to contain a global optimum; the capacity is a property of the system. — Telic Systems · The Three-Layer Architecture
  5. Uncertainty is preserved, not spent. Partial orders, binding constraints, unknowns, and residuals stay explicit. An unmeasured effect is not a favorable default. — The Compression Paradox · Cargo Cult Epistemology

Each essay bears its own evidence. Links carry definitions, derivations, applications, and disputes; they do not transfer proof. Criticism is answered on its substance.

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RM-006001

The thesis names a trap as last-resort support falling before a new stock is stable. That is a property of the calculation. Section I recodes pathologized behaviors as sometimes rational responses while saying the rules do not show every recipient adopts them. If the behavioral recode is not identified, "capability trap" is a withdrawal schedule, not a trap.

evidence_burden · trap_object, behavioral_claim_status

RM-006002

Housing First's platform is an address: wrap-around services attach to a locatable, rival good. Last-resort cash is a residual after means-testing. "Platform before demand" is a timing slogan that does not transfer the coordination function of the address, so the analogue does not identify an income-support actuator.

alternative_mechanism · housing_first_transfer, actuator_identity

RM-006003

The trap's instrument is last-resort means-tested toimeentulotuki. The 2017–2018 experiment tested a wider unemployment-benefit treatment. A small employment effect on that treatment cannot identify whether last-resort asset-and-earnings withdrawal is the binding constraint on the population the thesis is about.

evidence_burden · experiment_scope, binding_constraint_identification

RM-006004

One-for-one last-resort withdrawal against earnings is a classic poverty-trap rate. The page's claimed remainder is timing: withdrawal before the new stock is stable. Removing the ordinary adult €150 disregard is a rate change. Without a specimen where the same rate would not trap if timed after stability, the remainder is a rename.

prior_art_overlap · novelty_scope, timing_versus_rate

RM-006005

Terminal drift is local objectives consuming runway. The central test measures whether design preserves or consumes assets, attention, and short-term gains from formal work. Overseers who shipped the 2026 disregard removal can score toughness and fiscal tightness; they cannot score runway preservation unless a seat can refuse a reform that passes their local tests and fails the runway test.

implementation_attack · test_standing, overseer_scoring_rule

RM-006006

If by the time someone is on toimeentulotuki the stock has already been destroyed, and adult job-training returns are roughly 0–2%, last-resort withdrawal is operating on a remainder. The thesis would then be diagnosing a non-binding adult instrument while stating the binding layer is childhood.

self_application · binding_layer, adult_instrument_scope

RM-006007

Yleistuki is asset-blind; toimeentulotuki still means-tests assets and earnings. Building runway on the primary benefit still reduces last-resort support. Dual architecture can recreate the trap at the last-resort layer while the primary benefit looks unconditional. The page says whether this creates a trap depends on observed transitions, with no coding rule for when the stack is a trap.

implementation_attack · dual_stack_coding, yleistuki_scope