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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-010301

Is the gate for unused diagnoses looking for a home, or for procedures that ship with no model?

RM-010302

Does "attach a model to the classification" identify the opening failure, or only the specimen's missing job?

RM-010303

Can the five questions be the same bottleneck for an unused diagnosis and for a procedure that never requested a model?

RM-010304

Can a missing job be the canonical case if the cost it would have caught is not shown?

RM-010305

Does "solved attachment" mean a mandatory inbox, or an answer duty if the number is set aside?

RM-010306

After splitting receipt from answer-duty, which one is the thesis's bottleneck?

RM-010307

If futarchy binds and still is not a cognition layer, is attachment the remaining work?

RM-010308

Does the native-language advantage of statute-graph findings transfer to unofficial consequence models?

RM-010309

What would show a counter-model becoming citeable rather than remaining a smarter PDF?

RM-010310

Can a ceremonial survivor with citations count as the prediction succeeding while the cognition layer still fails?

RM-010311

Is the 2031 claim only which offices live, or also whether their output binds a decision?

RM-010312

For one 2026 body, does 2031 survival come with a delayed or overridden decision, or only with citations?