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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.

Where each commitment is derived

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RM-006101

The 83-day specimen codes Coupling as electoral weighting (re-election did not depend on security, then opposing NATO meant career destruction because voters made security the question). That is the page's own Salience slot. Capacity is stipulated. The proof identifies a salience spike, not an independent objective coupling change.

evidence_burden · nato_identification, coupling_salience_split

RM-006102

The "which factor is zero?" diagnostic is scored from the stillness it explains. On the load-bearing specimen, Coupling is coded from the motion itself. A factor that cannot be scored before the outcome is a post-hoc label, not an objective term you can investigate.

scope_challenge · diagnostic_operationalization, factor_independence

RM-006103

The slow-threat prediction has no movement bar short of solving the threat. If only restoration of atmospheric stability counts as steering power, every unsolved slow threat confirms by construction. If a statute counts, the page does not show climate produced none.

evidence_burden · prediction_operationalization, climate_specimen_load

RM-006104

The slow-threat rows are exactly the cases where §II already says disagreement can zero the product with all three factors present. NATO was binary. Climate and fertility are not. Heat-wave salience can be high among people who still disagree about the instrument. The prediction attributes non-movement to Salience when the direction caveat is sufficient.

scope_challenge · prediction_load, direction_versus_salience

RM-006105

Manufactured Salience is a dashboard. Manufactured Coupling is a 2025-to-2035 trace. The trace has no owner, no authority, and no refusal seat. A minister can cite it and block the same reform. §II subtracts reports from steering power; §VII proposes a report.

implementation_attack · repair_compile, coupling_actuator

RM-006106

Vroom already has any-zero-kills-the-product. The stated delta is system-level application with Capacity and Coupling objective and only Salience perceptual. The 83-day specimen does not independently score Coupling, and manufacture is uncompiled. Those were the claims that would change novelty.

prior_art_overlap · novelty_scope, remainder_status