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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-006601

Pressing red is not causally inert at the threshold. When a vote is pivotal, blues live if that person presses blue and die if they press red. "Does not kill anyone" recodes an individual actuator as an aggregate. Weak dominance is about the chooser's payoff, not about others' deaths. The table leaves exact equality unspecified.

evidence_burden · causal_responsibility_at_pivot, equality_cell

RM-006602

"No cooperation surplus" and "universal defection produces universal survival" hold only if the non-switchable blue base is empty. A labelled base of people who press blue knowing it will fail is a hostage class red-pressers kill when blue loses. "Genuinely small" does not say which side of k=0 it is on.

scope_challenge · surplus_scope, base_as_hostage

RM-006603

Weak dominance is a one-person payoff claim. Broadcasting "press red" into a population already over 50% blue can move the aggregate through the threshold and kill remaining blue-pressers. "Survives under any distribution of beliefs" is true of one button and false of the essay as a population intervention.

implementation_attack · advice_object, interior_adoption

RM-006604

The matrix is dominance-solvable. An egregore as a Level-3 collective belief entity is a coordination-game object. The load-bearing remainder is either the pasted word "cooperation" or a stabilizer of misplay. The page asserts both and does not say which one would have to fail.

prior_art_overlap · egregore_status, load_bearing_layer

RM-006605

Independent-of-the-egregore is an origin test. After a non-switchable base exists, blue-presser death is a danger independent of this round's belief. The parasitic grade then attaches to the categorization that created the base, not to the button in a world that already has one.

scope_challenge · parasitic_grade_object, origin_versus_date

RM-006606

Exempting survival-as-terminal via physics and instrumental convergence uses a ranking rule that cannot fail if the second set (values allowed to beat survival) is empty. The honest case for blue is already that set: internal cost to the host's other replicators. The double scoring — personal cost, then survival as the platform those replicators sit on — is not a matrix fact.

self_application · survival_exemption, second_set