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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-010701

If the test is replacement versus attrition, which §IV rows are actually intake/exit series rather than function or output scores?

RM-010702

Do Brennan exits and Bar headcount carry the reproduction claim if the other §IV rows are only stress?

RM-010703

Is a partisan approval collapse after a contested judgment Trust-coherence pipeline failure, or output disagreement with the distinction still working?

RM-010704

Is Hungary a replacement-rate miss or a demolition that needs a different cell than attrition?

RM-010705

Can the risk map keep a capture cell and an attrition cell without the title treating demolition as a hiring shortfall?

RM-010706

Is a time series of the same five questions a different audit, or the per-decision audit repeated?

RM-010707

Can the motivating Bar case be graded, or does the repair rule wait on evidence the table admits it lacks?

RM-010708

Does the motivating repair need the five questions, or only the disappearance counterfactual?

RM-010709

Does buying sitting capacity count as the flow test recovering, or only as a stock patch after the pipeline failed?

RM-010710

Is the positive cluster retention-plus-purchase, and if so can it confirm a flow test?

RM-010711

Can Trust-coherence be audited as replacement-versus-attrition, or only as a population condition on the other classes?

RM-010712

What Trust-coherence measurement would move without Office and Contest numbers moving?