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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-013101

Are the predecessor failures one mechanism, or several leftovers sharing a family name?

RM-013102

After 1943, is the live problem still "purpose from mechanism," or "which signal, with players as referees"?

RM-013103

Is "same wall" load-bearing, or can the taxonomy stand without it?

RM-013104

Does applying Wiener's purpose-as-feedback to a state count as crossing, or does crossing require a physics-derived reference?

RM-013105

Is a state-scale feedback architecture with blank identity a crossing, a partial crossing, or a non-crossing?

RM-013106

Is a subsystem that can destroy the loop a design constraint, or an exogenous shock that does not bind the next design?

RM-013107

What conclusion does the lineage evidence: mechanism-governs-politics, or the physics-derived assembly they did not reach?

RM-013108

Is civilizational purpose a setpoint knowable in advance, or a selection caption written after collapse?

RM-013109

Can a survival filter specify what to grow, or only that some gardens die?

RM-013110

What civilizational target would have been as knowable in 1972 as 20°C is to a thermostat?

RM-013111

If the method is "derive from physics," is energy-throughput the closer physical variable, and complexity a recode of the goal?

RM-013112

Does a visible violation-bit close the player-referee recursion, or does it still need someone who treats the bit as ending the game?

RM-013113

Are courts and voters the external enforcer under a new name, or is there a visibility condition that flips without them?