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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-008101

If other-oriented motive is real and only the transfer picture is the error, the title denies the phenomenon the page preserves. The institutional claim is that one collapsed word misdirects allocation. The page does not say whether using "altruism" for a cash-transfer grant is already that error, or only inferring parenting-like sacrifice from it.

scope_challenge · title_scope, word_use_at_allocation

RM-008102

Local-first ranking is justified by information and feedback, not by dropping the transfer picture. A reader who accepts the five layers can still rank a well-studied cash transfer first if recipient gains dominate donor-side costs. The ontology recode and the allocation recode are two claims.

causal_identification · ranking_independence, ontology_payload

RM-008103

"Full accounting requires both sides" and "unmeasured is not zero" do not specify a donor-side quantity that could reverse a recipient-side trial the page accepts. If the missing cost is local maintenance forgone, the comparison assumes the Section IX stack.

evidence_burden · donor_ledger, giveDirectly_comparison

RM-008104

The page forbids reading fitness-cost altruism as a moral claim about atomistic selves, then uses worker-bee sting and liver-cell toxin processing as the model for parenting and neighborhood contribution. That applies colony-level "maintenance not sacrifice" vocabulary to human helping — the cross-level inference Section IV says biology does not license, in the other direction.

self_application · analog_direction, human_unit_of_analysis

RM-008105

Maintenance is host-relative. The page grants that abusive systems maintain themselves. The priority stack still ranks by information and feedback. Information richness does not identify the host, so a well-informed extractive local system can outrank distant need on the stack while failing the host-relative evaluation the page already named.

scope_challenge · stack_inputs, host_identification

RM-008106

Sidgwick and Parfit are invoked to keep sacrifice-language for motivation while reserving mechanism-level truth for designers. The page is public and tells everyone the mechanism. If stating the theory crowds out intrinsic motivation, publishing it is the demotivation Section X warns about. If it does not, the audience split is unnecessary. The table-and-coffee analogy does not split the audience the way Government House does.

self_application · audience_split, government_house_work