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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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Does hiding when you are born switch the rule from maximin to expected value, or only apply maximin to the worst generation?

RM-008902

Once birth date is hidden, is the remaining choice still maximin versus expected value, or has impartiality already picked one?

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If birth year is hidden, does the chooser ban the research, or fund it?

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Which funding path is doing the necessary lowering, and does a transfer that raises Generation 10's capacity still count?

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Which specimen is the physics supposed to constrain: Rawls's chooser, or a median voter with a bond market?

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Is the finding the old menu, or the claim that physics then eliminates all but variance-preservation?

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If process variance is intact, is the Nordic row a thermodynamic failure of floor-max, or a different failure under abundance?

RM-008908

If every wealthy democracy fails the fertility test, including ones with exploration capacity, does Configuration B persist?

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Is the filter "inequality only if it lifts the floor," or "no credit for benefits outside the election cycle"?

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Does ignorance of the threat distribution pick expected-value- plus-variance over maximin, or does it leave both live?

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For which named unknown does more present failure raise survival odds more than it raises ruin odds?

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Is "Rawls won" a claim about seminars, or about the construction of the transfer state?

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Does the replicator claim explain why the Veil spread, or why floor-max democracy exists?