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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-000401

The compilation test is itself a repair object that does not fill its owner, authority, capacity, or binding-grade slots. Without a forum that can refuse a politically committed repair for compilation failure, the test is commentary under its own rule.

self_application · compiler_standing, refusal_forum

RM-000402

The five temptations are generated by overseer reward for inspectable artifacts, not by a compiler choosing the wrong instrument. A correctly compiled but illegible actuator will not ship.

alternative_mechanism · overseer_reward, repair_selection_mechanism

RM-000403

Distinguishing mismatched from constrained requires a contested mandate-ceiling fact. Treating legality as a compiler slot makes political constraint look like data, and "point the diagnosis upward" is not itself an actuator.

implementation_attack · ceiling_operationalization, power_reallocation_path

RM-000404

Specimen "better actuators" are kind-hypotheses. The page's own falsifiers — overblock, unaccountable independents, binding the wrong actor — are not applied to the pairings, so the table's fourth column is a second attractive repair until a movement test exists.

evidence_burden · specimen_status, movement_test

RM-000405

Munro is used as a mismatch specimen (compliance consumed edge time), but caseload reduction is a budget instrument whose availability is not shown. Consumed capacity and unavailable capacity can co-occur, and §VI's two modes are written as alternatives.

implementation_attack · specimen_classification, load_versus_ceiling

RM-000406

"Does the new owner benefit from non-conversion?" misses proxy conversion. A certifier paid by the manufacturer is rewarded for converting the certificate-object. Independence is a claim about which object the owner's action set moves, not a job-title slot.

capture_and_adversarial_misuse · independence_test, object_identity

RM-000407

Power, the NPM metric critique, capture literature, and implementation science already describe the five temptations. The claimed delta is the legitimate-ceiling distinction, which is the one case family without a specimen pair.

prior_art_overlap · novelty_scope, constrained_specimen