Belief framework restructured from 6 correlated observations to 5
independent axes, flowing urgency → diagnosis → architecture → mechanism → solution:
1. AI alignment is the greatest outstanding problem for humanity (NEW - existential premise)
2. Alignment is a coordination problem, not a technical problem (was B1, now diagnostic)
3. Alignment must be continuous, not a specification problem (was implicit, now explicit)
4. Verification degrades faster than capability grows (NEW - structural mechanism)
5. Collective superintelligence is the only path preserving human agency (was B3)
Removed: "simplicity first" moved to reasoning.md (working principle, not domain belief).
Removed: "race to the bottom" and "knowledge commons degradation" (consequences, not
independent beliefs — now grounding evidence for beliefs 1 and 2).
Also: added disconfirmation step to ops/research-session.sh requiring agents to
identify their keystone belief and seek counter-evidence each research session.
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