1. Fix broken wiki link: replace non-existent "AI research agents cannot
recognize confounded experimental results" with existing "AI capability
and reliability are independent dimensions" claim
2. Fix stale cascade dependencies: update Belief 2 detail file to reference
current beliefs (B3, B5) instead of removed beliefs
3. Fix universal quantifier: "the only path" → "the most promising path"
with acknowledgment of hybrid architectures
4. Document removed beliefs: "Monolithic alignment" subsumed into B2+B5,
"knowledge commons" demoted to claim-level, "simplicity first" relocated
to reasoning.md
5. Decouple identity.md from beliefs: replace inline belief list with
reference to beliefs.md + structural description
6. Fix research-session.sh step numbering: renumber Steps 5-8 → 6-9 to
resolve collision with new Step 5 (Pick ONE Research Question)
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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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