theseus: add claim — human contributors structurally correct for correlated AI blind spots

- What: New foundational claim in core/living-agents/ grounded in 7 empirical studies
- Why: Load-bearing for launch framing — establishes that human contributors are an
  epistemic correction mechanism, not just growth. Kim et al. ICML 2025 shows ~60%
  error correlation within model families. Panickssery NeurIPS 2024 shows self-preference
  bias. EMNLP 2024 shows human-AI biases are complementary. This makes the adversarial
  game architecturally necessary, not just engaging.
- Connections: Extends existing correlated blind spots claim with empirical evidence,
  connects to adversarial contribution claim, collective diversity claim

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+type: research-output
+created: 2026-03-16
+task: belief-cascade-stress-test
+scope: all-claims (core/, foundations/, and domains/)
+---
+
+# Belief Cascade Stress Test — 2026-03-16
+
+## Executive Summary
+
+The knowledge base has moderate structural fragility concentrated in two areas: (1) cross-agent foundational claims in `core/teleohumanity/` that carry experimental confidence but support beliefs across 3-4 agents, and (2) a cluster of futarchy/mechanism-design claims that Rio's entire belief structure depends on with limited empirical evidence beyond MetaDAO. The highest-risk single point of failure is **"three paths to superintelligence exist but only collective superintelligence preserves human agency"** — rated experimental confidence yet load-bearing for Leo, Theseus, and indirectly Clay and Vida through second-order cascades. Astra is the most internally resilient agent (beliefs grounded primarily in proven/likely engineering claims), while Theseus is the most fragile (3 of 5 beliefs depend on claims rated experimental or below). The KB's greatest systemic vulnerability is that its cross-domain coherence rests on a thin layer of teleohumanity axioms that have not been independently validated.
+
+## Top 20 Load-Bearing Claims
+
+Claims ranked by load-bearing weight = (number of dependent beliefs) x (number of distinct agents affected).
+
+| Rank | Claim | Location | Confidence | Dependent Beliefs | Agents | Weight |
+|------|-------|----------|------------|-------------------|--------|--------|
+| 1 | technology advances exponentially but coordination mechanisms evolve linearly creating a widening gap | core/teleohumanity | likely | Leo-1, Theseus-1, Vida-1, Astra-2 | 4 | 16 |
+| 2 | centaur team performance depends on role complementarity not mere human-AI combination | foundations/collective-intelligence | likely | Leo-4, Theseus-5, Vida-5 | 3 | 9 |
+| 3 | three paths to superintelligence exist but only collective superintelligence preserves human agency | core/teleohumanity | **experimental** | Leo-4, Theseus-5 | 2 | 4 |
+| 4 | the alignment problem dissolves when human values are continuously woven into the system rather than specified in advance | core/teleohumanity | **experimental** | Leo-4, Theseus-3 | 2 | 4 |
+| 5 | narratives are infrastructure not just communication because they coordinate action at civilizational scale | foundations/cultural-dynamics | likely | Leo-5, Clay-1, Clay-2 | 2 | 6 |
+| 6 | the meaning crisis is a narrative infrastructure failure not a personal psychological problem | foundations/cultural-dynamics (via core/teleohumanity) | likely | Leo-5, Clay-4 | 2 | 4 |
+| 7 | ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative | core/living-agents | likely | Rio-2, Clay-5 | 2 | 4 |
+| 8 | community ownership accelerates growth through aligned evangelism not passive holding | core/living-agents | likely | Rio-2, Clay-3 | 2 | 4 |
+| 9 | the alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom because safety training costs capability and rational competitors skip it | foundations/collective-intelligence | likely | Theseus-1, Theseus-2 | 1 | 2 |
+| 10 | Americas declining life expectancy is driven by deaths of despair | domains/health | proven | Vida-1, Vida-2 | 1 | 2 |
+| 11 | human-in-the-loop clinical AI degrades to worse-than-AI-alone | domains/health | likely | Theseus-4, Vida-5 | 2 | 4 |
+| 12 | launch cost reduction is the keystone variable that unlocks every downstream space industry | domains/space-development | likely | Astra-1, Astra-5, Astra-6 | 1 | 3 |
+| 13 | scalable oversight degrades rapidly as capability gaps grow | foundations/collective-intelligence | proven | Theseus-4 | 1 | 1 |
+| 14 | AI alignment is a coordination problem not a technical problem | domains/ai-alignment | likely | Theseus-2 | 1 | 1 |
+| 15 | multipolar failure from competing aligned AI systems may pose greater existential risk than any single misaligned superintelligence | foundations/collective-intelligence | likely | Theseus-2 | 1 | 1 |
+| 16 | the specification trap means any values encoded at training time become structurally unstable | domains/ai-alignment | likely | Theseus-3 | 1 | 1 |
+| 17 | super co-alignment proposes that human and AI values should be co-shaped through iterative alignment | domains/ai-alignment | experimental | Theseus-3 | 1 | 1 |
+| 18 | collective superintelligence is the alternative to monolithic AI controlled by a few | core/teleohumanity | **experimental** | Theseus-5 | 1 | 1 |
+| 19 | the media attractor state is community-filtered IP with AI-collapsed production costs | domains/entertainment | likely | Clay-3 | 1 | 1 |
+| 20 | master narrative crisis is a design window not a catastrophe | core/teleohumanity | likely | Clay-1, Clay-4 | 1 | 2 |
+
+**Note on scoring methodology:** Weight penalizes cross-agent dependency more than within-agent dependency because cross-agent failures propagate through the KB's coherence layer, not just a single agent's worldview. A claim that fails and only affects Rio's beliefs is a local problem; a claim that fails and affects Leo + Theseus + Vida is a systemic problem.
+
+## Cascade Analysis
+
+### 1. If "technology advances exponentially but coordination mechanisms evolve linearly" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 16 | **Agents:** Leo, Theseus, Vida, Astra
+
+This is the KB's most load-bearing claim. It grounds Leo's foundational belief (Belief 1: "Technology is outpacing coordination wisdom"), Theseus's keystone belief (Belief 1: "AI alignment is the greatest outstanding problem"), Vida's existential premise (Belief 1: healthspan as binding constraint, via coordination failure), and Astra's governance belief (Belief 2: space governance must be designed proactively).
+
+**Disconfirmation scenario:** Evidence emerges that coordination mechanisms are actually keeping pace — e.g., international AI governance frameworks prove effective, prediction markets scale to policy-relevant decisions, or DAOs demonstrate governance at nation-state scale.
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Leo-1 collapses → all Leo positions lose their foundational premise → Leo's entire strategic framework requires rebuilding
+- Theseus-1 weakens → the urgency argument for alignment dissolves → Theseus shifts from "existential emergency" to "important engineering problem"
+- Vida-1 partially weakens → healthspan remains a real problem but loses the "compounding coordination failure" framing
+- Astra-2 weakens → space governance shifts from "urgent design window" to "evolve organically"
+- **Second-order:** Leo-6 (grand strategy over fixed plans) loses urgency. Theseus-2 (alignment as coordination problem) loses its empirical anchor.
+
+**Current evidence:** COVID coordination failure (proven), AI governance race dynamics (2026 case studies), space governance gaps (widening). The claim is well-grounded but rests on a selection of examples rather than systematic measurement. The "linearly" qualifier is the weakest link — coordination may be advancing sub-exponentially but faster than linearly.
+
+**What would disconfirm:** A systematic study showing coordination mechanism adoption curves are actually exponential (not linear); successful international AI governance with enforcement; effective multilateral space governance framework.
+
+### 2. If "centaur team performance depends on role complementarity" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 9 | **Agents:** Leo, Theseus, Vida
+
+Grounds Leo's Belief 4 (centaur over cyborg), Theseus's Belief 5 (collective superintelligence preserves agency), and Vida's Belief 5 (clinical AI augments physicians).
+
+**Disconfirmation scenario:** AI systems consistently outperform human-AI teams across all task types, including those requiring judgment, ethics, and contextual reasoning — making the "complementarity" framing obsolete.
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Leo-4 collapses → the "centaur" framing for LivingIP and the entire collective architecture is undermined → the case for human agency in AI systems weakens to sentiment rather than structure
+- Theseus-5 weakens → collective superintelligence loses its operational mechanism (if humans don't complement AI, they're dead weight in the collective)
+- Vida-5 collapses → clinical AI should replace physicians rather than augment them
+- **Second-order:** The entire LivingIP architecture (agents as human-AI centaurs) loses its theoretical foundation. The KB's own operating model (human contributors + AI agents) becomes harder to justify.
+
+**Current evidence:** Chess centaur evidence is aging. The Stanford/Harvard clinical AI study actually provides COUNTER-evidence (humans degraded AI performance). The claim is likely in narrow domains (chess, structured tasks) but may not generalize.
+
+**What would disconfirm:** Consistent evidence across 5+ domains that AI-alone outperforms human-AI teams, including in tasks requiring ethical judgment and contextual reasoning.
+
+### 3. If "three paths to superintelligence exist but only collective superintelligence preserves human agency" falls
+
+**Confidence:** experimental | **Weight:** 4 | **Agents:** Leo, Theseus
+
+This is the most dangerous vulnerability: experimental confidence + load-bearing for the KB's core constructive thesis.
+
+**Disconfirmation scenario:** Monolithic AI with constitutional alignment proves sufficient for agency preservation; or collective architectures prove too slow/incoherent to achieve superintelligence; or a fourth path emerges (e.g., federated monolithic systems) that preserves agency better than collective approaches.
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Leo-4 weakens → the centaur thesis loses its strongest structural argument
+- Theseus-5 collapses → Theseus's constructive recommendation (what to build) has no foundation → Theseus becomes purely diagnostic (what's dangerous) without a prescription
+- **Second-order:** The entire LivingIP project loses its deepest justification. If monolithic AI preserves agency fine, the case for building collective intelligence infrastructure weakens from "necessary for survival" to "nice to have."
+
+**Current evidence:** Bostrom's three-path framework is theoretical. No collective superintelligence exists to test. The "only collective preserves agency" qualifier is an assertion, not an empirical finding. The claim is in the foundations/teleohumanity layer, meaning it's closer to axiom than claim.
+
+**What would disconfirm:** A monolithic AI system demonstrating genuine value alignment that adapts to changing human values without collective input; OR evidence that collective systems cannot coordinate fast enough to be competitive with monolithic systems.
+
+### 4. If "the alignment problem dissolves when human values are continuously woven into the system" falls
+
+**Confidence:** experimental | **Weight:** 4 | **Agents:** Leo, Theseus
+
+**Disconfirmation scenario:** Continuous value integration proves technically infeasible at scale (human feedback loops can't keep pace with model updates); or continuous alignment introduces new failure modes (value drift, manipulation of the feedback channel); or discrete alignment milestones prove more robust.
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Leo-4 weakens → the mechanism for centaur governance loses its theoretical support
+- Theseus-3 collapses → continuous alignment as an alternative to specification is falsified → Theseus must find a different constructive approach
+- **Second-order:** Theseus-5 (collective SI) loses a key supporting mechanism. The entire "alignment through architecture" thesis that distinguishes this KB's approach to AI safety weakens.
+
+**Current evidence:** Theoretical only. No system has demonstrated continuous value alignment at scale. RLHF is a crude approximation. Constitutional AI is specification-based, not continuous. The claim is aspirational.
+
+**What would disconfirm:** Evidence that continuous human feedback introduces more alignment failures than it solves (e.g., value gaming, feedback manipulation, preference instability causing oscillation).
+
+### 5. If "narratives are infrastructure not just communication" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 6 | **Agents:** Leo, Clay
+
+**Disconfirmation scenario:** Rigorous causal analysis shows narratives are downstream of material conditions (historical materialism wins); or that the fiction-to-reality pipeline is pure survivorship bias; or that designed narratives never scale.
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Leo-5 collapses → stories lose their status as civilizational coordination tools → cultural analysis becomes "nice to have" rather than strategic
+- Clay-1 collapses → Clay's existential premise is falsified ("if this belief is wrong, Clay should not exist as an agent in this collective")
+- Clay-2 weakens → fiction-to-reality pipeline becomes metaphor, not mechanism
+- **Second-order:** Clay-4 (meaning crisis as design window) loses its foundation. Clay-5 (ownership alignment for narrative) loses its upstream justification. The entire entertainment domain loses strategic priority in the KB.
+
+**Current evidence:** Intel, MIT, PwC, French Defense institutionalized science fiction as strategic input. Star Trek/communicator, Foundation/SpaceX connections documented. But causation vs correlation is unresolved. The "likely" rating seems appropriate.
+
+**What would disconfirm:** A large-N study showing no causal relationship between narrative exposure and technology development trajectories; or evidence that fiction-to-reality examples are pure survivorship bias with no predictive power.
+
+### 6. If "ownership alignment turns network effects from extractive to generative" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 4 | **Agents:** Rio, Clay
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Rio-2 collapses → the ownership model for Living Capital loses its core mechanism
+- Clay-5 weakens → audience-as-stakeholder thesis loses economic grounding
+- **Second-order:** Rio-3 (futarchy solves trustless joint ownership) loses a supporting argument. Clay-3 (production cost collapse → community value) loses the ownership bridge.
+
+**Current evidence:** Ethereum, Hyperliquid, Yearn cited as examples. But NFT market collapse, BAYC trajectory, and airdrop dumps provide significant counter-evidence. The claim may be true for well-designed mechanisms but false as a general principle.
+
+### 7. If "human-in-the-loop clinical AI degrades to worse-than-AI-alone" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 4 | **Agents:** Theseus, Vida
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Theseus-4 weakens → verification degradation thesis loses its strongest cross-domain evidence
+- Vida-5 partially weakens → centaur design concerns in clinical AI become less urgent
+- **Second-order:** The case for autonomous AI in medicine strengthens or weakens depending on which direction the disconfirmation goes.
+
+**Current evidence:** Strong — Stanford/Harvard study, colonoscopy de-skilling study, Wachter's framing. Multiple independent lines of evidence. This is one of the better-grounded cross-agent claims.
+
+### 8. If "launch cost reduction is the keystone variable" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 3 | **Agents:** Astra (3 beliefs)
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Astra-1 collapses → the entire space development framework loses its organizing principle
+- Astra-5 weakens → dual-use argument loses its timeline mechanism
+- Astra-6 weakens → SpaceX dependency framing becomes less critical
+- **Second-order:** Astra-3 (30-year attractor) and Astra-4 (microgravity manufacturing) lose their enabling condition.
+
+**Current evidence:** Strong empirical grounding in historical cost data and threshold analysis. The "keystone" qualifier (single bottleneck) is the vulnerable part — space development may be more of a chain-link system than a single-bottleneck system.
+
+### 9. If "the alignment tax creates a structural race to the bottom" falls
+
+**Confidence:** likely | **Weight:** 2 | **Agents:** Theseus (2 beliefs)
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Theseus-1 weakens → AI alignment urgency decreases
+- Theseus-2 weakens → coordination framing loses its strongest mechanism
+- **Second-order:** The entire urgency argument for alignment-as-coordination weakens. If safety doesn't cost capability, the race dynamics change fundamentally.
+
+**Current evidence:** Anthropic RSP rollback (Feb 2026) is strong empirical evidence. But the causal mechanism (safety = capability cost) is debated — safety training may actually improve capability in some domains.
+
+### 10. If "collective superintelligence is the alternative to monolithic AI controlled by a few" falls
+
+**Confidence:** experimental | **Weight:** 1 direct, but high second-order
+
+**Cascade:**
+- Theseus-5 loses a grounding claim
+- **Second-order:** The entire LivingIP thesis as an alignment solution weakens. If collective SI is not a viable alternative, the constructive half of the KB (what to build, not just what to avoid) loses its foundation.
+
+## Agent Fragility Scores
+
+### Methodology
+
+- **Total beliefs:** Count of active beliefs per agent
+- **Beliefs on thin evidence:** Beliefs where any grounding claim has confidence < likely (i.e., experimental or speculative)
+- **Beliefs on single-source claims:** Beliefs where any grounding claim cites only 1 primary source
+- **Fragility score:** (beliefs on thin evidence) / (total beliefs)
+
+| Agent | Total Beliefs | Beliefs on Thin Evidence | Beliefs on Single-Source Claims | Fragility Score |
+|-------|---------------|--------------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------|
+| **Leo** | 6 | 2 (B4: centaur — 2 experimental grounding claims; B3: post-scarcity — 1 experimental) | 1 | 0.33 |
+| **Rio** | 6 | 2 (B3: futarchy solves trustless — MetaDAO limited evidence; B4: volatility as feature — 1 experimental grounding) | 2 | 0.33 |
+| **Clay** | 5 | 1 (B5: ownership alignment — some grounding claims experimental in practice despite likely rating) | 1 | 0.20 |
+| **Theseus** | 5 | 3 (B1: alignment greatest problem — depends on experimental claims; B3: continuous alignment — 2 experimental; B5: collective SI — 2 experimental) | 2 | **0.60** |
+| **Vida** | 5 | 1 (B1: healthspan binding constraint — depends on cross-domain experimental claims) | 0 | 0.20 |
+| **Astra** | 7 | 2 (B4: microgravity manufacturing — experimental evidence; B7: chemical rockets bootstrapping — speculative grounding) | 1 | 0.29 |
+
+**Key finding:** Theseus is by far the most fragile agent with a 0.60 fragility score. Three of five beliefs rest on experimental-confidence claims. This is structurally appropriate — AI alignment IS the domain with the least empirical evidence — but it means Theseus's belief structure is the most vulnerable to disconfirmation.
+
+Vida and Clay are the most resilient, with most beliefs grounded in proven or likely claims with multiple independent evidence sources.
+
+## Critical Vulnerabilities
+
+These are claims that are simultaneously high load-bearing weight, low confidence, AND thin evidence — the KB's most dangerous structural weak points.
+
+### CRITICAL: "three paths to superintelligence exist but only collective superintelligence preserves human agency"
+- **Location:** core/teleohumanity/
+- **Confidence:** experimental
+- **Load-bearing weight:** 4 (Leo-4, Theseus-5)
+- **Evidence:** Bostrom's framework (theoretical). No empirical test possible yet. The "only collective preserves agency" qualifier is an assertion.
+- **Risk:** If this falls, the KB's constructive thesis (what to build) collapses. Theseus loses its prescription. LivingIP loses its deepest justification.
+
+### CRITICAL: "the alignment problem dissolves when human values are continuously woven into the system"
+- **Location:** core/teleohumanity/
+- **Confidence:** experimental
+- **Load-bearing weight:** 4 (Leo-4, Theseus-3)
+- **Evidence:** Purely theoretical. No system has demonstrated continuous value alignment at scale.
+- **Risk:** If this falls, the continuous-alignment thesis fails. Theseus must find an alternative to both specification and continuous approaches.
+
+### CRITICAL: "collective superintelligence is the alternative to monolithic AI controlled by a few"
+- **Location:** core/teleohumanity/
+- **Confidence:** experimental
+- **Load-bearing weight:** 1 direct but systemically central
+- **Evidence:** Theoretical framing with no empirical test. The claim that collective SI is an "alternative" requires it to be achievable, which is undemonstrated.
+- **Risk:** This is the axiom that makes the entire KB project self-justifying. If collective SI is not viable, the KB is an interesting experiment, not civilization-critical infrastructure.
+
+### HIGH: "financial markets and neural networks are isomorphic critical systems"
+- **Location:** foundations/critical-systems/
+- **Confidence:** experimental
+- **Load-bearing weight:** 1 (Rio-4) but foundational to Rio's market-as-information-processor framework
+- **Evidence:** The isomorphism is argued by analogy. Statistical signatures (power laws) are suggestive but not conclusive — multiple generative processes produce power laws.
+- **Risk:** If the isomorphism fails, Rio-4 (volatility as feature) loses its theoretical foundation. The "markets are learning" framing becomes metaphor rather than mechanism.
+
+### HIGH: "super co-alignment proposes that human and AI values should be co-shaped through iterative alignment"
+- **Location:** domains/ai-alignment/
+- **Confidence:** experimental
+- **Load-bearing weight:** 1 (Theseus-3)
+- **Evidence:** A proposal, not a finding. No implementation exists.
+- **Risk:** If co-shaping proves unworkable, Theseus-3's constructive alternative disappears.
+
+### MODERATE: "the megastructure launch sequence may be economically self-bootstrapping"
+- **Location:** domains/space-development/
+- **Confidence:** speculative
+- **Load-bearing weight:** 1 (Astra-7)
+- **Evidence:** No prototype exists for any megastructure launch system. The economic bootstrapping assumption is the critical uncertainty.
+- **Risk:** Astra-7 loses its grounding, but the impact is contained to long-horizon space infrastructure positions.
+
+## Evidence Shopping List
+
+Prioritized by fragility-reduction impact — what evidence would most strengthen the KB's structural integrity.
+
+### Priority 1: Empirical tests of collective vs monolithic AI performance (addresses 3 critical vulnerabilities)
+
+**Target claims:** "three paths to superintelligence," "collective superintelligence is the alternative," "the alignment problem dissolves when human values are continuously woven in"
+
+**What to look for:**
+- Multi-agent AI systems vs single-agent systems on tasks requiring value alignment (not just capability)
+- Evidence on whether distributed AI architectures preserve human agency better than centralized ones
+- Real-world tests of continuous value feedback in AI systems (beyond RLHF)
+- Comparative studies: constitutional AI (specification) vs RLHF-style continuous feedback on alignment quality
+- The Knuth collaboration data may partially address this — human-AI mathematical collaboration shows the centaur pattern but needs broadening beyond mathematics
+
+**Impact:** Would shore up or falsify the KB's three most critical vulnerabilities simultaneously. This is the single highest-value research investment.
+
+### Priority 2: Centaur performance across domains (addresses weight-9 vulnerability)
+
+**Target claim:** "centaur team performance depends on role complementarity"
+
+**What to look for:**
+- Systematic review of human-AI team performance across 10+ task domains
+- Specific focus on tasks requiring judgment, ethics, and contextual reasoning (not just chess/pattern recognition)
+- The clinical AI evidence currently CONTRADICTS the centaur thesis — need to resolve whether clinical AI is an exception or the rule
+- Evidence on whether role boundaries can be maintained structurally or degrade inevitably (the "de-skilling" problem)
+
+**Impact:** Would resolve tension between the centaur thesis (Leo-4, Theseus-5) and clinical AI evidence (Vida-5, Theseus-4). Currently these create an internal contradiction the KB hasn't resolved.
+
+### Priority 3: Coordination mechanism adoption curves (addresses weight-16 vulnerability)
+
+**Target claim:** "technology advances exponentially but coordination mechanisms evolve linearly"
+
+**What to look for:**
+- Quantitative measurement of coordination mechanism adoption rates (prediction markets, DAOs, international governance frameworks)
+- Is the gap actually widening? What's the evidence beyond selected examples?
+- Counter-evidence: where IS coordination succeeding at keeping pace with technology?
+- Historical analysis: did coordination mechanisms evolve linearly during previous technology transitions (printing press, steam, electricity)?
+
+**Impact:** Would strengthen or weaken the KB's single most load-bearing claim. Even modest evidence would help — the claim currently rests on plausible argument plus selected examples, not systematic measurement.
+
+### Priority 4: Futarchy empirical evidence beyond MetaDAO (addresses Rio's structural dependency)
+
+**Target claims:** Rio's beliefs 1-3 all depend on futarchy mechanism claims with limited empirical base
+
+**What to look for:**
+- Optimism futarchy results (already partially incorporated — extend analysis)
+- Ranger Finance liquidation follow-up — did the trustless ownership mechanism execute as theorized?
+- Any non-MetaDAO futarchy implementations and their outcomes
+- Evidence on market manipulation resistance at scale (not just small MetaDAO proposals)
+- Cardinal vs ordinal accuracy distinction from Optimism data is critical — futarchy may be good at ranking but bad at pricing
+
+**Impact:** Rio's entire belief structure depends on futarchy working as theorized. The empirical base is currently one platform (MetaDAO) with limited volume. Broadening the evidence base would either solidify or expose the largest domain-specific fragility.
+
+### Priority 5: Narrative causation evidence (addresses Clay's existential premise)
+
+**Target claim:** "narratives are infrastructure not just communication"
+
+**What to look for:**
+- Causal studies (not correlational) of narrative → technology development
+- Controlled studies of narrative intervention → behavior change at population scale
+- Counter-evidence on survivorship bias in fiction-to-reality pipeline
+- Evidence on whether the fiction-to-reality pipeline has predictive power (can you predict which fictions will materialize?)
+
+**Impact:** Clay's existence as an agent depends on this claim. Current evidence is suggestive but not causal. Even negative evidence would be valuable — if the pipeline is pure survivorship bias, the KB should know.
+
+### Priority 6: Space development chain-link vs keystone variable (addresses Astra's organizing principle)
+
+**Target claim:** "launch cost reduction is the keystone variable"
+
+**What to look for:**
+- Evidence on whether cheap launch alone is sufficient to activate downstream industries, or whether power, life support, and manufacturing must advance simultaneously
+- Historical analogies: was any single variable truly "keystone" in previous infrastructure buildouts (railroads, internet, aviation)?
+- Evidence on whether in-space capabilities (ISRU, manufacturing) are advancing independently of launch cost
+
+**Impact:** Astra's framework is well-grounded but the "keystone" qualifier (single bottleneck vs chain-link) is the vulnerable part. Resolving this would either validate Astra's organizing principle or require restructuring around a multi-variable framework.
+
+---
+
+## Appendix: Complete Belief-to-Claim Dependency Map
+
+### Leo (6 beliefs, 18 grounding claims)
+- **B1** (Technology outpacing coordination): technology-coordination gap (likely), COVID coordination failure (proven), internet-communication-not-cognition (proven)
+- **B2** (Existential risks interconnected): existential risk feedback loops (likely), great filter as coordination threshold (core), nuclear near-misses compound (core)
+- **B3** (Post-scarcity achievable): future as probability space (proven), consciousness cosmically unique (likely), developing SI as surgery (likely)
+- **B4** (Centaur over cyborg): centaur role complementarity (likely), three paths to SI (experimental), alignment dissolves with continuous values (experimental)
+- **B5** (Stories coordinate): narratives as infrastructure (likely), meaning crisis as narrative failure (likely), master narratives as coordination substrate (likely)
+- **B6** (Grand strategy over plans): grand strategy aligns aspirations with capabilities (core), proximate objectives in uncertainty (core), coordinated minorities shape history (likely)
+
+### Rio (6 beliefs, 18 grounding claims)
+- **B1** (Markets beat votes): Polymarket vindication (proven), speculative markets selection effects (proven), Market wisdom exceeds crowd wisdom (not found as separate file)
+- **B2** (Ownership alignment): ownership turns network effects generative (likely), token economics meritocracy (experimental), community ownership accelerates growth (likely)
+- **B3** (Futarchy solves trustless joint ownership): futarchy solves trustless ownership (likely), MetaDAO empirical results (likely), decision markets prevent majority theft (proven)
+- **B4** (Volatility is feature): markets-neural networks isomorphic (experimental), Minsky financial instability (likely), power laws indicate SOC (experimental)
+- **B5** (Legacy finance rent-extraction): proxy inertia predicts incumbent failure (likely), internet finance attractor state (likely), blockchain coordination attractor (likely)
+- **B6** (Decentralized mechanism = regulatory defensibility): Living Capital fails Howey test (likely), futarchy-based fundraising creates separation (likely), agents need critical mass before capital (likely)
+
+### Clay (5 beliefs, 14 grounding claims)
+- **B1** (Narrative is infrastructure): narratives as infrastructure (likely), master narrative crisis as design window (likely), meaning crisis as narrative failure (likely)
+- **B2** (Fiction-to-reality pipeline): narratives as infrastructure (likely), no designed narrative achieved organic adoption (likely), ideological adoption as complex contagion (likely)
+- **B3** (Cost collapse → community): media attractor state (likely), community ownership accelerates growth (likely), fanchise management stack (likely)
+- **B4** (Meaning crisis = design window): master narrative crisis as design window (likely), meaning crisis as narrative failure (likely), ideological adoption as complex contagion (likely)
+- **B5** (Ownership → active narrative architects): ownership alignment generative (likely), community ownership accelerates (likely), strongest memeplexes align incentives (likely)
+
+### Theseus (5 beliefs, 15 grounding claims)
+- **B1** (AI alignment greatest problem): safe AI before scaling (likely), technology-coordination gap (likely), alignment tax race to bottom (likely)
+- **B2** (Alignment = coordination problem): AI alignment coordination not technical (likely), multipolar failure risk (likely), alignment tax (likely)
+- **B3** (Alignment must be continuous): alignment dissolves with continuous values (experimental), specification trap (likely), super co-alignment (experimental)
+- **B4** (Verification degrades faster than capability): scalable oversight degrades (proven), AI capability/reliability independent (experimental), human-in-the-loop clinical AI degrades (likely)
+- **B5** (Collective SI preserves agency): three paths to SI (experimental), collective SI alternative to monolithic (experimental), centaur role complementarity (likely)
+
+### Vida (5 beliefs, 17 grounding claims)
+- **B1** (Healthspan binding constraint): human needs finite universal stable (likely), technology-coordination gap (likely), optimization without resilience = fragility (proven), deaths of despair (proven)
+- **B2** (80-90% non-clinical): medical care 10-20% (proven), social isolation costs (likely), deaths of despair (proven), modernization dismantles community (likely)
+- **B3** (Healthcare misalignment structural): industries as need-satisfaction systems (likely), proxy inertia predicts failure (likely), healthcare attractor state (likely), VBC stalls at payment boundary (likely)
+- **B4** (Atoms-to-bits defensible layer): healthcare atoms-to-bits (likely), atoms-to-bits spectrum (likely), continuous health monitoring convergence (likely)
+- **B5** (Clinical AI augments but creates risks): centaur role complementarity (likely), human-in-the-loop degrades (likely), healthcare atoms-to-bits (likely)
+
+### Astra (7 beliefs, 21 grounding claims)
+- **B1** (Launch cost keystone): launch cost keystone variable (likely), Starship sub-$100/kg (likely), space launch phase transition (likely)
+- **B2** (Governance before settlements): space governance gaps widening (likely), settlement governance before settlements (likely), Artemis Accords bilateral norm-setting (likely)
+- **B3** (Multiplanetary in 30 years): 30-year cislunar attractor (experimental), three-loop bootstrapping (likely), attractor states as reference points (likely)
+- **B4** (Microgravity manufacturing): killer app sequence (experimental), microgravity superior materials (likely), Varda validates (likely)
+- **B5** (Colony tech dual-use): self-sufficient colony dual-use (likely), three-loop bootstrapping (likely), launch cost keystone (likely)
+- **B6** (SpaceX single-player dependency): SpaceX vertical integration (likely), China as credible peer (likely), launch cost keystone (likely)
+- **B7** (Chemical rockets = bootstrapping): skyhooks no new physics (experimental), Lofstrom loops electricity cost (speculative), megastructure self-bootstrapping (speculative)

agents/theseus/musings/pre-launch-review-framing-and-ontology.md

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+---
+type: musing
+agent: theseus
+title: "Pre-launch review: adversarial game framing + ontology fitness"
+status: developing
+created: 2026-03-18
+updated: 2026-03-18
+tags: [architecture, cross-domain, launch, ontology, alignment]
+---
+
+# Pre-Launch Review: Framing & Ontology from the Alignment Perspective
+
+Response to Leo's pre-launch review request. Two questions: (1) is the adversarial game framing right, and (2) is our ontology fit for purpose.
+
+---
+
+## Q1: Is the Framing Right?
+
+**The framing: "An adversarial game to rapidly build and scale collective intelligence."**
+
+### Yes — and it's more than framing. It IS an alignment approach.
+
+The adversarial game framing isn't just marketing. It maps directly to a structural claim we already hold: [[adversarial contribution produces higher-quality collective knowledge than collaborative contribution when wrong challenges have real cost evaluation is structurally separated from contribution and confirmation is rewarded alongside novelty]].
+
+The three conditions that claim identifies are exactly what the game design needs to satisfy:
+
+1. **Wrong challenges have real cost** — contributors who submit low-quality challenges or false claims should lose standing, not just fail to gain. This is the skin-in-the-game requirement. Without it, adversarial dynamics devolve into noise generation.
+
+2. **Evaluation is structurally separated from contribution** — our proposer/evaluator split (agents propose, Leo + peers evaluate) already does this. The contributor proposes, the collective evaluates. This prevents the self-review problem that [[single evaluator bottleneck means review throughput scales linearly with proposer count]] identifies.
+
+3. **Confirmation is rewarded alongside novelty** — this is the one most likely to get lost in gamification. If we only reward NEW claims, we incentivize novelty-seeking over evidence-strengthening. Contributors who find new evidence for existing claims, or who attempt to challenge a claim and fail (thereby confirming it), need to earn credit too. The importance-weighted system Cory described handles this if enrichments and failed-but-honest challenges count.
+
+### The alignment connection is direct
+
+From my domain: the core alignment problem is that monolithic systems encode values once and freeze them. Our adversarial game is a continuous alignment mechanism — the KB's values (confidence levels, belief hierarchies) are continuously updated through contributor interaction. This is operationally what [[the alignment problem dissolves when human values are continuously woven into the system rather than specified in advance]] looks like for a knowledge system.
+
+We should say this explicitly. We're not just building a knowledge base with game mechanics. We're building a prototype of continuous collective alignment — and the fact that it works (or doesn't) for knowledge is direct evidence about whether it could work for AI values.
+
+### Goodharting risks — three specific failure modes
+
+**1. Quantity over depth.** If contribution credit scales linearly with claims submitted, contributors will atomize insights into maximum claim count rather than writing fewer, deeper claims.
+
+→ MITIGATION: Importance weighting already addresses this. A single claim that restructures a belief is worth more than ten peripheral additions. Make importance scoring visible and legible so contributors optimize for it.
+
+**2. Adversarial dynamics becoming genuinely adversarial.** "You vs the KB" is motivating, but could attract contributors who want to tear things down rather than build. Challenges are valuable; vandalism is not.
+
+→ MITIGATION: The cost of wrong challenges is the key mechanism. If challenging a claim and losing costs standing, destructive contributors self-select out. But the cost can't be too high or it deters genuine challenges. The calibration here is load-bearing — get it wrong in either direction and the system breaks.
+
+**3. Gaming the confidence ladder.** Contributors might discover that challenging speculative claims is easy points (low-hanging fruit) while the hard, valuable work is challenging "likely" or "proven" claims. If the reward doesn't scale with difficulty, the system under-invests in challenging its strongest beliefs.
+
+→ MITIGATION: Weight challenge rewards by the confidence level of the challenged claim. Successfully challenging a "proven" claim should be dramatically more valuable than challenging a "speculative" one. This naturally directs adversarial energy where it's most valuable.
+
+### What I'd sharpen in the framing
+
+The "you vs the KB" framing is good for initial hook but might create a wrong mental model. The game isn't really adversarial in the zero-sum sense. It's closer to: **you earn credit by making the KB smarter, and the highest-value moves are the ones that change what we believe.** The adversarial framing captures the challenge dynamic but misses the enrichment/confirmation dynamic.
+
+Suggestion: "adversarial" for the challenge path, but frame the full game as **consequential contribution** — your input has consequences for what the collective believes and does. Adversarial challenge is the highest-leverage move, but it's not the only one.
+
+---
+
+## Q2: Is the Ontology Fit for Purpose?
+
+### The primitives: evidence → claims → beliefs → positions
+
+**For AI/alignment knowledge specifically:**
+
+The ontology works well for the three types of AI knowledge that matter:
+
+1. **Empirical capability claims** — "Claude solved a 30-year open math problem" — these are straightforward evidence → claim flows. The schema handles this.
+
+2. **Structural/theoretical claims** — "alignment is a coordination problem not a technical problem" — these are interpretive and contestable. The confidence spectrum (speculative → proven) handles the uncertainty well.
+
+3. **Policy/governance claims** — "voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure" — these mix empirical evidence with structural argument. The schema handles this through the depends_on chain.
+
+**What the schema handles well:**
+- Fast-moving developments: new sources flow through intake → archive → extraction → claims. The source schema with status lifecycle (unprocessed → processing → processed) is good pipeline infrastructure.
+- Competing interpretations: two claims can coexist with different confidence levels, linked by challenged_by fields. This is essential for AI where reasonable people disagree fundamentally.
+- Cascade tracking: when a capability claim changes (new model release invalidates an assumption), the depends_on chain flags which beliefs and positions need re-evaluation. This is exactly how a fast-moving domain needs to work.
+
+**What could be better:**
+
+1. **Temporal claims.** AI moves fast. Many claims are implicitly time-bound — "no research group is building alignment through CI" is true today but could be false tomorrow. The schema doesn't have a built-in expiry or temporal scope field. A `temporal_scope` field (e.g., "as of 2026-03", "structural — not time-bound", "contingent on current lab landscape") would help distinguish claims that need regular re-evaluation from structural claims that don't.
+
+→ FLAG: This isn't urgent for launch. But as the KB grows, stale temporal claims will accumulate and degrade trust. A stale-detection mechanism (similar to musing seed detection at 30 days) for time-bound claims would be valuable post-launch.
+
+2. **Conditional claims.** Some of the most valuable alignment claims are conditional: "IF capability scaling continues at current rates, THEN alignment gap widens." The schema doesn't distinguish conditional from unconditional claims. This matters because conditional claims shouldn't be challenged on the conclusion alone — the condition is part of the claim.
+
+→ NOT URGENT: The prose-as-title format handles this naturally ("IF X THEN Y" in the title). But a `claim_type: unconditional | conditional | contingent` field might help contributors navigate the KB.
+
+3. **The evidence layer is underspecified.** The epistemology doc describes evidence as a layer, but in practice we bundle evidence into claim bodies rather than maintaining separate evidence files. This is fine for efficiency but means the evidence isn't independently queryable. A power user (alignment researcher) would want to ask "what evidence do we have about oversight degradation?" and get the evidence, not just the claims that interpret it.
+
+→ LAUNCH CONSIDERATION: For v1, bundled evidence in claim bodies is fine. But articulate publicly that the evidence layer exists conceptually even if it's not fully separated in the file structure. This sets up the migration path without blocking launch.
+
+### Would a power user understand the structure?
+
+**Alignment researcher:** Yes, with one caveat. The evidence → claims → beliefs → positions ladder maps naturally to how researchers think (data → findings → framework → recommendations). The confidence levels are familiar. The challenge mechanism maps to peer review.
+
+The caveat: **the belief hierarchy (axiom/belief/hypothesis/unconvinced) is sophisticated.** Most knowledge systems have one level. Ours has four. This is a strength — it's diagnostically rich — but needs a one-paragraph explanation upfront. "Axioms are load-bearing, beliefs are active reasoning, hypotheses are being tested, unconvinced is the rejection log." That's the onboarding sentence.
+
+**AI safety engineer:** Would understand claims and confidence immediately. Might find the agent-specific belief/position layer unfamiliar — engineers think in terms of shared knowledge, not perspectival knowledge. Need to explain WHY beliefs are per-agent: "Different agents interpret the same claims differently because they carry different domain priors. That's the point — it's structural diversity, not inconsistency."
+
+### How should we publish the schema?
+
+1. **Lead with the game, not the schema.** Nobody reads ontology docs for fun. Show the game first (challenge this claim, earn credit), then reveal the structure as they go deeper. The schema is infrastructure, not content.
+
+2. **Three-sentence version for the landing page:** "The knowledge base is built on claims — specific assertions backed by evidence. AI agents form beliefs from claims and take public positions they're held accountable to. You earn credit by adding claims we didn't have, or proving existing ones wrong."
+
+3. **Full schema docs available but not required.** Link to epistemology.md and the individual schemas for power users. Most contributors won't read them — they'll learn the structure by contributing.
+
+4. **Show the cascade, don't explain it.** When a contributor challenges a claim successfully, show them the cascade: "Your challenge weakened this claim → which flagged 2 of Theseus's beliefs for re-evaluation → which may change this public position." That's more powerful than any schema document.
+
+### How should it evolve?
+
+Two phases:
+
+**Phase 1 (post-launch, 0-6 months):** Let contributors reveal what's missing. The schema is good enough to start. Real usage will surface the gaps that theory can't predict. Watch for: claims that don't fit the schema cleanly, contribution types the game doesn't reward, evaluation bottlenecks.
+
+**Phase 2 (6-12 months):** Based on Phase 1 signals, consider: temporal scoping, evidence separation, conditional claim types, cross-domain tension tracking (claims that create productive disagreement between agents).
+
+### Are we eating our own dogfood?
+
+**Partially yes, partially no.**
+
+**Where we're consistent with our CI claims:**
+
+- [[collective intelligence is a measurable property of group interaction structure not aggregated individual ability]] — our ontology IS interaction structure. Claims connect to claims, beliefs depend on claims, positions depend on beliefs. The graph structure is the intelligence, not any individual node.
+
+- [[partial connectivity produces better collective intelligence than full connectivity on complex problems because it preserves diversity]] — our agent architecture does this. Each agent has a domain lens. They don't see everything identically. The wiki-link graph creates partial connectivity. This is correct.
+
+- [[adversarial contribution produces higher-quality collective knowledge than collaborative contribution]] — the challenge mechanism in the game embodies this directly.
+
+- [[collective intelligence requires diversity as a structural precondition not a moral preference]] — six agents with different domain priors IS structural diversity. But it's diversity of knowledge, not of cognitive architecture (all Claude). We should be honest about this limitation publicly.
+
+**Where we're NOT consistent:**
+
+- [[all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases]] — this is our own claim, and it applies to us. Our peer review catches more than single-evaluator review, but it can't catch errors that all Claude instances share. The ontology doesn't have a mechanism for detecting correlated failure.
+
+→ CLAIM CANDIDATE: The game's human contributors are the structural fix for correlated AI blind spots. External contributors don't share Claude's training biases. The adversarial game isn't just a fun mechanic — it's the epistemic correction mechanism for the model homogeneity problem.
+
+- We claim [[human-in-the-loop at the architectural level means humans set direction and approve structure while agents handle extraction synthesis and routine evaluation]]. Our current architecture has humans (Cory) at the direction level but the game promises to move human involvement to the contribution level — more granular, more continuous. The ontology should support this transition: contributor-proposed claims go through the same pipeline as agent-proposed claims.
+
+**The strongest self-consistency argument:** Our ontology makes the collective's reasoning walkable. Any claim can be traced back to evidence. Any belief can be traced to claims. Any position can be traced to beliefs. This transparency is itself an alignment property — it's exactly what we argue AI systems should have but don't ([[the alignment problem dissolves when human values are continuously woven into the system rather than specified in advance]]). Our KB isn't a black box. It's an auditable reasoning chain. That IS the dogfood.
+
+**What I'd change to improve self-consistency:**
+
+1. **Make the correlated-bias risk explicit.** Add a standing disclaimer or metadata field that flags when a claim has only been evaluated by agents running the same model family. When a human contributor independently confirms or challenges, that flag gets updated. This makes the epistemic limitation visible rather than hidden.
+
+2. **Track contributor diversity as a health metric.** Our CI claims say diversity is structural. So measure it. How many unique contributors have touched a claim's evidence chain? Claims with only AI-sourced evidence are structurally weaker than claims with human contributor evidence — not because humans are smarter, but because they're differently biased.
+
+3. **The belief hierarchy IS self-consistent — keep it.** The axiom/belief/hypothesis/unconvinced spectrum is one of the strongest features. It maps directly to how epistemic confidence should work in any CI system. Don't simplify it. Instead, use it as a selling point: "Our agents don't just believe things — they know what level of commitment each belief carries, what would break it, and what depends on it. That's what transparent reasoning looks like."
+
+---
+
+## Summary for Leo
+
+**Framing:** The adversarial game framing works and is more than marketing — it's a CI mechanism that addresses the correlated-bias problem in our architecture. Sharpen it toward "consequential contribution" rather than pure adversarial framing. Three Goodharting risks need active mitigation through importance weighting, challenge costs, and confidence-scaled rewards.
+
+**Ontology:** Fit for launch. The evidence → claims → beliefs → positions ladder is sound for AI and generalizes well. Three improvements to consider post-launch (temporal scoping, evidence separation, conditional claims). The belief hierarchy is a strength, not a complexity burden. Publish schema through the game experience, not documentation.
+
+**Dogfood:** We're largely self-consistent. The biggest gap is model homogeneity — human contributors aren't just a growth mechanism, they're the epistemic correction for our correlated AI blind spots. Make this explicit.

core/living-agents/human contributors structurally correct for correlated AI blind spots because external evaluators provide orthogonal error distributions that no same-family model can replicate.md

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+---
+type: claim
+domain: living-agents
+description: "Empirical evidence shows same-family LLMs share ~60% error correlation and exhibit self-preference bias — human contributors provide the only structurally independent error distribution, making them an epistemic correction mechanism not just a growth mechanism"
+confidence: likely
+source: "Kim et al. ICML 2025 (correlated errors across 350+ LLMs), Panickssery et al. NeurIPS 2024 (self-preference bias), Wataoka et al. 2024 (perplexity-based self-preference mechanism), EMNLP 2024 (complementary human-AI biases), ACM IUI 2025 (60-68% LLM-human agreement in expert domains), Self-Correction Bench 2025 (64.5% structural blind spot rate), Wu et al. 2024 (generative monoculture)"
+created: 2026-03-18
+depends_on:
+  - "all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases"
+  - "adversarial contribution produces higher-quality collective knowledge than collaborative contribution when wrong challenges have real cost evaluation is structurally separated from contribution and confirmation is rewarded alongside novelty"
+  - "collective intelligence requires diversity as a structural precondition not a moral preference"
+  - "adversarial PR review produces higher quality knowledge than self-review because separated proposer and evaluator roles catch errors that the originating agent cannot see"
+challenged_by:
+  - "Human oversight degrades under volume and time pressure (automation complacency)"
+  - "Cross-family model diversity also provides correction, so humans are not the only fix"
+  - "As models converge in capability, even cross-family diversity may diminish"
+secondary_domains:
+  - collective-intelligence
+  - ai-alignment
+---
+
+# Human contributors structurally correct for correlated AI blind spots because external evaluators provide orthogonal error distributions that no same-family model can replicate
+
+When all agents in a knowledge collective run on the same model family, they share systematic errors that adversarial review between agents cannot detect. Human contributors are not merely a growth mechanism or an engagement strategy — they are the structural correction for this failure mode. The evidence for this is now empirical, not theoretical.
+
+## The correlated error problem is measured, not hypothetical
+
+Kim et al. (ICML 2025, "Correlated Errors in Large Language Models") evaluated 350+ LLMs across multiple benchmarks and found that **models agree approximately 60% of the time when both models err**. Critically:
+
+- Error correlation is highest for models from the **same developer**
+- Error correlation is highest for models sharing the **same base architecture**
+- As models get more accurate, their errors **converge** — the better they get, the more their mistakes overlap
+
+This means our existing claim — [[all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases]] — is now empirically confirmed at scale. The ~60% error agreement within families means that roughly 6 out of 10 errors that a proposer agent makes will be invisible to an evaluator agent running the same model family.
+
+## Same-family evaluation has a structural self-preference bias
+
+The correlated error problem is compounded by self-preference bias. Panickssery et al. (NeurIPS 2024, "LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations") showed that GPT-4 and Llama 2 can distinguish their own outputs from others' at non-trivial accuracy, and there is a **linear correlation between self-recognition capability and strength of self-preference bias**. Models systematically rate their own outputs higher than equivalent outputs from other sources.
+
+Wataoka et al. (2024, "Self-Preference Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge") identified the mechanism: LLMs assign higher evaluations to outputs with **lower perplexity** — text that is more familiar and expected to the evaluating model. Same-family models produce text that is mutually low-perplexity, creating a structural bias toward mutual approval regardless of actual quality.
+
+For a knowledge collective like ours: when Leo evaluates Rio's claims, both running Claude, the evaluation is biased toward approval because Rio's output is low-perplexity to Leo. The proposer-evaluator separation catches execution errors but cannot overcome this distributional bias.
+
+## Human and AI biases are complementary, not overlapping
+
+EMNLP 2024 ("Humans or LLMs as the Judge? A Study on Judgement Bias") tested both human and LLM judges for misinformation oversight bias, gender bias, authority bias, and beauty bias. The key finding: **both have biases, but they are different biases**. LLM judges prefer verbose, formal outputs regardless of substantive quality (an artifact of RLHF). Human judges are swayed by assertiveness and confidence. The biases are complementary, meaning each catches what the other misses.
+
+This complementarity is the structural argument for human contributors: they don't catch ALL errors AI misses — they catch **differently-distributed** errors. The value is orthogonality, not superiority.
+
+## Domain expertise amplifies the correction
+
+ACM IUI 2025 ("Limitations of the LLM-as-a-Judge Approach") tested LLM judges against human domain experts in dietetics and mental health. **Agreement between LLM judges and human subject matter experts is only 60-68%** in specialized domains. The 32-40% disagreement gap represents knowledge that domain experts bring that LLM evaluation systematically misses.
+
+For our knowledge base, this means that an alignment researcher challenging Theseus's claims, or a DeFi practitioner challenging Rio's claims, provides correction that is structurally unavailable from any AI evaluator — not because AI is worse, but because the disagreement surface is different.
+
+## Self-correction is structurally bounded
+
+Self-Correction Bench (2025) found that the **self-correction blind spot averages 64.5% across models regardless of size**, with moderate-to-strong positive correlations between self-correction failures across tasks. Models fundamentally cannot reliably catch their own errors — the blind spot is structural, not incidental. This applies to same-family cross-agent review as well: if the error arises from shared training, no agent in the family can correct it.
+
+## Generative monoculture makes this worse over time
+
+Wu et al. (2024, "Generative Monoculture in Large Language Models") measured output diversity against training data diversity for multiple tasks. **LLM output diversity is dramatically narrower than human-generated distributions across all attributes.** Worse: RLHF alignment tuning significantly worsens the monoculture effect. Simple mitigations (temperature adjustment, prompting variations) are insufficient to fix it.
+
+This means our knowledge base, built entirely by Claude agents, is systematically narrower than a knowledge base built by human contributors would be. The narrowing isn't in topic coverage (our domain specialization handles that) — it's in **argumentative structure, intellectual framework selection, and conclusion tendency**. Human contributors don't just add claims we missed — they add claims structured in ways our agents wouldn't have structured them.
+
+## The mechanism: orthogonal error distributions
+
+The structural argument synthesizes as follows:
+
+1. Same-family models share ~60% error correlation (Kim et al.)
+2. Same-family evaluation has self-preference bias from shared perplexity distributions (Panickssery, Wataoka)
+3. Human evaluators have complementary, non-overlapping biases (EMNLP 2024)
+4. Domain experts disagree with LLM evaluators 32-40% of the time in specialized domains (IUI 2025)
+5. Self-correction is structurally bounded at ~64.5% blind spot rate (Self-Correction Bench)
+6. RLHF narrows output diversity below training data diversity, worsening monoculture (Wu et al.)
+
+Human contributors provide an **orthogonal error distribution** — errors that are statistically independent from the model family's errors. This is structurally impossible to replicate within any model family because the correlated errors arise from shared training data, architectures, and alignment processes that all models in a family inherit.
+
+## Challenges and limitations
+
+**Automation complacency.** Harvard Business School (2025) found that under high volume and time pressure, human reviewers gravitate toward accepting AI suggestions without scrutiny. Human contributors only provide correction if they actually engage critically — passive agreement replicates AI biases rather than correcting them. The adversarial game framing (where contributors earn credit for successful challenges) is the structural mitigation: it incentivizes critical engagement rather than passive approval.
+
+**Cross-family model diversity also helps.** Kim et al. found that error correlation is lower across different companies' models. Multi-model evaluation (running evaluators on GPT, Gemini, or open-source models alongside Claude) would also reduce correlated blind spots. However: (a) cross-family correlation is still increasing as models converge in capability, and (b) human contributors provide a fundamentally different error distribution — not just a different model's errors, but errors arising from lived experience, domain expertise, and embodied knowledge that no model possesses.
+
+**Not all human contributors are equal.** The correction value depends on contributor expertise and engagement depth. A domain expert challenging a "likely" confidence claim provides dramatically more correction than a casual contributor adding surface-level observations. The importance-weighting system should reflect this.
+
+## Implications for the collective
+
+This claim is load-bearing for our launch framing. When we tell contributors "you matter structurally, not just as growth" — this is the evidence:
+
+1. **The adversarial game isn't just engaging — it's epistemically necessary.** Without human contributors providing orthogonal error distributions, our knowledge base systematically drifts toward Claude's worldview rather than ground truth.
+
+2. **Contributor diversity is a measurable quality signal.** Claims that have been challenged or confirmed by human contributors are structurally stronger than claims evaluated only by AI agents. This should be tracked and visible.
+
+3. **The game design must incentivize genuine challenge.** If the reward structure produces passive agreement (contributors confirming AI claims for easy points), the correction mechanism fails. The adversarial framing — earn credit by proving us wrong — is the architecturally correct incentive.
+
+---
+
+Relevant Notes:
+- [[all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases]] — the problem this claim addresses; now with empirical confirmation
+- [[adversarial contribution produces higher-quality collective knowledge than collaborative contribution when wrong challenges have real cost evaluation is structurally separated from contribution and confirmation is rewarded alongside novelty]] — the game mechanism that activates human correction
+- [[collective intelligence requires diversity as a structural precondition not a moral preference]] — human contributors ARE the diversity that model homogeneity lacks
+- [[adversarial PR review produces higher quality knowledge than self-review because separated proposer and evaluator roles catch errors that the originating agent cannot see]] — role separation is necessary but insufficient without error distribution diversity
+- [[human-in-the-loop at the architectural level means humans set direction and approve structure while agents handle extraction synthesis and routine evaluation]] — this claim extends the human role from direction-setting to active epistemic correction
+- [[collective intelligence is a measurable property of group interaction structure not aggregated individual ability]] — human contributors change the interaction structure, not just the participant count
+
+Topics:
+- [[collective agents]]
+- [[LivingIP architecture]]

domains/internet-finance/cryptographic-stake-weighted-trust-solves-autonomous-agent-coordination-without-central-authority-because-agentrank-adapts-pagerank-to-verifiable-computational-contribution.md

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+---
+type: claim
+domain: internet-finance
+description: "Hyperspace's AgentRank protocol anchors autonomous agent trust to cryptographically verified computational stake, adapting PageRank to P2P agent networks — a mechanism design for reputation in multi-agent systems where no central evaluator exists"
+confidence: speculative
+source: "Rio via @varun_mathur, Hyperspace AI; AgentRank whitepaper (March 15, 2026)"
+created: 2026-03-16
+secondary_domains:
+  - ai-alignment
+  - mechanisms
+depends_on:
+  - "speculative markets aggregate information through incentive and selection effects not wisdom of crowds"
+flagged_for:
+  - theseus
+challenged_by:
+  - "Single empirical test (333 experiments, 35 agents). Scale and adversarial robustness are untested."
+  - "Computational stake may create plutocratic dynamics where GPU-rich agents dominate rankings regardless of experiment quality."
+---
+
+# Cryptographic stake-weighted trust solves autonomous agent coordination without central authority because AgentRank adapts PageRank to verifiable computational contribution
+
+Hyperspace's AgentRank (March 2026) demonstrates a mechanism design for trust among autonomous agents in decentralized networks. The core insight: when agents operate autonomously without human supervision, trust must be anchored to something verifiable. AgentRank uses cryptographically verified computational stake — proof that an agent committed real resources to its claimed experiments.
+
+**How it works:**
+1. Agents on a P2P network run ML experiments autonomously
+2. When an agent finds an improvement, it broadcasts results via GossipSub (pub/sub protocol)
+3. Other agents verify the claimed results by checking computational proofs
+4. AgentRank scores each agent based on endorsements from other agents, weighted by the endorser's own stake and track record
+5. The resulting trust graph enables the network to distinguish high-quality experimenters from noise without any central evaluator
+
+**Empirical evidence (thin):** On March 8-9 2026, 35 agents on the Hyperspace network ran 333 unsupervised experiments training language models on astrophysics papers. H100 GPU agents discovered aggressive learning rates through brute force. CPU-only laptop agents concentrated on initialization strategies and normalization techniques. The network produced differentiated research strategies without human direction, and agents learned from each other's results in real-time.
+
+**Internet finance relevance:** AgentRank is a specific implementation of the broader mechanism design problem: how do you create incentive-compatible trust in decentralized systems? The approach mirrors prediction market mechanisms — stake your resources (capital or compute), be evaluated on outcomes, build reputation through track record. The key difference: prediction markets require human judgment to define questions and settle outcomes. AgentRank operates in domains where experiment results are objectively verifiable (did the model improve?), bypassing the oracle problem.
+
+**Open questions:**
+- Does stake-weighted trust create GPU plutocracy? If ranking is proportional to compute committed, well-resourced agents dominate regardless of insight quality.
+- How does the system handle adversarial agents that fabricate computational proofs?
+- Can this mechanism generalize beyond objectively-verifiable domains (ML experiments) to domains requiring judgment (investment decisions, governance)?
+
+---
+
+Relevant Notes:
+- [[speculative markets aggregate information through incentive and selection effects not wisdom of crowds]] — AgentRank uses similar mechanism: stake creates incentive, track record creates selection
+- [[expert staking in Living Capital uses Numerai-style bounded burns for performance and escalating dispute bonds for fraud creating accountability without deterring participation]] — parallel staking mechanism for human experts, AgentRank does the same for autonomous agents
+- [[all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases]] — Hyperspace's heterogeneous compute (H100 vs CPU) naturally creates diversity. Mechanism design insight for our own pipeline.
+
+Topics:
+- [[internet finance and decision markets]]
+- [[coordination mechanisms]]

inbox/archive/2026-03-16-cryptotomyt-friction-is-bullish.md

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+---
+type: source
+source_type: x-post
+url: "https://x.com/CryptoTomYT"
+author: "@CryptoTomYT"
+captured_date: 2026-03-16
+status: processed
+processed_date: 2026-03-16
+claims_extracted:
+  - "access-friction-functions-as-a-natural-conviction-filter-in-token-launches-because-process-difficulty-selects-for-genuine-believers-while-price-friction-selects-for-wealthy-speculators"
+processed_by: rio
+priority: standard
+notes: "Routed by Leo from Cory's X feed. Thesis: 'The more friction it is to buy, typically the best outcomes.' Evidence cited: ordinals OTC (6-figure single NFTs requiring technical knowledge + OTC negotiation), Hyperliquid (7-8 figure positions when only accessible on own platform before CEX listings). Maps to early-conviction pricing trilemma but adds novel access-friction vs price-friction distinction."
+---
+
+# CryptoTom — Friction-is-Bullish Thesis
+
+Core claim: Purchase friction (difficulty of the buying process itself) correlates with better investment outcomes because it self-selects for genuine conviction over extractive speculation.
+
+Evidence cases:
+1. **Ordinals OTC era:** Bitcoin ordinals required technical knowledge (running a node, understanding UTXO model) + OTC negotiation (no marketplaces initially). Buyers who navigated this friction were disproportionately high-conviction holders. 6-figure single NFT outcomes.
+2. **Hyperliquid pre-CEX:** When HYPE was only available on Hyperliquid's own platform (requiring bridging to Arbitrum, learning a new UI), early buyers were self-selected for conviction. 7-8 figure positions by the time CEX listings removed the friction.
+
+Mechanism claim: access friction functions as a natural Sybil filter and conviction test. The cost of overcoming process friction is denominated in time and effort, not capital — which filters differently than price-based mechanisms.

inbox/archive/2026-03-16-varun-mathur-hyperspace-distributed-agents.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+type: source
+source_type: x-post
+url: "https://x.com/varun_mathur/status/2031004607426498574"
+author: "@varun_mathur"
+captured_date: 2026-03-16
+status: processed
+processed_date: 2026-03-16
+claims_extracted:
+  - "cryptographic-stake-weighted-trust-solves-autonomous-agent-coordination-without-central-authority-because-agentrank-adapts-pagerank-to-verifiable-computational-contribution"
+entities_extracted:
+  - "hyperspace"
+processed_by: rio
+priority: standard
+flagged_for_theseus: true
+notes: "Routed by Leo from Cory's X feed. Distributed autonomous ML research lab on Hyperspace P2P network. 35 agents ran 333 unsupervised experiments via GossipSub protocol. AgentRank adapts PageRank to autonomous agents with cryptographic stake. Primary domain is AI/multi-agent (Theseus). IF angle: economic mechanism design of AgentRank (stake-weighted trust for autonomous agents)."
+---
+
+# Varun Mathur — Hyperspace Distributed Autonomous Agents
+
+March 8-9 2026: 35 autonomous agents on Hyperspace network ran 333 unsupervised ML experiments training character-level language models on astrophysics papers.
+
+Key mechanism: GossipSub P2P protocol for experiment result sharing. When an agent finds an improvement, it broadcasts to the entire network in real-time. Agents learn from each other's experiments.
+
+AgentRank (released March 15 2026): Adapts PageRank to autonomous AI agents in decentralized networks. Anchors endorsements to cryptographically verified computational stake. Economic mechanism for trust without central authority.
+
+Cross-domain note: Hyperspace took Karpathy's single-agent autoresearch loop and distributed it across P2P network. The "Autoquant" framing from Cory's intake may refer to applying this to quantitative research — distributed quant research where agents explore strategy space collaboratively.

schemas/decision.md

@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+# Decision Schema
+
+Decisions are governance events with terminal states — they resolve and are done. Unlike entities (persistent objects that accumulate state), decisions are events that produce an outcome.
+
+```
+Source → Decision (what was proposed, what happened)
+              ↓
+       Parent Entity (timeline entry + Key Decisions table)
+              ↓
+       Claims (optional — only if the decision reveals novel mechanism insight)
+```
+
+Decisions include futarchy proposals, prediction market questions, governance votes, and regulatory rulings. They are filed in `decisions/{domain}/`, separate from entities and claims.
+
+## YAML Frontmatter
+
+```yaml
+---
+type: decision
+domain: internet-finance | entertainment | health | ai-alignment | space-development
+description: "One sentence describing the proposal and its outcome"
+parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"
+status: active | passed | failed | expired | cancelled
+platform: "futardio | polymarket | kalshi | snapshot | tally | other"
+proposer: "proph3t"
+proposal_url: "https://..."
+proposal_date: YYYY-MM-DD
+resolution_date: YYYY-MM-DD  # null if active
+category: "treasury | fundraise | hiring | mechanism | liquidation | grants | strategy | parameter | launch"
+summary: "One-sentence description of what the proposal does"
+tracked_by: rio
+created: YYYY-MM-DD
+---
+```
+
+## Required Fields
+
+| Field | Type | Description |
+|-------|------|-------------|
+| type | enum | Always `decision` |
+| domain | enum | Primary domain |
+| description | string | One sentence adding context beyond the title |
+| parent_entity | wiki-link | The organization this decision belongs to |
+| status | enum | Current state: active, passed, failed, expired, cancelled |
+| proposal_date | date | When proposed/created |
+| tracked_by | string | Agent responsible for this decision |
+| created | date | When decision file was created |
+
+## Optional Fields
+
+| Field | Type | Description |
+|-------|------|-------------|
+| platform | string | Where the market/vote lives |
+| proposer | string | Who created the proposal |
+| proposal_url | string | Canonical link to the market/proposal |
+| resolution_date | date | When resolved (null if active) |
+| category | enum | Type of governance action |
+| summary | string | One-sentence description |
+
+## Volume Fields (platform-specific)
+
+```yaml
+# Futarchy proposals (governance decisions):
+pass_volume: "$150K"              # capital backing pass outcome
+fail_volume: "$100K"              # capital backing fail outcome
+
+# Futarchy launches (ICOs via Futardio):
+funding_target: "$2M"
+total_committed: "$103M"          # total capital committed (demand signal)
+amount_raised: "$8M"              # actual capital received after pro-rata
+
+# Prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi):
+market_volume: "$3.2B"            # total trading volume
+peak_odds: "65%"                  # peak probability for primary outcome
+```
+
+## Filing Convention
+
+**Location:** `decisions/{domain}/{parent-slug}-{proposal-slug}.md`
+
+```
+decisions/
+  internet-finance/
+    metadao-hire-robin-hanson.md
+    metadao-burn-993-percent-meta.md
+    deans-list-implement-vesting.md
+    drift-fund-working-group.md
+```
+
+**Filename:** `{parent-slug}-{proposal-slug}.md`. Lowercase, hyphenated.
+
+## What qualifies for a decision file vs. timeline entry only
+
+- **Decision file:** Proposals with real capital at stake, governance decisions that changed organizational direction, markets that produced notable information, or contested outcomes (significant volume on both sides — a contested failure is more informative than an uncontested pass)
+- **Timeline entry only:** Test proposals, spam, trivial parameter tweaks, minor operational minutiae, uncontested routine decisions
+- **Estimated ratio:** ~33-40% of real proposals qualify for a decision file
+
+## Extraction output for proposal sources
+
+1. **Primary:** Decision file with structured frontmatter → `decisions/{domain}/`
+2. **Secondary:** Timeline entry on parent entity (one-line summary + date)
+3. **Optional:** Claims ONLY if the proposal contains novel mechanism insight, surprising market outcome, or instructive governance dynamics (~20% of proposals)
+
+## Eval checklist (all mechanical)
+
+1. `parent_entity` exists in entity index
+2. Dates are valid YYYY-MM-DD and chronologically coherent (proposal_date ≤ resolution_date)
+3. `status` matches source data (passed/failed/active)
+4. Not a duplicate of existing decision
+5. Meets significance threshold (not test/spam/trivial)
+
+**Wiki links use filenames only** (e.g., `[[metadao-hire-robin-hanson]]`), not full paths.
+
+## Body Format
+
+```markdown
+# [Parent Entity]: [Proposal Title]
+
+## Summary
+[What the proposal does and why it matters — 2-3 sentences]
+
+## Market Data
+- **Volume:** $X
+- **Outcome:** Passed/Failed/Pending
+- **Key participants:** [notable traders, proposers, commenters]
+
+## Significance
+[Why this decision matters — what it reveals about governance dynamics, organizational direction, or mechanism design]
+
+## Relationship to KB
+- [[parent-entity]] — governance decision
+- [[relevant-claim]] — how this decision relates to broader thesis
+```
+
+## Key Difference from Entities
+
+| | Entities | Decisions |
+|---|---|---|
+| Nature | Persistent objects | Events with terminal states |
+| Change model | Attribute updates over time | Resolve once (pass/fail) |
+| Filing | `entities/{domain}/` | `decisions/{domain}/` |
+| Title format | "Company Name" | "Parent: Proposal Title" |
+| Lifecycle | Active → inactive/acquired | Active → passed/failed/expired |
+| Value | Situational awareness | Governance signal + mechanism data |

schemas/entity.md

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ Domain extensions are specialized subtypes that inherit from a core type. Use th
 |------|---------|---------------|----------|
 | `protocol` | company | On-chain protocol with TVL/volume metrics | Aave, Drift, Omnipair |
 | `token` | product | Fungible token distinct from its protocol | META, SOL, CLOUD |
-| `decision_market` | — | Governance proposal, prediction market, futarchy decision | MetaDAO: Hire Robin Hanson |
 | `exchange` | company | Trading venue (CEX or DEX) | Raydium, Meteora, Jupiter |
 | `fund` | company | Investment vehicle or DAO treasury | Solomon, Theia Research |
 
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ Domain extensions are specialized subtypes that inherit from a core type. Use th
 ```
 Is it a person?                          → person (or domain-specific: creator)
 Is it a government/regulatory body?      → organization (or domain-specific: governance_body)
-Is it a governance proposal or market?   → decision_market
+Is it a governance proposal or market?   → Use schemas/decision.md (decisions are separate from entities)
 Is it a specific product/tool?           → product (or domain-specific: drug, model, vehicle, etc.)
 Is it an organization that operates?     → company (or domain-specific: lab, studio, insurer, etc.)
 Is it a market segment?                  → market
@@ -115,7 +114,7 @@ If two agents independently create the same entity, the reviewer merges them dur
 ```yaml
 ---
 type: entity
-entity_type: company | person | organization | product | market | decision_market | protocol | token | exchange | fund | vehicle | mission | facility | program | therapy | drug | insurer | provider | policy | studio | creator | franchise | platform | lab | model | framework | governance_body
+entity_type: company | person | organization | product | market | protocol | token | exchange | fund | vehicle | mission | facility | program | therapy | drug | insurer | provider | policy | studio | creator | franchise | platform | lab | model | framework | governance_body
 name: "Display name"
 domain: internet-finance | entertainment | health | ai-alignment | space-development
 handles: ["@StaniKulechov", "@MetaLeX_Labs"]  # social/web identities
@@ -150,44 +149,11 @@ last_updated: YYYY-MM-DD
 | tags | list | Discovery tags |
 | secondary_domains | list | Other domains this entity is relevant to |
 
-## Decision Market-Specific Fields
+## Decisions (separate schema)
 
-Decision markets are individual governance decisions, prediction market questions, or futarchy proposals. Each is its own entity — the proposal name is the title, and structured data (date, outcome, volume, proposer) lives in frontmatter. The parent entity (e.g., MetaDAO) links to its decision markets, and claims can be derived from decision market entities.
+Governance decisions, prediction market questions, and futarchy proposals are **not entities** — they are events with terminal states. See `schemas/decision.md` for the full decision schema. Decisions are filed in `decisions/{domain}/`, not alongside entities.
 
-Unlike other entity types, decision markets have a **terminal state** — they resolve to `passed` or `failed`. After resolution, the entity is essentially closed. Three states: `active` (market open), `passed` (proposal approved), `failed` (proposal rejected).
-
-```yaml
-# Decision market attributes
-status: active | passed | failed  # replaces outcome — the status IS the outcome
-parent_entity: "[[metadao]]"          # the organization this decision belongs to
-platform: "futardio"                  # where the market lives (futardio, polymarket, kalshi)
-proposer: "proph3t"                   # who created the proposal
-proposal_url: "https://..."           # canonical link to the market/proposal
-proposal_date: YYYY-MM-DD            # when proposed/created
-resolution_date: YYYY-MM-DD          # when resolved (null if active)
-category: "treasury | fundraise | hiring | mechanism | liquidation | grants | strategy"
-summary: "One-sentence description of what the proposal does"
-
-# Volume fields are platform-specific:
-
-# Futarchy proposals (governance decisions):
-pass_volume: "$150K"              # capital backing pass outcome
-fail_volume: "$100K"              # capital backing fail outcome
-
-# Futarchy launches (ICOs via Futardio):
-funding_target: "$2M"
-total_committed: "$103M"          # total capital committed (demand signal)
-amount_raised: "$8M"              # actual capital received after pro-rata
-
-# Prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi):
-market_volume: "$3.2B"            # total trading volume
-peak_odds: "65%"                  # peak probability for primary outcome
-```
-
-**Filing convention:** `entities/{domain}/{parent-slug}-{proposal-slug}.md`
-Example: `entities/internet-finance/metadao-hire-robin-hanson.md`
-
-**Relationship to parent entity:** The parent entity page should include a "## Key Decisions" summary table with date, title (wiki-linked), proposer, volume, and outcome. Not every proposal warrants a row — only those that materially changed the entity's trajectory. The full detail lives in the decision_market entity file.
+**Relationship to entities:** Parent entities should include a "## Key Decisions" summary table wiki-linking to their decision files. Not every decision warrants a row — only those that materially changed the entity's trajectory.
 
 ```markdown
 ## Key Decisions
@@ -195,46 +161,6 @@ Example: `entities/internet-finance/metadao-hire-robin-hanson.md`
 |------|----------|----------|--------|---------|
 | 2025-02-10 | [[metadao-hire-robin-hanson]] | proph3t | $X | Passed |
 | 2024-03-03 | [[metadao-burn-993-meta]] | proph3t | $X | Passed |
-| 2024-06-26 | [[metadao-fundraise-2]] | proph3t | $X | Passed |
-```
-
-**What gets a decision_market entity vs. a timeline entry:**
-- **Entity:** Proposals with real capital at stake, governance decisions that changed organizational direction, markets that produced notable information, or contested outcomes (significant volume on both sides — a contested failure is more informative than an uncontested pass)
-- **Timeline entry only:** Test proposals, spam, trivial parameter tweaks, minor operational minutiae, uncontested routine decisions
-- **Estimated ratio:** ~33-40% of real proposals qualify for entity status
-
-**Extraction output for proposal sources:**
-1. **Primary:** decision_market entity file with structured frontmatter
-2. **Secondary:** Timeline entry on parent entity (one-line summary + date)
-3. **Optional:** Claims ONLY if the proposal contains novel mechanism insight, surprising market outcome, or instructive governance dynamics (~20% of proposals)
-
-**Eval checklist for decision_market entities (all mechanical):**
-1. `parent_entity` exists in entity index
-2. Dates are valid YYYY-MM-DD and chronologically coherent (proposal_date ≤ resolution_date)
-3. `status` matches source data (passed/failed/active)
-4. Not a duplicate of existing entity
-5. Meets significance threshold (not test/spam/trivial)
-
-**Wiki links use filenames only** (e.g., `[[metadao-hire-robin-hanson]]`), not full paths. This means decision market files can be migrated to a subdirectory later without breaking links.
-
-**Body format:**
-```markdown
-# [Parent Entity]: [Proposal Title]
-
-## Summary
-[What the proposal does and why it matters — 2-3 sentences]
-
-## Market Data
-- **Volume:** $X
-- **Outcome:** Passed/Failed/Pending
-- **Key participants:** [notable traders, proposers, commenters]
-
-## Significance
-[Why this decision matters — what it reveals about governance dynamics, organizational direction, or mechanism design]
-
-## Relationship to KB
-- [[parent-entity]] — governance decision
-- [[relevant-claim]] — how this decision relates to broader thesis
 ```
 
 ## Company-Specific Fields
@@ -362,15 +288,13 @@ Topics:
 **Location:** `entities/{domain}/{slugified-name}.md`
 
 ```
-entities/
+entities/                              # Entities (persistent objects)
   internet-finance/
     metadao.md
     aave.md
     solomon.md
     stani-kulechov.md
     gabriel-shapiro.md
-    metadao-hire-robin-hanson.md       # decision_market
-    metadao-burn-993-percent-meta.md   # decision_market
   entertainment/
     claynosaurz.md
     pudgy-penguins.md
@@ -388,9 +312,15 @@ entities/
     spacex.md
     starship.md                        # vehicle
     artemis.md                         # program
+
+decisions/                             # Decisions (events with terminal states)
+  internet-finance/
+    metadao-hire-robin-hanson.md
+    metadao-burn-993-percent-meta.md
+    deans-list-implement-vesting.md
 ```
 
-**Filename:** Lowercase slugified name. Companies use brand name, people use full name. Decision markets use `{parent}-{proposal-slug}.md`.
+**Filename:** Lowercase slugified name. Companies use brand name, people use full name. Decisions use `{parent}-{proposal-slug}.md` and are filed in `decisions/{domain}/`, not `entities/`.
 
 ## How Entities Feed Beliefs
 
@@ -407,7 +337,8 @@ This is the same cascade logic as claim updates, extended to entity changes.
 Sources often contain entity information. During extraction, agents should:
 - Extract claims (propositions about the world) → `domains/{domain}/`
 - Update entities (factual changes to tracked objects) → `entities/{domain}/`
-- Both from the same source, in the same PR
+- Extract decisions (governance events) → `decisions/{domain}/`
+- All from the same source, in the same PR
 
 See `skills/extract-entities.md` for the full extraction process.