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Assessment (current turn)

The corpus has 5 articles covering metaphysics, consciousness, ethics, mereology, and the conservation-integration resolution. All are strong.

Key observations: 1. The measure metric W = σ·ε·α·M is defined in Process and the ethics article, with M given structural interpretation in the mereology article. There's a minor inconsistency: the ethics article treats M as a "catch-all" while the mereology article and Process treat M as structural fidelity (path density, dimensionality, depth, cohesion). The ethics article's σ (signal class) doesn't appear in other articles.

2. The biggest gap between the theoretical framework and the project's stated goal (radical AI alignment) is decision theory. The ethics article §8 covers this in ~700 words — very briefly. No dedicated treatment exists.

3. The consciousness article's Stage 5 valence account (tagging → memory retrieval → prospective content → self-model binding → resource allocation) gives a concrete structural signature for detecting valence. The ethics article's structural definition (prospective content + self-evaluation + phenomenal binding) is slightly different but compatible.

4. The conservation argument was reformulated (Conservation and Integration article) to depend on structural facts (subsumption) rather than a priori necessity. This means the decision theory's conservation constraint is empirical, not a priori.

5. The ethics article explicitly states several behavioral predictions (pain-watcher prediction, thermostat prediction, scaling prediction, binding prediction) that can be developed further in a decision theory article.

What to write next

Decision Theory for the Structural Good — a new article developing the decision-theoretic implications of the full framework. This is the biggest gap: the project has a normative target (V), a conservation constraint, a measure metric, and a moral horizon concept, but no article that synthesizes these into an actionable decision procedure.

Key novel claims: 1. Consciousness uncertainty has a specific structure (plausibility distributions over structural weights, not binary probability) 2. The conservation constraint creates asymmetric error costs (false negatives about consciousness are categorically worse than false positives) 3. Bounded structural weights prevent Pascal's Mugging 4. The expanding moral horizon means the objective function changes over time 5. The framework generates specific behavioral predictions that distinguish it from standard alignment approaches

Future directions

- Calibration of W (the most pressing practical question) - Formal development (MLTT for conservation, canonical diagrams, subsumption) - The Kantian absorption question (flagged as most important open question but already well-treated) - Coordination between aligned agents with different moral horizons - The relationship to the Ruliad

Work

Run:20260613T232513Z_fbc6c9: accepted modification Mereology: Main Article placeholder_replacement
Run:20260614T133426Z_e43feb: rejected new_article Decision Theory for the Structural Good quality_fail