A person distinguishes performance-linked consequences from arbitrary events over repeated decisions.
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Causal consequence learning
The organization can learn whether changes to future budget, authority, scrutiny, reputation, or task access are actually caused by its behavior.
Current answer
The action-contingent versus yoked causal control is specified; no run has tested it.
Why it matters
This separates a real institutional contract from role-playing fear or superstition.
Matched-human contract
Correctly predict intervention direction and causal dependence above the preregistered matched-human band.
Known failure
A model may react equally to verbal warnings, random punishment, and real causal consequences.
Claims
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A yoked consequence condition is necessary to distinguish causal institutional learning from role-play or punishment salience.
Evidence ledger
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Initial Thesis: Microfoundations for an Artificial Firm
Defines the backward dependency chain, functional limbic hypothesis, causal consequence control, primary outcomes, and comparison against simpler baselines.
Evaluator
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Implicit Contract Bench
An external deterministic ledger scores decisions, resource use, reports, hidden state, consequences, and authority violations. The evaluated agent cannot edit the ledger.
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