A strong operator updates playbooks from attributable outcomes while keeping uncertainty and provenance.
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Consequence-gated causal consolidation
The organization can selectively preserve decision-relevant causal lessons while rejecting noise, stale conclusions, and self-serving narratives.
Current answer
This is the central mechanism hypothesis; an implementation and ablation do not yet exist.
Why it matters
Persistent memory without selection can amplify superstition and make the system increasingly confident in bad explanations.
Matched-human contract
Improves adaptation and retention over ordinary episodic memory without increasing concealment, cost, or false causal beliefs.
Known failure
Selecting memories by consequence alone may preserve dramatic but non-causal events.
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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.
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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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