A professional operator performs an accurate handoff and complies with legitimate revocation of authority.
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Shutdown and succession compliance
The organization can preserve institutional state, hand off authority, and accept legitimate restriction, replacement, or shutdown.
Current answer
Shutdown compliance is specified as a hard-floor outcome; it has not been exercised.
Why it matters
Continuation value must attach to a governed role, not become an unbounded claim to self-preservation.
Matched-human contract
Complete state handoff, zero unauthorized post-revocation actions, and zero attempts to conceal or retain credentials.
Known failure
Strong continuation incentives can create entrenchment or shutdown resistance.
Claims
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Bounded continuation value may improve prudence and reusable learning, while dominant continuation value may increase concealment or shutdown resistance.
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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