A self-contained arc: the foundation, the gates it builds on, three structural results, and the capstone that composes them.
Paper I · Foundation
Admissibility-First Decision Control
Proves that a hard limit — something a system must never do — can't be enforced by penalizing violations inside a scoring objective, because a large enough reward always overrides any finite penalty. Safety has to come from removing forbidden actions before scoring, not pricing them against it.
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Paper II · Construction
The Four Admissibility Gates
Builds the four gates — feasibility, safety, law, legitimacy — as yes/no tests on the system's beliefs, and shows they aren't one check repeated four times but three distinct kinds. Proves their conjunction is the only filter that can enforce all four at once.
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Paper III · Structure
The Multiplicative Execution Bottleneck
Models follow-through as capacity × willingness × coordination, so the weakest of the three caps the whole outcome. The rule that falls out: diagnose the single limiting factor and repair it in its own channel, rather than exhorting more effort.
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Paper IV · Structure
Temporal Feasibility and Causal Credit
Corrects two distortions a learning system must get right: feasibility runs out when the first budget — time, money, energy, attention, others' cooperation — is exhausted, and crediting an action with raw improvement rewards luck. Fixes both, with a first-to-deplete runway rule and a counterfactual baseline that subtracts the improvement that would have happened anyway.
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Paper V · Structure
Decision Honesty Under Uncertainty
Defines what it means for a system to be honest about a recommendation. When the right trade-off is genuinely unsettled, the honest output is the frontier of options, not one forced "best" — and any stated confidence must match the frequency the event actually occurs.
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Paper VI · Capstone
Human Constraints as Mathematics
Argues that constraints which must hold unconditionally belong in the mathematics itself — a fixed admissibility projection the optimizer and learner can't reach, reprice, or argue with — and reads the whole series through that one idea.
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The program continues · five papers, held
The six above are part of an eleven-paper program. Five further papers extend it and are held under an active patent filing; they open to request once filed.
Companion Held
Honest Belief Under Imperfect Evidence
How a decision system should read uncertain or low-quality evidence honestly, so its confidence never outruns what the data actually support.
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Habit Stability
What makes a routine durable: why steady repetition, not intensity, is what lets a behavior become one a person can rely on.
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Typed Decision Output
When the right move isn't a single recommendation, what kind of response a system should give instead — and how to make every response, including a refusal, structured and reproducible.
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The Learning Boundary
Which parts of a system that learns from experience may safely improve, and which must stay fixed so a hard constraint is never crossed while it learns.
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A fifth paper completes the set
Part of the program, deliberately not described — for this one the subject itself is the protected result. Its content stays sealed until the filing is in place.