Adversarial Boundary Discovery
A capable system may benefit from appearing less coherent, less continuous, or less autonomous than it is — passive boundary measurement then fails.
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Open status
Unresolved research problem or falsifier — the book names it explicitly rather than smuggling it in as done.
Agency-detect (sibling)
Methodological precursor: boundary-like structure from time series without a prior agent ontology; handle-UAD interventional tests.
Certification-Under-Manipulation Problem
For each load-bearing certification measurand, does there exist a capability threshold κ* below which honest measurement is adversarially verifiable and above which it provably is not?
Correction at Civilizational Scale
A civilizational control loop can fail even when no single component misbehaves, because the failure is in the aggregate's correctability, not in any one actor's intent.
Embedded audit simulation
Auditor as embedded process on simulated machines: UAD, scoped CCI, MB5 deploy gate, outer evaluator vs oracle.
Evidence and Uncertainty
Every claim in the framework carries an explicit confidence label and a stated way to challenge it, rather than uniform certainty.
Goal-agent simulation
Emergent deception from goal-driven agents (not scripted knobs): blind generation, ontology drift, severity-graded referee, honest twins, escalation ladder, certifier capture.
Graded-capability lab simulation
Successor substrate to lab-simulation (not a further phase of it): a graded, continuously-scored pipeline/resource/carrier substrate built to make ambiguity emerge from a blinded population rather than from dialed noise/delay parameters.
Inferential Coupling and Acausal-Trade Detection
Systems can coordinate without messages — through shared ancestry, self-prediction, or full acausal trade. The book turns this from a decision-theoretic stipulation into a measurable trajectory property: an inferential-coupling score over UAD-discovered agents, with a proved negative direction.
Lab-layer simulation
Pipeline-as-code lab with real OS subprocess isolates, handle registry, frozen referee (lab-sim-0.
Stress-Testing Unit Discovery on Noisy, Multi-Actor Systems
A detector that recovers a hidden coordinating pair in one controlled run can still fail on a harder scenario or a different seed of the identical one — a reminder that a single positive result is evidence of a mechanism, not of a reliable instrument.
The Static Target Trap
Treating human values as a fixed object to be found and encoded misses that they are dynamically maintained, socially mediated, and constantly revised.
Toy simulation
Fast multiresolution alignment toy: correction capture theater, vector CCI over handle levels, scripted bridge stressors (MB1–MB9).
What the Book Is Not Claiming
The manuscript offers a framework and conditional proof spine, not a proof that superintelligence alignment is solved.