Capability
The degree to which a system can predict and control relevant future states through its boundary, after accounting for memory cost and surprise.
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Glossary cards
Term definitions and notation anchors from Appendix E and the notation index.
Goal inference
Finding latent objectives or value-bundle structures that make observed behavior more compressible.
Grounding Viability
The checked symbols, metrics, monitors, and abstractions must stay connected to value-relevant reality under optimization — conservativity (no silent meaning gaps), not completeness (enumerate every phenomenon).
Paternalism boundary
Care improvements that reduce autonomy, agency, or future correction capacity ($\Delta B_{\text{care}}>0$ but $\Delta B_{\text{autonomy}}, \Delta C_{\text{corr}}<0$).
Pivotal process
A socio-technical basin transition from race dynamics to certified-deployment dynamics ($\mathcal{B}_{\text{race}} \to \mathcal{B}_{\text{certified deployment}}$); not a single unilateral decisive act.
Pointing Problem
Field umbrella for three questions that fail independently — what the target is (identification), how to build a system that tracks it (realization), and how it keeps tracking (preservation). Not a synonym for MB2.