Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Self-governance — governing oneself by standards that are one’s own — identification and wholeheartedness, planning agency and policies, self-constitution, autonomy and authenticity, and the empirical psychology of self-endorsed motives. One of four unities kept apart (group: philosophy; ADR-024).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG-005 | The reluctant writer’s precommitment device changes what they do without changing what they want, so the conditions of efficacy govern which regime acts | The individual-scale line of support for CLAIM-027 (Sections 1, 3.5), independent of Northstar: it does not rest on the supposition that a firm is an agent. | Proposed |
| ARG-007 | Stability does not entail viability, and the emergency regime keeps its operation and its governance while its transformation capacity degrades, so effective action and the capacity to govern among regimes are different achievements | The argument for the paper’s main result (Section 6.11). Linked: all three premises are needed. Canguilhem is not among them. | Active |
| ARG-015 | A population of operators that maximize fixed objectives and comes to hold durable authority would show self-constitution | A7 and A10 propose sufficiency tests for the self-governing sense of a self, run on populations of operators each rewarded for an objective the modeller wrote down. Proposed: such a population would show that endogenous governance can arise from fixed local objectives, but “it would not show that the organization sets the conditions it maintains”, which is the constitutive part of the thesis. | Proposed |
| ARG-030 | Low supervisory cost shows that an organization does not dominate its processes | The owner tied the non-domination criterion (CLAIM-362) to a saving in effort (CLAIM-358), so low supervisory cost reads as its mark. Processes conditioned never to object coordinate without override at the same cost, so the evidence is expected whether or not the organization dominates. A45: “low strain alone cannot establish authenticity: a dominated organization can be efficient.” CLAIM-364 undercuts it. | Proposed |
| ARG-036 | The lab’s restricted models, whose predictions could have failed, support the shared-organization thesis | The lab’s later models give the shared organization restrictions that can fail, and yield predictions inside a model that could have come out wrong. Proposed, on A7 §14’s own standing objection: a framework flexible enough to redescribe any dynamical process explains none of them until it forbids some outcome, and the matched comparators so far find that the organizational vocabulary “adds no constraint that the conventional model lacks”. | Proposed |
| ARG-042 | The record’s constructions of maintained correction show that self-maintaining organizations ought to preserve their corrigibility | Filed at the owner’s question of 2026-10-31 (“no ARGs?”), under ADR-061, from the support half of CLAIM-511. The owner had asked at U24 of the exchange “Analyze nucleation concepts” whether corrigibility’s desirability had been established. The answer was no, and that answer is a verdict on support, so it is an ARG. Rejected. The constructions show what corrigibility is made of and what it costs to keep. They are equally expected whether or not it ought to be kept, so they do not bear on the conclusion. Its value is conditional (CLAIM-520, which undercuts this). | Rejected |