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.
Learning and conditioning — how organisms learn from contingencies and consequences — Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning, reinforcement and reward learning in brains, habit and goal-directed control, behaviour analysis and relational responding. Not machine learning, which is learning-theory or the anthology (ADR-025).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAIM-234 v3 | The record’s iterated-learning readings bear on lexical, structural and functional transmission, and none measures stance, footing or speech-act function along a chain | Found in the record’s audit of the line on 2026-10-10 (empirical lens); no turn of the exchange raises it. CLAIM-068 extends iterated learning “to speaker footing and communicative conventions”, and no reading the record holds measures a stance or a speech-act function under transmission. Bartlett is unread, and the transmission-chain work on social and affective content is not in the record. Granted: it is a reading of the record. It is minor because CLAIM-068 is off the central chains, and it does not say stances are not stabilized by transmission. | Superseded — by ARG-027 |
| CLAIM-443 v3 | A learned prior over which processes govern, P(g | z, H) ∝ exp(βQ(g, z) + b_H(g, z)), its bias b_H trained by reward-modulated Hebbian updates to the relations by which one process recruits or endorses another, is a candidate mechanism for durable authority and for amortized governance; but persistence is not amortization, which is shown only when earlier work replaces later computation, communication or recruitment, and a prior over authority differs from a prior over actions only when what is appropriate changes | The owner’s, 2026-10-23, on whether practice could reconstruct relations of practical authority: “what if we just treat this as a kind of momentum term? or like a hebbian prior?” Worked through the same day (workbench entry of 2026-10-24, U9–U12). Momentum is read as switching cost, the Hebbian prior as a learned bias over allocations of authority, and two limits are kept: persistence is not amortization, and a prior over authority must be told from a prior over actions. | Active |