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.
Society and governance — law, politics, policy, security and institutions — court records, doctrine, democratic theory, information operations.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-017 | precedence, jurisdiction and suspension | Three relations among rules that are easily conflated: precedence orders applicable constraints, jurisdiction governs which apply, suspension governs when an applicable one may be disabled (Section 5.3). | Active |
| TERM-064 v4 | legibility, of a distinction to an observer for a task: whether the observer, with the rules, categories and resources it actually has, can recover the distinction from what it is given and bring it to bear on the task; a relation among a representation, an observer’s rule class, its resources and a task, bounded above by what the source makes possible for an ideal receiver, and directed, since what is legible to a governing institution and what of its governing is legible to others are different relations | The owner’s, U22 of the exchange of 2026-10-20: “a theme we seem to be touching on that I’m not sure is laid out clearly in our current account is the role of legibility”. A22 defined it and proposed three TERMs; one is filed, with the regime and the direction in its body. Its formal core is CLAIM-199’s usable information. CLAIM-081 holds the record’s earlier use. Adopted by the owner on 2026-10-21. It recurs through A23 to A27. | Active |
| TERM-066 v5 | interpretive capture, of an organization’s evaluation: the condition in which the processes that read evidence, score constituents and allocate authority are driven by the interpretation or party being evaluated more than by evidence independent of it, so that authority amplifies or holds an interpretation without a gain in fidelity; judged against a standard specified apart from the captured process | The record uses “capture” in several entries (CLAIM-330, CLAIM-340, CLAIM-342, CLAIM-359, QUESTION-100, CLAIM-277) with no definition, and the exchange of 2026-10-20 used it at A20, A21, A22, A25 and A26 in two senses: a loop’s outcome, and an institution’s diversion from its purpose. Proposed: the first, with the second’s requirement of an outside standard. Not adopted; not concentration, and not merited trust. | Proposed |
| TERM-085 v2 | correctability, of an institutional arrangement for a corrective objective: the chance that the arrangement, starting from the description of the problem it actually has, finds, authorizes, coordinates and carries out a plan achieving the objective before the deadline and within its resources | A10’s α_J, from the exchange of 2026-10-26, on the owner’s U10 tying the “correctability frontier” to “if I can’t find it, it isn’t there”. It is TERM-055’s operational availability with a corrective objective in place of a resource and an institutional arrangement in place of an agent: search, authorization, coordination and execution compete for the same time. Named because the exchange used the object in four turns (A7 to A10) under “remedial reach”, “effective remedial capacity”, “effective answerability” and “correctability frontier”. Adopted 2026-10-29. | Active |