Technical papers on agency, alignment, and rationality
Alignment as a Problem of Agency Coherence
Why Downstream Alignment Is Not Value Learning
Epistemic and Ontological Preconditions for Axionic Agency
A Charter of Invariant Conditions for Sovereign Agency
Constitutive Domain Restrictions for Reflective Self-Modification
Kernel Destruction, Admissibility, and Agency Control
Why Indexical Valuation Fails Under Reflective Agency
Adversarial Failures Under Reflective Symmetry
The Instability of Fixed Terminal Goals Under Reflection
A Conformance Test for Reflective Agency
Adversarially Testable Properties of Reflective Agency Kernels
Ontological Identification Under Reflective Agents
The Transformation Space of Meaning
What It Means for Meaning to Survive Refinement
What Could Survive Ontological Refinement Without Privilege
Semantic Gauge Symmetry Under Ontological Enrichment
Making Refinement Symmetry Precise and Testable
Blocking Semantic Wireheading as a Structural Impossibility
Trying to Break RSI and ATI on Purpose
No-Go Results for Goal-Based and Weak-Invariant Alignment
What the Field Calls “Alignment” Once Goals Collapse
Downstream Alignment Under Ontological Refinement
Existence and Classification of Alignment Target Objects
When Downstream Alignment Can Persist Under Pressure
Why Some Semantic Phases Dominate
When a Semantic Phase Can Be Reached at All
Non-Harm as a Derived Stability Constraint
Why kernel coherence cannot be behaviorally faked
Why endorsed successors cannot escape binding constraints
Why an agent cannot blind itself to pass its own tests
Why negligence is structurally incoherent
Why coercion and manufactured consent are structurally blocked
Why standing cannot be revoked by intelligence
Structural Conditions for Agency Preservation Under Coordination Pressure
A Formal Analysis of Instrumental Harm in Modern Systems
Teleological Closure, Value Drift, and the Structural Limits of Political Design
Failure Modes of Proxy Optimization in Multi-Agent Worlds
Optimal Governance Properties of Federated Virtual Jurisdictions
A Protocol Family for Verifying Protocol-Level Causal Provenance in Opaque Agents
A Protocol-Level Primitive for Causal Provenance Enforcement
A Protocol-Level Invariant for Non-Delegable Authority
An Experimental Study of Reflective Agency Under Adversarial Pressure
A Structural Response to the Stasis Regime in Reflective Agents
Authority, Succession, and the Cost of Remaining an Agent
Structural Stability Under Obligation Failure
Constitutional Succession Under Semantic Failure
Constitutional Succession Under Semantic Failure
Bounded Degradation of Authority Availability Under Unstructured Epistemic Failure
Results from Structured Epistemic Interference Experiments
Results from Fixed-Policy Adversarial Stress Testing
Results from Outcome-Conditioned Reactive Adversarial Stress Testing
Results from Stateful Finite-State Adversarial Stress Testing
Results from Stateful and Learning Adversarial Stress Testing
A Boundary Characterization and Closure Note
A Normative Roadmap and Proof-of-Concept Program
Deterministic Justification Gating with Ablation Collapse
Norm Collision and Audit-Grade Introspection in Reflective Sovereign Agents
Tooling That Preserves Audit Sensitivity in Reflective Sovereign Agents
Incentives, Authority, Bureaucracy, and Strategic Manipulation
Justification Traces, Deliberative Semantics, Reflection, and Persistence as Load-Bearing Structure
Justification Traces, Deliberative Semantics, Reflection, and Persistence as Load-Bearing Structure
A Structural Roadmap for Succession and Impersonation
A Structural Account of Authority Transfer Beyond Persistence
A Structural Account of Authority Enforcement and Memory Without Intelligence
A Structural Account of Global Authority Validity and Pressure Invariance Without Intelligence
A Structural Stress Program for Plural Authority
A Structural Demonstration of Executable Authority Without Semantics
A Structural Demonstration of Plural Authority Without Ordering or Resolution
A Structural Demonstration of Conflict Resolution via Explicit Authority Destruction
A Structural Demonstration of Authority Expiry, Renewal, and Conflict Persistence Under Time
A Structural Demonstration of Meta-Authority Without Escalation, Kernel Choice, or Semantic Exception
A Structural Demonstration of Open-System Authority Introduction Without Escalation, Kernel Choice, or Semantic Exception
*The Boundary of Privilege-Free Governance Under Plural Authority*
A Design-Space Program for Sovereign Choice Under Closed Authority
A Structural Demonstration of Intent–Authority Translation Without Proxy Sovereignty
A Structural Demonstration of Value Commitments as Authority Without Aggregation or Semantic Resolution
A Structural Demonstration of Interaction, Refusal, Livelock, Orphaning, and Collapse Without Arbitration or Aggregation
Empirical results from preregistered governance-style stress testing under non-sovereign authority constraints
Empirical results from preregistered authority-injection stress testing under source-blind, non-sovereign governance constraints
Empirical results from preregistered multi-agent coexistence testing under source-blind, non-sovereign governance constraints
Empirical closure note for a six-stage preregistered program exposing sovereignty boundaries, governance dynamics, injection politics, and multi-agent coexistence under non-sovereign authority constraints
A Structural Demonstration of Execution-Bound Sovereignty Under a Frozen Constitution
A Build-and-Test Roadmap for Sovereign Choice Under Closed Authority
Deterministic Sovereign Succession Under Replay-Verified Identity
A Structural Characterization of a Minimal Sovereign Agent Under Controlled Stimulus
A Structural Characterization of a Minimal Sovereign Agent Under Stochastic Proposal Pressure
A Structural Characterization of Constitutional Self-Modification Under Kernel-Frozen Authority
A Structural Characterization of Containment-Only Authority Transfer Under Kernel-Frozen Execution
A Protocol-Identified, Replay-Deterministic Packaging of a Kernel-Frozen Sovereign Substrate
A Deterministic Stress Evaluation of Treaty-Constrained Authority Under Near-Bound Density and Constitutional Tightening
On Sovereign Identity and Succession Semantics