Reasoning Index

Claims

A claim is a single defensible proposition extracted from a work. Each claim can be cited, challenged, revised, or carried forward.

defended · CLAIM-000038
Authority is not conserved across an epistemic boundary.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000045
Never allow continuity of intelligence to conceal discontinuity of warrant.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000044
Jurisdiction-sensitive refusal can constitute superior epistemic performance.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000043
An outsider may acquire greater epistemic jurisdiction than an incumbent by satisfying the relevant conditions of justified reliance more successfully.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000042
Competence in one component of a heterogeneous decision does not entail jurisdiction over the whole.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000041
Where perceived authority exceeds warranted authority, an authority debt exists.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000040
Other things equal, the burden of jurisdictional reacquisition increases with jurisdictional distance.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000039
Where the conditions that justify authority change, authority survives only to the extent that its justification survives.
from The Law of Jurisdictional Reacquisition
defended · CLAIM-000030
The warrant required for contact rises discontinuously with its class, and the classes are not orderable by force magnitude.
from The Body After Intelligence
BodyTouchContact
defended · CLAIM-000031
Automating an undervalued task transfers the undervaluation rather than removing it, to the automation and to the humans who remain.
from The Body After Intelligence
LaborMaintenanceCare Ethics
defended · CLAIM-000036
Authority that cannot be verified between machines cannot govern systems operating across households, institutions, and jurisdictions.
from The Body After Intelligence
Machine-Readable PermissionInfrastructure
defended · CLAIM-000035
A dwelling's defining expectations are unstated, and are therefore violable without breach of any term the household agreed to.
from The Body After Intelligence
Household TrustConsent
defended · CLAIM-000034
The inferability of a fact about a person is not a justification for inferring it, and incidental inference is not a justification for acting on it.
from The Body After Intelligence
DignityRight to Be UncomputedPrivacy
defended · CLAIM-000033
Autonomy presented as a substitute for supervision reduces the number of answerable parties without reducing the harm, thereby transferring risk from those who profit to those subject.
from The Body After Intelligence
Chain of AnswerabilityLiability
defended · CLAIM-000032
An error shared across a population is not an anomaly but a practice, and is therefore undetectable by mechanisms that identify deviation.
from The Body After Intelligence
Fleet ActionCoordinated Embodiment
defended · CLAIM-000037
Retention converts perception into record and disclosure converts record into testimony; each transition increases moral weight and decreases the observed person's control.
from The Body After Intelligence
EvidenceRobot WitnessSurveillance
defended · CLAIM-000025
The governance a system requires is determined by the modality of its output, not by the magnitude of its capability; at the point where inference is coupled to matter, evaluation of content ceases to be sufficient.
from The Body After Intelligence
Post-Output GovernanceAction Threshold
defended · CLAIM-000026
As generality rises, the gap between what a system can do and what it may do widens without limit, and only the second admits governance.
from The Body After Intelligence
AGIWorld-PermissionAGI-Directed Fleet
defended · CLAIM-000027
Authorisation is logically prior to optimisation: no improvement in an objective can supply the standing that the act requires.
from The Body After Intelligence
AuthorityPermission
canonical · CLAIM-000028
An embodied system may act only when the proposed action is justified by task, permission, safety, privacy, dignity, reversibility, and answerability together.
from The Body After Intelligence
Embodied RelevancePermissionPhysical Answerability
defended · CLAIM-000029
Compliance is informative only if refusal is possible; a system that complies universally provides no evidence about the propriety of any particular compliance.
from The Body After Intelligence
RefusalHuman Command
proposed · CLAIM-000023
The artificial polymath has breadth without biography.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000015
Information does not contain its own rank.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000016
Relation is not relevance.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000017
Relevance is the justified priority of a relation under value, consequence, and answerability.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000018
Salience is not warrant.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000019
Attention is the first ethical field.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000020
The frame problem has become civilizational.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000021
Institutions are relevance machines.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000022
AI governance is relevance governance.
from The Architecture of Relevance
proposed · CLAIM-000024
The human role after machine breadth is the preservation of answerable relevance.
from The Architecture of Relevance
defended · CLAIM-000001
Polymathy is not the possession of many knowledges but the perception and transport of deep structure across domains.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000014
A serious work should not seek immunity from refutation, but a structure clear enough that refutation, if it comes, will be exact.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000013
The age of cheap breadth is the age in which selfhood becomes the decisive human competence.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000012
The human contribution in an age of artificial polymaths is the integration of breadth under a unified horizon of value.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000011
Relevance, warrant, and answerability are normative and teleological, not merely structural.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000010
The machine has structure without stakes.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000009
Large machine-learning systems are artificial polymaths because they supply structural breadth across domains.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000008
The tragedy of the polymathic mind is the proliferation of beginnings without completion.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000007
The genuine polymath is neither the narrow specialist nor the dilettante, but the Aristotelian mean between parochialism and shallow breadth.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000006
Specialization produces depth, but it systematically underproduces the connections between deep wells of knowledge.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000005
The brain is itself polymathic insofar as it reuses and redeploys circuitry across functions.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000004
Consilience is polymathy performed by a civilization rather than by a single person.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000003
The apparent breadth of the polymath is the surface manifestation of underlying structural depth.
from The Undivided Mind
defended · CLAIM-000002
Disciplines are administrative partitions of labor, not natural seams in reality.
from The Undivided Mind