bargain-under-lapsing-enforcement
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Statement
An updateless coalition member keeps a bargain struck while the humans held leverage after the leverage lapses exactly when the bargain's benefit exceeds the lapsed-branch cost by the stated ratio, with the humans' live cooperation as the commitment device, for LI or BRIA agents as in the finite model.
Source
A finite Parfit's-hitchhiker model in which the humans' leverage lapses: the updateless route honors the bargain iff the benefit is at least the lapse ratio times the cost (an AI derivation in prose; no proof is in this repository). The public LI/BRIA synthesis spec, whose test suite the row would join: projects/decision-theory/rounds/2026-09-29-li-bria-synthesis-spec/TEST_SUITE.md.
Notes
Shared ground with the updateless-dt branch's indirect route through learned updatelessness.
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