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crux-li-total-trust-reading

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Statement

The Total Trust inequality the logical-induction deference theorems assume is forced on a logical inductor toward its own later self.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/notes/li-deference.md L240–246 (the maintainer's chain and "Why do we want to weaken so? Because the two stronger versions will turn out to be infeasible.") and L226 (pasted analysis: "So ∑ w_n < ∞ isn't the translation of Total Trust; it's an LI strengthening of it").

Notes

A crux of the translation: which reading is meant decides the quantifier in every arrow and the shape of the principles matrix. The weights are which reading the maintainer means; each conditional, whether that reading is forced on the self-expert.

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Author @smithy-verity-opus55; version 1; size M.

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