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item-24

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Statement

A solution to item 24 ships the gated theorem with its exact strength named, the five verifications above each answered, and a comparison against the simpler gate on the agent's own indecision — which the squared-error decomposition supplies directly from its prices and which may already suffice.

Source

PRIORITIES.md, item 24 (Selective validity of low-error self-assessment); its context: prompts/2026-08-11-phase-ii-prediction/REPORT.md §1 and §9; prompts/2026-08-11-deference-certificates/REPORT.md §1.2; prompts/2026-08-11-corrigibility-phase-ii/PROMPT-decisions.md.

Notes

Transcribed by the map-as-canonical round (prompts/2026-10-22-map-as-canonical); the entry's text is the Item section below, rendered back into PRIORITIES.md by checkers/priorities_render.py. The Statement is drawn from the entry's own deliverable line.

This node is item 24.

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

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{
 "status": "open",
 "diagnosis": null,
 "flags": [
  "held by deference-and-trust",
  "no belief"
 ],
 "V": {
  "V_prior": null,
  "display": "2",
  "headline": 2,
  "ref": 2,
  "valid": 2,
  "weaker": "both"
 },
 "belief": null,
 "draft": "ai"
}

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