legit-corruption-negation
leaf/question · drafted
Statement
Legitimacy and corruption are definable as negations of each other: worlds with corrupt feedback are exactly the worlds that are not truth-tracking.
Source
projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/related-chats/2026-07-05__theory-of-legitimacy__c1ab54d9.md, turn 17, the maintainer: "Can we define legitimacy and corruption as negation of each other?"; projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/notes/li-deference.md, section 0.3: "Legitimacy is just the negation of corruption: worlds with corrupt feedback aren't truth-tracking."
Notes
The two texts point opposite ways on whether bank runs fit, which is the filing session's reading; the question is whether the self-fulfilling cases are inside or outside the negation. Conditioned on the task of quoting the maintainer's 2019 predictor posts, which bear on where he puts them.
Author and human events
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Edges
Above
- given of task-predict-o-matic-quotes
- part of legit-dynamics-learning
- root (shared-claim) of legit-dynamics-learning
- given task-predict-o-matic-quotes
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Each verb opens a prefilled issue; a round files what lands as the ledger event it is.