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mart-implies-value-kernel

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Statement

For every efficiently describable sequence of finite menus and every fixed index i, the novice asymptotically weakly prefers following the expert to committing to any fixed option: E^H_n(Ŝ_n) ≳_n E^H_n(O^i_n), which is Value of the novice toward the expert.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/wiki/mart-implies-value.md, Statement: "by the novice's own current lights, 'let the expert decide' is asymptotically weakly preferred to committing to any fixed option — Value". Status: "KERNEL-CHECKED — DeferenceArgmax.value_argmax_asymptotic (in LeanDeference.lean)".

Notes

A formal result: the record is the kernel-checked composition, the bridge says what its three hypotheses mean, and the four discharging claims are the children the record's hypotheses field names. hUM_S is discharged by the gap-bet tower, the expert's knowledge of its own estimates and the ledger-decided tie-break together; hMon by expectation provability induction for the novice; hCee by the gap-bet tower on the fixed option.

The page's own caveat is the line the completeness leaf carries: the kernel certifies the composition, and the tower steps, the market and the traders are unmodeled.

Bridge card

A conjunct of the informal claim li-deference-collapse: For a novice logical inductor and an inductor expert whose day-n estimates are published decided facts, Total Trust of the novice in the expert over the gap-closed class of expert-referencing bets implies Mart (the tower) on that class, and Mart on that class implies Value (argmax deference on menus drawn from it).

Declaration DeferenceArgmax.value_argmax_asymptotic (record mart-implies-value-kernel.record)

Bridge (formalizer-stated; mart-implies-value-kernel.bridge, drafted):

The three real-sequence hypotheses of the declaration are the page's three named steps: hUM_S is the tower on the followed strategy composed with the F1 carry, hMon is expectation provability induction applied to M_n ≥ m^i_n, and hCee is the tower on the fixed option, so AsympLE Eoi ES is the Value inequality.

Hypotheses, read:

Completeness (mart-implies-value-kernel.complete): No premise beyond the kernel-checked composition, its bridge and the four listed discharging claims is needed for Value to hold on menus drawn from the gap-closed class.

What remains (li-deference-collapse.improvable)

The logical-induction deference collapse, in which Total Trust implies the tower and the tower implies Value, can be improved until it reflects a human epistemic process deferring to a distinct, faster AI inductor it gives feedback to, on questions that may mention the AI's outputs well.

Author and human events

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

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Children

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