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object-permanence-for-latents

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Statement

A theory of latents exists in the condensation setting in which an agent keeps knowledge of, and values over, things it is not observing.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/notes/roadmap.md, Stage 4 (ontological shifts).

Notes

Filed as a question of the filing session's, from the roadmap's ontological-shift stage; the diamond-maximizer problem ties it to the corrigibility-risk branch's ontology-identification material.

Author and human events

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

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 "flags": [
  "AI number"
 ],
 "V": {
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  "display": "2",
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  "valid": 2,
  "weaker": "both"
 },
 "belief": {
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  "mid": "13/40",
  "range": [
   "0/1",
   "33/40"
  ],
  "width": "1/1"
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 "draft": "ai"
}

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