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shutdown-route-physical-channel

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Statement

The shutdown model is refined so that the correction arrives through the physical channel (hardware, loss, data) and cannot be refused in the moment, with the agent's content being its policy toward anticipated corrections.

Source

The author, projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement-v3.md, section 1.3 ("There is no special channel, there is just The Channel."); the channel frame's nodes the-channel and channel-agent-side-content.

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

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