sincerity.content-fact
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Statement
The instance of `TransparentChannel.posterior_weight_eq` at `κ = id` with the speaker's belief the declared input. The comparison is with the speaker's actual policy: `Witness.lying_policy`, `content_fact_differ`.
Source
projects/deference/CLAIMS.md, entry sincerity.content-fact (class lean-proved, status active, origin round 2026-10-01-thin-legitimacy-and-effective-authority; answers item 107). Documentation: verification: projects/deference/rounds/2026-10-01-thin-legitimacy-and-effective-authority/REPORT.md; context: prompts/2026-10-01-thin-legitimacy-and-effective-authority/REPORT.md. The signature of Workspace.Deference.Contrib.Sincerity.content_fact_eq in lean/Workspace/Deference/Contrib/Sincerity.lean.
Notes
Filed by the map-as-canonical round (prompts/2026-10-22-map-as-canonical) from the registry entry and the declaration's signature. The site-vertical-slice round (projects/enabling/rounds/2026-10-24-site-vertical-slice) connected it by reading: its hypotheses are filed as leaves, its bridge names the gap between the claim and the declaration, and it is one of the twelve conjuncts of the informal claim effective-authority-layer (the effective-authority layer), a shared-claim root of authorship-and-transparency and public-corrigibility-line, rather than a node a frame holds. The registry's answers_item is the priorities pointer to item 107 (ruling F2).
Bridge card
A conjunct of the informal claim effective-authority-layer: Effective authority is modelled with a queue that cannot be bypassed, caused and flood-caused shortfalls, a comprehension shortfall, approval discounts and a revocation default, with sincerity conditions on which verdicts count.
Declaration Workspace.Deference.Contrib.Sincerity.content_fact_eq in lean/Workspace/Deference/Contrib/Sincerity.lean (record sincerity.content-fact.record)
Registry sincerity.content-fact: class lean-proved, status active, review ci-only, origin round 2026-10-01-thin-legitimacy-and-effective-authority; bears on item 107
The claim asserts that updating on the content of an utterance ("the speaker believes y") and on the fact of it give the same posterior exactly when the channel realizes the sincere reference. The declaration certifies the equality of posterior weights for every prior under that realization, as the instance of the transparent-channel theorem at the identity. The gap: the record carries the "if" direction as an identity under the hypothesis; the "only if" is the witness that a lying policy differs, a companion declaration; and the setting is the abstract channel, not a consultation row.
Hypotheses, read:
- sincerity.content-fact.h-realizes-sincere open: The utterance channel realizes the sincere reference on the speaker's belief over the domain: what the speaker says is what the speaker believes, as a property of the speaker's actual policy.
The binder `h : Realizes β b f (sincere) D`. Open: the identity holds exactly under it, and a lying policy fails it (`Witness.lying_policy`); the comparison is with the speaker's actual policy, not her beliefs about it, so nothing in the record discharges it. - sincerity.content-fact.h-setting definitional: A base map from questions and signals to worlds, a belief and an utterance policy on worlds, a domain of questions, a prior, and a question in the domain.
The binders `β`, `b`, `f`, `D`, `μ`, `y`, `q`, `hq`, `z`. Definitional: the transparent-channel setting the identity is stated in, read as one leaf.
Completeness (sincerity.content-fact.complete): No premise beyond the signature's binders enters the declaration; the kernel checks it as stated. The result is the record, the 2 hypothesis leaves filed by reading, the bridge and this leaf.
What remains (effective-authority-layer.improvable)
The effective-authority layer, in which authority is exercised through a protocol that cannot be bypassed, with caused and flood-caused shortfalls, a comprehension shortfall, approval discounts and a revocation default, and sincerity conditions on which verdicts count, can be improved until it reflects a principal whose later judgment counts as her own because the agent asks through her protocol, keeps her attention budget and takes no authority back from her well.
- item-131: The ask-list deviation is a dimension of the counted trace, so that asking off the declared protocol is tainted by the record's own counting rather than by a self-checkable clause beside it. — this is item 131
- route-authority-blackwell-converse: What item 107 leaves open behind the post is closed: Blackwell's converse for the thin specification's value clause, the loss of correctness, and the remaining items of the post's backing. — item 107
- route-authority-attention-physics: The attention budget is realized in a physics rather than given as a cost table, so that a flood shortfall and a comprehension shortfall are events the market prices, as the shortfall security prices them. — item 101
- effective-authority-layer.residual (residual): A refinement of the effective-authority layer that none of the other routes describes reflects a principal whose later judgment counts as her own because the agent asks through her protocol, keeps her attention budget and takes no authority back from her.
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size M.
No human event has touched this node.
Edges
Above
- part of effective-authority-layer
Children
- part: sincerity.content-fact.record leaf/record
- part: sincerity.content-fact.bridge leaf/bridge
- part: sincerity.content-fact.complete leaf/completeness
- part: sincerity.content-fact.h-realizes-sincere leaf/hypothesis
- part: sincerity.content-fact.h-setting leaf/hypothesis
Work pointers
Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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"draft": "ai"
}Say something about it
Each verb opens a prefilled issue; a round files what lands as the ledger event it is.