step-legitimacy-conditioned-trust
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Statement
The trust principle holds under the additional condition that the teaching channel is legitimate and not otherwise, and the agent's beliefs about which modifications are legitimate are accurate enough, at the relevant capability, for the conditioned principle to be the right target.
Source
projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement.md, "corrigibility as legitimacy-conditioned learning": reflection is required with respect to the plausible future beliefs, conditioned on legitimacy, not absolutely, and capability should grow only as the agent's concept of legitimacy improves. The accuracy clause is a reconstructed assumption drawn from that last condition.
Notes
The candidate objectives attach here through the cases node legit-objective-proposals, which states them as pictures; this leaf is conditioned on it.
Author and human events
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Edges
Above
- part of deference-toward-bounded-agents
- given of legit-objective-proposals
- root (plan) of deference-toward-bounded-agents
- given legit-objective-proposals
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