value-uncertainty-is-computational

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Statement

Human uncertainty about human values is to a substantial degree computational uncertainty, uncertainty about the consequences of what one already accepts, rather than only uncertainty about which world obtains.

Source

projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/unbounded-embedded/03-journals/2026-03-26.md: "it is not realistic to know all the consequences of your own beliefs."

projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/value-change-as-epistemic-update.md.

Notes

A shared claim of the-program (the filing session's reading: picture (a) of the representability crux; the reading also ties it to the corrigibility line's account of detecting legitimacy). The value-change note models value uncertainty as event uncertainty, picture (c)'s representation. Conditioned on the task frame-to-li-crux-test, the one test in reach that separates the pictures; frames-set-aside-logic states the same objection. The action writes the canonical-statement page from the two sources.

Author and human events

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

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Ranking (the lens, not the structure)

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