vingean-abstraction-candidate-definition

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Statement

An abstraction of a system is Vingean-agentic when the latent that mediates its behaviour's effect on an outcome variable is predictable while the behaviour itself is not, and this holds of a strong chess player and fails of a thermostat once menus vary.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/AGENDA.md, Agency & Abstraction (the chess example); projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/findings/lateral.md, §2.4 (the thermostat and menu-robustness).

Notes

An AI-read candidate; it should start from the lab's sketch rather than re-derive it, which the reconciliation task does.

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

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