vingean-as-blackwell-dominance

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Statement

An observer is in a Vingean position toward a better-informed agent when the agent's experiment refines the observer's and Blackwell value-of-information monotonicity holds on an outcome abstraction across a family of menus; coarse predictability with fine unpredictability alone is not enough, as a thermostat shows.

Source

projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/findings/lateral.md, §2.2–2.4: "Claim (Vingean agency = quantified Blackwell dominance — SKETCHED at the §1.1 level)" and the thermostat counterexample; projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/report/RESEARCH-REPORT.md, row D11 ("SKETCHED / INTERPRETATION + thermostat counterexample").

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AI-written in the deference lab, unvetted. The menu-family clause is the repair the thermostat forced.

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