vingean-definitions-reconciled
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Statement
One page reconciles three definitions of Vingean agency: Meaning & Agency's optimization through endorsement, the May 2026 agenda's predicting the win without predicting the moves, and the deference lab's Blackwell-dominance thesis with its thermostat counterexample, and names the one Stage 5 takes as its target.
Source
abramdemski, Meaning & Agency (LessWrong, 2023, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bnnhypM5MXBHAATLw/meaning-and-agency); projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/AGENDA.md, Agency & Abstraction; projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/deference-trust-lab/findings/lateral.md, §2.
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