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vingean-principle-excludes-ro-models

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The Vingean principle, that decision procedures are trusted on general principles rather than by predicting them precisely, rules out models whose beliefs are computationally omniscient, reflective-oracle models included.

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projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/unbounded-embedded/01-primary/summer-research-plan-2026--research-ideas-may-2026.md: "the Vingean principle rules out models such as those based on reflective oracles, where beliefs are computationally omniscient."

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Why the super-Turing level needs unbounded-case-as-analogy to bear on the maintainer's tiling questions.

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

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