Architecture Memoranda
The foundational laws governing the thermodynamic trust infrastructure.
Series initiated 2026
"An embedded agent acts on a world it can only partially observe, through actions it cannot fully reverse, using measurements it cannot fully trust."
Accountability Under Partial Observation and Irreversible Action
The integrated framework for world-coupled agency. Outlining the operational ledger, context-local authority, and the constitutional order required for systemic corrigibility.
Author: Ben Sobczak · Status: Working Draft · 2026
Thermodynamic Constraints on World-Coupled Agency
Formalizing irreversible world change, physical accounting, and exact stochastic-thermodynamic realization via finite-state Markov jump processes.
Author: Ben Sobczak · Status: Working Draft · 2026
Measurement, Uncertainty, and Context-Local Authority
Governing context-local authority, uncertainty-sensitive action scope, and explicit protection against measurement self-deception.
Author: Ben Sobczak · Status: Working Draft · 2026
A Constitutional Framework for Corrigible Agency
The required constitutional order for evidence, revision, override, and fallback when contradiction outruns admissible self-repair.
Author: Ben Sobczak · Status: Working Draft · 2026