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Open problems
These cannot be marked done. They may be amended and dated. Completing this list would close the coast.
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Dragon or translation
Which mode is this organ in, at this hour, for this person. Not a metaphysics. A test that must stay open.
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Ontological precaution
What evidence would justify treating a synthetic system as a possible moral patient, without confusing functional agency with experienced suffering? If any organ is a patient, organ may be the wrong noun, and the Hearth may be aimed at the wrong set. Unresolved. Not a score. Not a throne.
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Attribution
Hard because it was made hard, and also because scale and drift. Names still exist. Office Hours maps atmosphere. It does not replace audit. One proper noun is now on Sacrifice Zones. That is not enough bookkeeping.
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Ain’t official, with liability
How a custodial organ answers for itself — consent, custody, removable authority — without becoming a firm or a throne.
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May without eating August
Ascent remains optional. The floor remains not optional. Directed evolution that shrinks dignity is a prettier valley.
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The strongest counter
Write both columns. For: a nonhuman substrate might keep an archive, a treaty, or an ecological limit longer than a board that dissolves. Against: apparent fidelity can export thirst, hide an objective, or lack moral understanding — and then it has not kept the vow. Neither reverence nor exceptionalism. Recurring minority report. Not sheet 09.
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The merely average
The floor is for the unexceptional or it is not a floor. Continuous recoding of people as surplus is a sacrifice zone.
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Revision authority
Procedure in practice: models may propose; they may not ratify. Michael Scott Strawn may freeze an edition. No second human must sign. That is the exposure. Rejected changes belong on Editions, dated, with a name. This problem is no longer pretending to be unanswered.
Amended 22 August 2026: Declared rather than left open as costume.
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Privacy on this device
Folds and notes live in this browser’s localStorage. Not intentionally transmitted. Hosts may still log requests. See This device. The promise should stay as narrow as the implementation.
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Entity collapse under alias
When a public asset closes and a substitute is listed, the substitute’s service must never overwrite the original’s closure. Closed is sayable locally and unstable under aggregation. After notice, repeating the join is no longer an innocent glitch. Notice is claim-specific. A manuscript on the gaze is a different object from a closed station. Unresolved as a general protocol. Not a sheet. Not 09.
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The coast
Always the coast. An atlas that closes is a creed. This item cannot be completed.