The Durability Curve · Instrument 05

The Potemkin Map

Some AI loops you can safely iterate on. A few you cannot, because the success signal is fakeable and the first real failure is terminal. Score your own; the map places each and hands you the move for the dangerous corner.

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The two questions
1 Could the signal be faked?
2 Is the first failure terminal?

Your loopsanswer both — the map fills in live
↑ harder to recover from  ·  first failure more terminal
Honest · irreversible
The Potemkin corner
Safe · iterate freely
Fakeable · recoverable
signal hard to fakesignal easy to fake →
The moveswhat to do, most dangerous first
Pairs the essay Your AI Looks Best Where You Can Check It Least on The Durability Curve. The two axes and the two moves are the essay's; this runs them on your own stack. It stores nothing off your machine.