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Institutionalized Predictive Jeopardy: An Evolutionary-Game Demarcation Criterion for Knowledge Systems
Institutional knowledge systems — peer review, tenure committees, funding panels, citation markets — must decide which claims deserve resources, yet they possess no formal criterion distinguishing claims that carry prospective falsification risk from claims fitted to evidence after the fact.…
What a Fairness Audit Must Report When Demographic Labels Are Missing: Assumption-Free Disparity Intervals, a Determinacy Rule, and a Disclosure Checklist
Fairness audits of machine-learning systems publish group-level rates such as selection rates, but the protected labels those rates depend on are frequently missing for a substantial fraction of the audited population, and no settled rule says what the audit must disclose in that case. The gap is…
Appearance Under Relativistic Motion: A Quantitative Re-Examination Across Thermodynamic, Radiative, and Structural Channels
A recurring question in relativistic physics is whether a physical system "appears" the same, or in any sense invariant, to an observer moving at relativistic speed relative to it. We re-frame this question operationally: invariance of what quantity, under which measurement protocol? We analyze…
Epistemic Disturbance in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: State-Preserving Actions, Four-Valued Assessments, and the Distinction between Capability and Intention
In the graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR), a decision maker (DM) either moves the conflict to another state or does nothing, and every action that leaves the state unchanged is silently classified as inaction. Yet announcements, exercises of rights, leaks, and selective disclosures leave the…
Thermodynamic Trade-off Frontiers for Neuromorphic Processors: A Quantum-Inspired Non-Equilibrium Model of the Energy–Speed Boundary
Neuromorphic processors promise order-of-magnitude gains in energy efficiency, but no predictive framework currently connects device-level dissipation to system-level computational throughput. We develop a non-equilibrium thermodynamic model in which a neuromorphic processor is treated as a driven,…
From Statements to Questions: AI as Epistemic Repair Infrastructure
Human conflict often begins not with a lack of speech, but with speech that has hardened into statements. Statements can conceal the assumptions that make them possible: what one side takes as perception, the other experiences as accusation. This poster proposes a practical framework for using large…
Epistemic Legibility in AI-Assisted Science: Ignorance Auditing as a Governance Instrument for the Peer-Review and Evaluation Bottleneck
As AI systems take on hypothesis generation, experiment planning, analysis, and writing, the scientific ecosystem faces a new bottleneck: not production, but evaluation, verification, and governance. This position paper contributes a documented case and an instrument to that problem. The case: a…
Institutional Reform: Fixing the Epistemic Incentive Structure of Post-Classical Computing
Phase V of the Qubit Delusion series. Diagnoses the institutional incentive structure that produced the $35B quantum computing bubble with zero viable output. Analyzes the structural mismatch between VC timelines and deep tech development, the prestige cascade in academic publishing, and the…
PILE OF BABEL
Modern theoretical physics is experiencing a crisis of comprehension characterized by the proliferation of abstract, specialized terminology that obscures fundamental, intuitive concepts. This phenomenon, termed a new scholasticism, has led to a failure of conceptual compression, wherein simple…
Two-Faced Scientific Methodology
Modern scientific practice often exhibits a significant disconnect between its idealized self-image and its actual operational procedures, creating a methodological double standard. This allows dominant scientific paradigms, termed theoretical attractor states, to become deeply entrenched and…
Beyond-Belief
If you were to strip away the stained glass, the incense, the holy books, and the political manifestos; if you were to mute the hymns of the cathedral and the chants of the football stadium; if you were to look past the specific names of gods, laws, and scientific theories—what would remain? | You…
Simulated Stability and the Superdeterministic Quantum Machine
URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/simulated-stability-and-the-superdeterministic-quantum-machine/ Date: 2026-03-05 Superdeterminism is a deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics. It posits that all events are fundamentally predetermined. This includes the choices made by conscious…
Entropic-Operational Paradigm
Thesis: Gravity, spacetime, and quantum mechanics are not fundamental geometric structures, but emergent artifacts of thermodynamic information processing, necessitating the rejection of mathematical Platonism in favor of strict operational realism. Gravity is not a fundamental interaction; it is…
Hamiltonian Engineering of Topological Deconfinement in Weyl Semimetals
The theoretical existence of the magnetic monopole has long represented a foundational prediction in physics, with significant implications for technology. However, astrophysical constraints (the Parker Bound) render the extraction of cosmic monopoles physically and economically non-viable. This…
Head Over Hands
This provides a systemic analysis of a recurring philosophical and institutional bias that privileges abstract, elegant, and a priori theoretical constructs over messy, inconvenient, and empirical evidence. This pattern is defined here as the Head Over Hands Fallacy. This new term is introduced…
Proton Football
How the “God Particle” Was Demoted to Just a “Mechanism” in the Standard Model of Particle Physics*** A profound epistemological schism exists at the foundation of contemporary high-energy physics: a systemic conflict between its operational reality as a relativistic quantum field theory and the…
Risks of Pancomputationalism
This paper addresses the profound challenges inherent in developing theories of emergent spacetime, which posit that spacetime is not fundamental but arises from a deeper, pre-geometric reality. The central generative thesis is that the pursuit of this pre-geometric bedrock is fraught with two…
Universe as Self-Proving Theorem
This document establishes a Geometric Unification Framework positing that the universe is a self-proving theorem, where physical laws and fundamental constants emerge as necessary consequences of its inherent logical and geometric consistency. The framework employs category theory as its…
Information Censorship
The concept of “information” permeates contemporary discourse, from physics and biology to computer science and philosophy, yet it remains remarkably elusive and multifaceted. Dominant conceptions often address distinct aspects without necessarily forming a unified ontological picture. Shannon…
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