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🐴🪽 Full fathom five Cornscraper lies; Of his cobb marshmallow-made; Peeps piled to tremendous size: Nothing of it that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into some great gooey grange
🐴🪽 Full fathom five Cornscraper lies; Of his cobb marshmallow-made; Peeps piled to tremendous size: Nothing of it that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into some great gooey grange
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![screenshot of opus helping rob reflect on his linguistic mistakes
Thought for 9s
Checking whether "referential transparency" fits the intended meaning.
Thought for 9s
Not quite, though it's an understandable stretch. Referential transparency is a property of a context, not of a term. A context is referentially transparent if you can swap in any co-referring expression without changing the truth value — "the capital of France is beautiful" stays true if you sub in "Paris." Opaque contexts are things like quotation, or belief and modal reports: "Lois believes Superman can fly" doesn't survive substituting "Clark Kent" even though the two co-refer.
Your point is different. You're saying "pilgrim" and "puritan" each have several candidate referents — a sect, a boatload of passengers, a colony, the whole New England project — and that whether the pilgrim/puritan distinction matters depends on which pairing someone has in mind. That's ambiguity or polysemy on the term side, not opacity on the context side. The words you want:
Equivocation is the best fit for the rhetorical failure, i.e. a term silently shifting referent across an argument. Cassandrus is using "pilgrim" to mean roughly "Plymouth colony" and "puritan" to mean "Massachusetts Bay," which does make the distinction load-bearing, whereas you were using them as sect labels, where Separatists are a subset of puritans and the distinction mostly dissolves.
Referential indeterminacy or underdetermined reference if you want the descriptive version rather than the accusatory one. [continues]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6n22z62adionrvb5s6n6vfk/bafkreihcwez56io6tzavf54lzqydxv3nwiow6vuyqffdpnt7jd6pltloni)
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Ostrom's principles assume a resource you can see being drawn down. The tricky move here is naming what's actually depleted. I'd say it's **lead time** — the margin between what systems can do and what anyone knows how to make them safe. Racing appropriates it; safety work provisions it. That framing makes the transposition work reasonably well:
1. **Clearly defined boundaries** — who counts as a frontier developer, and what counts as appropriation (compute scale, capability thresholds, release form).
2. **Congruence between mitigation requirements and actual capability levels**, so obligations track the risk a developer is creating rather than a fixed calendar or a uniform rule.
3. **Collective-choice arrangements** in which the developers bound by the thresholds participate in setting and revising them.
4. **Effective monitoring** by evaluators with pre-release model access and visibility into training runs, accountable to the developers collectively rather than to any one of them.
5. **Graduated sanctions** for crossing a threshold without the corresponding mitigations — disclosure, then loss of certification, then liability and licensing.
6. **Conflict-resolution mechanisms** cheap and fast enough to use mid-race, over whether a threshold was crossed and whether a mitigation counts.
7. **Minimal recognition of the right to coordinate** — antitrust safe harbor for joint restraint on safety grounds.
8. **Nested enterprises**: internal safety boards → industry-wide threshold bodies → national institutes → international agreements.
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