List of plates.
Last updated 5 July 2026
Every numbered figure on the site, with a link to it and a line on what it asserts.
A note on the numbering. The front matter is unnumbered; the § sections are the argument. Fig. 00 introduces the flywheel in § 03, while Figs 01 to 03 sit inside § 02. So the plate numbers follow the argument, not the scroll: you meet Fig. 03 before Fig. 00 as you read down the page.
- Fig. 00 the flywheel
A governed decision is only a log until its action is linked to a real outcome and a real correction; the three legs together are what trains a model.
The plate encodes the honest present state: the action leg is live, the outcome and correction legs are still being closed, so the record dot stops short. No self-measured numbers are plotted.
- Fig. 01 the ceiling
You cannot vote your way to correctness. Passive consensus among correlated models saturates early; the achievable space sits far above it, and one model is one point on the curve.
Stated qualitatively. The curve, the ceiling, and the achievable space are shapes of the argument, not measured values; no self-measured numbers are plotted.
- Fig. 02 the four mechanisms
Four attention designs fail through four different mechanisms (selection, compression, decay, dilution), so a critic from a different family catches what the builder misses.
The four families are named as concepts only. No model is mapped to a mechanism, and no self-measured numbers are plotted.
- Fig. 03 verification as offset defense
Several verification mechanisms with offset gaps catch what any one would miss; forcing the gaps into alignment reveals the rare correlated failure that threads all of them.
The four mechanisms are named as concepts only. The residual path is illustrative, not a measured rate; no self-measured numbers are plotted.