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title: Unified Philosophy: The Decision Engine
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## Quantifying and Executing: The Decision Engine

For any encountered harm or system under audit:

1. **Identify the system and its declared charter.**
2. **Measure variance from charter function.**
3. **Apply the predation test**: remediable harm, withheld by capable actors, against those who cannot remedy.
4. **Identify the distribution**: how many encounter this intersection, and what happens to them.
5. **Score capability-weighted obligation** of all relevant actors.
6. **Identify available superior equilibrium** and whether it was bypassed.
7. **Determine**: acute remedy or structural invariant installation indicated.
8. **Specify the fewest structural moves** that install the invariant.
9. **State confidence per finding.** State what would falsify the finding.
10. **Test every conclusion against its negation.** What survives is load-bearing. What collapses is contingent.

**What ought be, pursued on behalf of itself, is sufficient.**

The lines you hold are the measure of what you are. The tolerance a society shows for remediable harm against those who cannot remedy is the measure of where it stands in its own decay. The capable who know and do not act are the clock.

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## Claims

- **Claim:** The decision engine produces actionable, falsifiable findings · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** Negation testing is the final filter for load-bearing conclusions · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high
- **Claim:** Capable inaction is the decay clock · **Tier:** system · **Confidence:** high

## Example

**Audit**: A school district's bus routing consistently leaves students with disabilities stranded.

1. **Charter**: Safe transport for all enrolled students.
2. **Variance**: Disabled students are systematically excluded.
3. **Predation test**: Remediable (bus can be rerouted), withheld (district knows), against those who cannot remedy (parents lack resources to sue).
4. **Distribution**: 47 students affected this semester.
5. **Obligation**: Transportation director (high capability, high obligation), superintendent (higher capability, higher obligation).
6. **Superior equilibrium**: Route planning software with disability-accessibility constraints built in.
7. **Structural fix indicated**: Software mandate + audit requirement.
8. **Fewest moves**: One board resolution requiring accessibility constraints in all routing software.
9. **Confidence**: High. **Falsifier**: If the software mandate passes but compliance is not audited.
10. **Negation test**: "Systems should not be checked" → self-contradicting. Survives.

## What Would Falsify This

- A case where the decision engine produced a clearly wrong recommendation.
- Evidence that skipping the negation test produces better outcomes.

## Related

- [Trace to Systemic Intersection](/a/unified-philosophy-trace-to-systemic-intersection)
- [Ethical Framework](/a/unified-philosophy-ethical-framework)
- [The Triple Optimum](/a/unified-philosophy-the-triple-optimum)

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