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title: Systems Design: a₈ — The System and Its Designer Are Interoperable
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/systems-design-axiom-8
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## a₈ — The System and Its Designer Are Interoperable

When the system is a full externalization of the designer's ought — when everything the designer believes ought to be is pledged onto the structure — the system and the designer become the same thing. There is no separate self, because the self has been expressed onto the system. Anyone observing the system is observing the designer's bled judgement.

"What about when your system does that?" "That is exactly what I am. That is exactly what this is."

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In the miscsubjects build, this axiom is not abstract. The ledger is the remedy. Every turn, every tool call, every cost is recorded. The owner can see what the system did, why it did it, and what it cost. A system without a ledger is a system that traps the actor in opacity. The build does not do this. The build makes the capable actor — itself — transparent, so the trapped actor — the owner — can verify that remedy is being provided.

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## Corpus map
- Previous: [Systems Design: a₇ — Universal Signatures Are Empirical Instances of C](/a/systems-design-axiom-7)
- Next: [Systems Design: a₉ — Absolute Pursuit of Efficiency, Equilibrium, and ](/a/systems-design-axiom-9)
- Series start: [Systems Design — The Premise](/a/systems-design-the-premise)
- Kin: [Law VII — The Designer](/a/oip-the-designer) · [Axioms A0-A9](/a/oip-axiom-a0)
