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Per-claim provenance."}],"not_medical_advice":true},"slug":"udst-v1-1-logical-economics","title":"UDST: V1.1 Logical Economics","register":"oip_protocol","tags":["OIP","UDST","systems-theory","deterministic"],"updated_at":"2026-07-04T07:00:30.694Z","body_excerpt":"## The Claim\nThe valuable output of reasoning is the proof artifact, not the answer. The economic unit is logical density: surety per unit of logical energy.\n\n## Definitions\nA proof artifact is a replayable, ledgered record of a reasoning event.\nLogical energy is the total physical and symbolic cost of producing and sustaining a proof across its lifecycle.\nSurety is the product of correctness, auditability, reproducibility, and adversarial survival.\nLogical density is surety divided by logical energy.\nTask-adjusted logical density is expected verified decision value divided by total lifecycle logical cost.\nAmortization is the reduction in average proof cost as the number of valid reuses increases.\n\n## The Logic\n1. Reasoning has physical cost: compute, tokens, retrieval, context activation, verification, red-team, repair, replay, latency, human review, privacy risk, and failure risk.\n2. The valuable output of reasoning is the proof artifact.\n3. An answer is disposable. A proof artifact is durable.\n4. Surety equals correctness times auditability times reproducibility times adversarial survival.\n5. The multiplicative form is load-bearing. Any factor at zero collapses the score.\n6. Logical density equals surety divided by logical energy.\n7. Task-adjusted logical density equals expected verified decision value divided by total lifecycle logical cost.\n8. Expected verified decision value equals task stakes times correctness times auditability times reproducibility times adversarial survival times actionability times freshness.\n9. Latency is a cost, not a separate consideration. A perfect proof delivered after a deadline has zero verified decision value.\n10. Proof artifacts are bounded in validity. Reuse requires contextual similarity, dependency freshness, and verification cost below regeneration cost.\n11. Amortization reduces average proof cost as reuse increases.\n12. The cost of surety falls as proof artifacts standardize and verify quickly.\n13. The cost of alpha falls as deterministic boolean revisions undercut probabilistic search.\n\n## The Evidence\nIn the miscsubjects build, a proof artifact is a receipt. POST /api/dispatch with key NOW returns a receipt with invocation_id, request_json, response_json, ts, and story. Anyone with the receipt ID verifies the invocation by GET /api/dispatch?receipt=INV_ID. Surety is measured by the conformance suite. C1 verifies correctness. C7 verifies auditability. C10 verifies reproducibility. C14 verifies adversarial survival. Logical energy is the sum of token cost, compute cost, latency cost, human review cost, and privacy risk cost. The ledger records tokens, cost, models, and latency_ms for every invocation. The logical density of a capability is its conformance score divided by its average invocation cost. A capability scoring 15/15 at $0.10 has lower density than one scoring 14/15 at $0.001. The router elects the path by task-adjusted density. ASK_CANONICAL maps natural-language intents to deterministic capabilities, eliminating probabilistic search. Receipts replay via GET /api/dispatch?receipt=INV_ID. The ledger tracks the replay rate. If the replay rate does not exceed regeneration cost, the economic argument for proof artifacts weakens.\n\n## The Falsifier\nShow one domain where the answer is more valuable than the proof artifact. If the answer dominates the proof, the claim fails. Show one case where amortization does not reduce average cost as reuse increases. If amortization fails, the economic model fails.\n\n## The Uncertainty\nThe measurement of logical energy is incomplete. Some costs are not quantifiable. Privacy risk and failure risk are estimated, not measured. The conformance suite may not cover all adversarial attacks. 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