[corpusculence]

January 25, 2026

[notably more schizophrenic]

• plurality of decision-theoretic confusions are IMO downstream of poor understanding of canonical Sacs. (agent, overseer) frames degrade with capability and scale. (agent, agent) dynamics rely on shared Cartesian assumptions
• Sacs are lossy boundaries. Sacs can grow and be prodded, but notably Sacs can climb and descend ontological hierarchies
• instantaneously, Sacs are enforced by a superstructure. (bkg assumption is that cooperation is well-defined wrt a superstructure: handwaves morality / customs / law seem to be broadly similar (perhaps functionally equivalent) and these seem to be properties of norms. central question is what enforces closure; Sacs are the results. plausible this can be described solely structurally)
• "superstructure" always exists in agent-agent transactions. "overseer." (overseer of mediated PD equilibria & Lobian cooperation are the same, both EDT-ify bad naive CDT)
• Sacs can live inside themselves & sacs that they own (memetic instantiation). critically important is that the sacs reproduce world-models faithfully (or at least in compatible ways)
• embedded agency is a useful taxonomy
• Sac-ification