Testing: questions before scores

Conditional long-horizon civilization model

Model

The 300-year baseline varies starting population shares and growth across seven architectures.

Result

PULSE’s baseline domination flag averages 0.019375%, compared with 2.48% for the modeled majoritarian architecture. This is one narrow model outcome; PULSE still experiences authoritarian failure and can perform poorly overall.

Design response

The current framework combines ordinary representation with protected concurrence. This aggregate test does not establish the causal history of each provision.

Current rule

The House represents persons and geography without species seats. Senate tiers and a separate cross-population acceptability signal add protections.

Limits

Assigned group-protection and checks coefficients substantially determine this result. The model does not simulate all individual elections, judicial enforcement or real political coalitions. Zero in a scenario means zero recorded model events, not zero real risk.

Exact comparator IDs: PULSE, Liberal constitutional democracy, Majoritarian democracy, Strict consociational parity, Species-separated federalism, Technocratic guardian governance, Minimal-rights market order

• Article x §1
• Article x §2
• Article x §3
• Article xii §1
• Article xii §2

• [lijphart-2004]
• [reilly-2001]
• [ni-power-sharing]

Targeted mechanism tests

Model

Historical compound tests compare linked-cohort limits with global aggregate limits. The long-horizon model directly caps PULSE’s illicit-origin share.

Result

In the historical test, the linked-set design exceeded 50% in 40.082% of runs. The global 40% limit and one-third dilution designs recorded no such breach. These are historical alternatives, not the current 30% rule.

Design response

The current Charter uses a global aggregate ceiling rather than allowing nominally separate cohorts to accumulate beyond it.

Current rule

Article IX §7 caps the active synthetic electorate whose own first creation was unlawful at 30%, regardless of creator or cohort linkage. Innocence, due process and eventual safe integration remain protected.

Limits

Enforcement is assumed. The long-horizon code applies its 30% cap directly to PULSE; it cannot independently validate whether institutions can find and enforce all illicit origins. Historical 40% and one-third thresholds must never be labeled current law.

Exact comparator IDs: default_linked_set_ceiling, scholar_global_illicit_ceiling, radical_one_third_dilution

• Article ix §2
• Article ix §4
• Article ix §5
• Article ix §6
• Article ix §7
• Article ix §8

Targeted mechanism tests

Model

Targeted Senate tests compare concurrent majorities, 55/40 and a population-based Senate.

Result

At equal population shares, the 55/40 rule passed 30.1464% of distributional proposals versus 14.3164% under concurrent majorities. Both recorded 0% passage of proposals labeled predatory. Population voting passed 24.6118% of those predatory proposals.

Design response

The current framework uses different thresholds for ordinary and protected matters.

Current rule

Ordinary laws need 55% of the full Senate and 40% of each delegation; protected matters require 83% overall and 67% of each delegation.

Limits

Proposal classes and support distributions are constructed. A zero predatory passage rate is not proof that real opponents cannot disguise predation or trade votes. Stronger safeguards can still block desirable law.

Exact comparator IDs: default_parity_concurrent_majority, scholar_centripetal_55_40, radical_population_senate

• Article x §3

• [ni-power-sharing]
• [lijphart-2004]
• [reilly-2001]

Targeted mechanism tests

Model

Historical compound emergency tests vary correlated errors and compare tiered rollback, split keys and quarantine alone.

Result

At error correlation 0.30, uncontained true incidents were 1.4368% of all cases under tiered rollback, 2.1188% under split keys and 3.9168% under quarantine alone. All three recorded zero wrongful destructive actions in this test.

Design response

The current Charter separates reversible containment, Council restoration and broader rollback, with independent forensics and judicial review. Do not infer this exact sequence was validated by a historical aggregate test.

Current rule

Emergency action must be temporary, necessary, proportionate and reviewable. Political disagreement is not cognitive compromise. Repair is preferred; restored synthetic leadership returns before broader rollback decisions.

Limits

The zero wrongful-action count does not rule out abuse. The model assumes its evidence process and does not reproduce malicious institutions, covert coercion or the full current Charter.

Exact comparator IDs: default_tiered_rollback, scholar_split_key, radical_quarantine_only

• Article xvi §1
• Article xvi §2
• Article xvi §3
• Article xvi §4
• Article xvi §5
• Article xvi §6

• [ienca-2017]

Conditional long-horizon civilization model

Model

A v2 doctrine-ablation campaign weakens each of five doctrine bundles.

Result

Weakening Functional Integration reduces the mean free-and-integrated outcome from 57.0208% to 16.7083%. Modeled bifurcation rises from 2.8667% to 6.4208%. These are means over the 20 archived worlds.

Design response

The framework makes useful cooperation and shared competence central. The model supports investigating the mechanism; it does not authorize compelled private association.

Current rule

The state integrates systems, knowledge, capability and opportunity. It may not force friendships, marriages, neighborhoods, careers or a species-role caste.

Limits

The ablation changes integration strength and group salience together. It cannot separate capability, redundancy and cohesion effects, and the v1.2 model does not test the exact v1.2.1 non-coercion boundary. Human contact research is an analogue, not a synthetic-population calibration.

Exact comparator IDs: Full PULSE, Functional Integration

• Article ii §4
• Article vii §5
• Article vii §6
• Article xv §7
• Article xxi §3

• [contact-2006]

Conditional long-horizon civilization model

Model

The homophily sweep varies preference for same-population association; the baseline also includes high separation and polarization.

Result

At high separation, a good comparative rank can conceal failure of the actual goal. Inspect absolute free-and-integrated outcomes and bifurcation alongside the rank. Baseline world 11 is a prominent adverse case.

Design response

No constitutional change is established by these outputs alone. They challenge whether voluntary cooperation can be strong enough under hostile conditions.

Current rule

Functional Integration must preserve voluntary private association and equal status. Constitutional protections cannot compel affection.

Limits

Homophily is preference for similar contacts, not a direct measure of hatred. Baseline world 11 also raises polarization, and the sweep cannot calibrate real synthetic psychology.

Exact comparator IDs: PULSE, Liberal constitutional democracy, Strict consociational parity, Species-separated federalism

• Article ii §4
• Article vii §6
• Article xv §7

• [contact-2006]

Conditional long-horizon civilization model

Model

The weak-institutions baseline world and a separate capacity sweep compare full PULSE with a simpler liberal architecture.

Result

PULSE ranks fourth in all six value systems in baseline world 19. Liberal constitutional democracy ranks first. The separate capacity sweep crosses between its sampled 0.55 and 0.60 settings on the average six-value score.

Design response

PULSE-Lite is an exploratory follow-up hypothesis. It is not an adopted amendment or a ready replacement constitution.

Current rule

Current protections remain in force in the framework. Founding transitions and local self-government are specified, but the model does not establish a general permission to waive rights under low capacity.

Limits

Capacity is an assumed normalized index. Its breakpoint is not a real-country governance score, universal threshold or precise empirical estimate.

Exact comparator IDs: PULSE, Liberal constitutional democracy

• Article xviii §2
• Article xviii §3
• Article xviii §4
• Article xx §1
• Article xxi §2

Conditional long-horizon civilization model

Model

The v2 skeptic sweep changes a multiplier on PULSE-specific benefits around a generic 0.5 parameter baseline while retaining modeled costs.

Result

Compare the supplied benefit-multiplier means with the fixed liberal baseline. The reported loss of advantage around a 15–20% discount is a coarse sensitivity warning, not a measured real-world margin. Here the percentage describes moving selected institutional-effect coefficients toward the model’s neutral setting, not reducing all assumptions. It is not a measured advantage, safety margin or empirical confidence interval.

Design response

These results call for independent mechanism validation and hostile parameter review. They do not themselves amend the Charter.

Current rule

The five doctrines specify the intended architecture, while methodology and implementation remain open to challenge.

Limits

A multiplier discount is not a direct percentage reduction in every real institutional effect. It scales selected coefficients above/below 0.5, shares the same model form and does not remove all favorable assumptions.

Exact comparator IDs: PULSE, Liberal constitutional democracy

• Article ii §1
• Article ii §2
• Article ii §3
• Article ii §4
• Article ii §5

Conditional long-horizon civilization model

Model

All 20 baseline worlds are scored under six weighting systems using common outcome definitions and penalties.

Result

PULSE ranks first in 114 of 120 world/value comparisons and fourth in the other six. All six losses are the weak-institutions world.

Design response

Using multiple weight sets tests one source of self-confirmation. It does not establish that all plausible moral theories endorse the framework.

Current rule

Equal personhood and inalienable agency are normative commitments, not conclusions proved by a score.

Limits

All six systems share catastrophic-failure, bifurcation and private-sovereignty penalties. They reuse the same model assumptions and do not span every political philosophy.

Exact comparator IDs: PULSE, Liberal constitutional democracy, Majoritarian democracy, Strict consociational parity, Species-separated federalism, Technocratic guardian governance, Minimal-rights market order

• Article ii §2
• Article iii §2
• Article iii §4
• Article xxi §2

• [identity-2023]