Talk:Observable Behavior Rule
Calibration Report - 2026-07-14 (v0.2)
Reviewer: Sovereign Review Type: Self-Assessment, informed by two-round multi-model round-robin (ChatGPT, Grok)
Summary of Changes
- Tightened "Why This Rule Exists": "cannot be reliably observed" replacing a phrasing that risked implying motive is metaphysically nonexistent — a stronger, contestable claim the rule doesn't need to make. Independently caught by ChatGPT.
- Added Rule Application Note with a concrete worked example (one-off raised voice vs. consistent escalation pattern) — guards against the rule being misapplied to single ambiguous actions rather than genuine patterns. The underlying gap was independently caught by both ChatGPT and Grok; the specific worked example came from Grok's pass.
- Reframed "Relationship to Reality Override Game" from parallel/counterpart framing to a nested one: this rule restricts what counts as admissible evidence within Reality Override's broader discipline, rather than sitting beside it as a separate principle. Independently caught by ChatGPT.
- Added Related Principles section, cross-linking Diagnostic Inversion Test (both the general and Slave Owner Game-specific versions) — clarifies that Observable Behavior Rule governs what counts as evidence, while Diagnostic Inversion Test governs whether that evidence is applied fairly. Added per Grok's structural suggestion.
- Added Open Items logging two proposed future additions (formal calibration protocol, red-flag language patterns) — explicitly deferred rather than built now, consistent with this project's standing discipline against expanding scope mid-freeze.
- Declined a rename proposed independently by both reviewers ("Consequence-Based Diagnosis Rule" and similar) — noted as a real signal that the opening sentence may not immediately convey the rule's function to a first-time reader, but treated as a clarity problem to solve in the text, not a naming problem.
- instrument_grade raised from Experimental to Confirmed, on the basis of two-round convergence between independent reviewers landing on the same core fixes without prompting — treated as meaningful independent-agreement signal, consistent with the standard already applied to Slave Owner Game's own structural freeze.
- This page now formally satisfies the live dependency created when Slave Owner Game linked to it as if it existed, per the project's "treat as made" convention. That dependency is now real, not a placeholder.
instrument_grade: Confirmed
calibration_rationale: Two-round round-robin with full convergence on three independently-proposed fixes across two separate reviewers — a stronger signal than single-reviewer agreement. Structure considered stable. Not raised further because the underlying rule has only one worked example and no real-world application history yet. review_confidence: High
Validation: Low (unchanged)
Structurally sound and reviewed, but not yet applied in a real diagnostic case beyond the one illustrative example included on the page itself.
Fields Changed
instrument_grade: Experimental → Confirmed Added: Rule Application Note (with example), Related Principles, Open Items Relationship to Reality Override Game: reframed from parallel to nested/restrictive
Open Items
- Formal calibration protocol for applying this rule to a case — not yet built, deferred per project owner's discipline against premature scope expansion.
- "Red flag" language patterns signaling motive-based reasoning — not yet drafted.
- This page's `depends_on` remains empty and its Calibration Dependencies section states "not calibration-dependent" — correct as a foundational principle, but worth revisiting once Slave Owner Game and other dependent pages are further along, to confirm the relationship stays one-directional as intended.
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