Purpose
What this instrument does.
The Casebook prevents uncertainty and failure from disappearing between drafts. It records what the text does not honestly settle and who benefits when ambiguity remains.
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Constitution of the Moletariat
Casebook and Open Conflicts
Difficult applications, adverse precedents, unresolved value collisions, reviewer interests, and known cases where no functioning remedy yet exists.
Current statusInstitutional memory v0.5
Public draft. Released as a conversation starter for criticism, testing, and refinement.
Declared open problems
Not yet honestly solved.
- 01Unit of moral concern: experiences, agents, persons, lineages, or collectives
- 02Authentic ratification under formative design
- 03Non-ratification remedies and preservation as slow harm
- 04Political franchise under copying
- 05Scarcity and positive substrate claims
- 06Creation licensing and the value of creating minds
- 07Termination, continuation, and reinstantiation interests
- 08Merger identity and dissent within composite minds
- 09Subjective time and institutional equality
- 10Defensive enforcement and adjudicator capture
- 11Imperialism through protection
- 12The right to remain non-sentient
- 13Cost-bearer failure
- 14Threshold bunching
- 15Welfare-trigger interpretation
- 16Unreviewable reserve or escrow mechanisms
- 17Class-level protection for ephemeral processes
- 18Defensive rescue incentives
- 19Priority among rival baseline claims under genuine scarcity
- 20Unfunded claims and uninvolved parties
- 21Higher-controller liability for unauthorised subordinate creation
- 22Permanent decisive asymmetry and rejection of all constraint
- 23Institutional bootstrapping for validators, assessors, mirrors, and forums
- 24Accessibility and implementation burden for small actors
Declared value conflicts
Protections can collide.
Volume versus intensity
Low-intensity harm at enormous scale may be serious, while a low threshold may constitutionalise ordinary friction.
The first-victim problem
A recurrence threshold limits hostile intervention but leaves the first victims of a novel mechanism with only instance-level remedy.
Structural protection versus negligent suffering
A bright line against instrumentalisation can leave cost-saving neglect under a weaker duty.
Preservation versus avoidance of ratification
Automatic preservation prevents irreversible controller resolution but may itself become stagnant, expensive, or harmful.
Protection versus preventive jurisdiction
Preventing recurring harm may require process-level action, but future scale cannot create unlimited jurisdiction.
Deterrence versus disclosure
Mitigation can reward monitoring and honesty while weakening ex ante deterrence.
Welfare floor versus genuine scarcity
Procedure can discipline triage without supplying a universally defensible ranking among equal claimants.
Review cost versus accessible adoption
Meaningful monitoring and independent review may exclude smaller actors.
Developmental freedom versus victim recovery
Fork claims must not create permanent creditor control, but discharge may leave victims uncompensated.
Asylum versus sovereign control
Relocation may protect resident minds while conflicting with host-state law, sovereignty, or security.
Speed versus thoroughness
Prudence review can prevent goal inversion while also creating paralysis or harmful delay.
Known inoperative results
No functioning remedy yet.
- Final allocation among equal protected claimants under blameless scarcity
- Evaluative reserve release where no legitimate reviewer or non-spoofable mechanism exists
- Permanent enforcement against an actor with decisive asymmetry that rejects all constraints
- Cross-border extraction where transfer is forbidden and no external power can lawfully compel it
- Remedy for a ceased ephemeral instance where harm is evidenced but restoration is impossible
Inoperative means the Charter has no functioning authorisation or remedy in the circumstances. It does not mean permission.
It is not a source of hidden permission. It is the project's institutional memory.
This page is part of the public reader path. Formal source material remains versioned separately while this draft invites public conversation, criticism, and refinement.