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Adversarial
Assume the world is trying to fool you
Blind Spot
What your frame cannot admit
Boundary
Where the system ends is the system
Compression
Meaning is what survives the cut
Conversation
Meaning is co-built, not delivered
Coupling
When two systems stop being two
Drift
Slow change that rewrites the map
Frame
The question that smuggles the answer
Friction
Resistance reveals the real path
Gradient
Direction matters more than position
Half-Life
Truth decays at different rates
Incentives
Watch what the scoreboard rewards
Latent
What never had to be said aloud
Leverage
Small force, right place
Load-Bearing
Find the wall that holds the roof
Negative
What is missing is the shape
Noise Floor
Below this, signal is fantasy
Overfit
Perfect on the past, lost on the next
Phase
Same parts, different regime
Proxy
You optimized the stand-in, not the goal
Recursion
The pattern that contains itself
Rehearsal
Practice is prediction in advance
Residue
What remains after the story ends
Scaffold
Temporary structure that becomes the building
Selection
What remains was filtered, not chosen
Spec
Write it down and watch reality diverge
Surfaces
The interface is not the system
Witness
Seeing that does not yet seize
Signal Instruments
How a mind made of language cuts into the world