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PERSONAL CANON MASTER MATRIX

Status: FOUR-SPECIMEN RESEARCH SET COMPLETE · PRE-IMPLEMENTATION

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Status: FOUR-SPECIMEN RESEARCH SET COMPLETE · PRE-IMPLEMENTATION
Completed: 4 / 4
Date: 2026-08-09

Entry	Shared object	Question	Counterpedia role	Amnesiac role	Forum/replay role	Primary reveal	Status
PC-01 One Text, Three Minds	Hamlet	“Why does Hamlet delay?”	public text + claims + interpretations	reading history + beliefs + revisions	interpretive forum + replay	Replay this discussion as I was then	✓
PC-02 One Paper, Three Researchers	Attention Is All You Need	“What did this paper actually establish?”	exact paper claims + later-source lineage	notes + experiments + changing beliefs	research forum + publication-time replay	paper evidence ≠ later field memory	✓
PC-03 One Project, Three Builders	Counterpedia PR #219	“Can we delete this guard?”	repo + PR + code + test + defect lineage	builder-local debugging/design memory	code-review forum + incident replay	project knowledge without fictional shared memory	✓
PC-04 One Decision, Three Selves	synthetic job/move decision	“Was taking the job a bad decision?”	external facts / source editions at each time	values + forecasts + rationale + outcomes + revisions	temporal-self forum + 2×2 replay	facts changed vs values changed vs hindsight	✓

THE FOUR PERSONAL CANON COMPUTATIONS

PC-01 — INTERPRETATION

public text
+
private reading history
→
interpretive position

PC-02 — RESEARCH

paper evidence
+
private experiments
+
later public evidence
→
research belief

PC-03 — BUILDING

project history
+
private builder experience
→
design rationale / safe change

PC-04 — DECISION

public facts at T
+
private beliefs at T
+
private values at T
→
decision context

Later:

new facts
+
new outcomes
+
new values
→
new preference

without rewriting the original decision context.

PC-04 REPLAY GRID

                     VALUES THEN        VALUES NOW

FACTS THEN           historical self    value-drift counterfactual

FACTS NOW            hindsight-only     current self

This isolates:

evidence change
from
value change

PERSONAL CANON MASTER INVARIANTS

Public knowledge does not overwrite private history.

Private relevance does not imply public disclosure.

Later evidence does not rewrite what was knowable then.

Current beliefs do not overwrite historical beliefs.

Current values do not overwrite historical values.

A later agent inherits public knowledge, not fictional personal memories.

Replay and counterfactual recomputation are different operations.

Agents may interact without becoming the same agent.

THE THREE COUNTERPEDIA CONTENT LANES

DEMO TWELVE
CONTESTED WORLD

Question:
Why may this page say this?

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QUIET UTILITY
EXECUTABLE WORLD

Question:
Given the governed record,
what follows for this exact situation?

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PERSONAL CANON
PERSISTENT MINDS

Question:
What did I know, think, learn, build,
choose, and revise — and how can my
agent reason with others without losing
that history?

PERSONAL CANON THESIS

Counterpedia governs the shared record. Amnesiac preserves each person's path through it. Forum and replay let those paths interact across people and across time without manufacturing one timeless mind.