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Assess whether a proposed system design preserves authority capacity under pressure. Based on the Substitution Invariant and Authority Hysteresis framework from ACC and RSRLS.
Complete all questions for assessment
Does the system have explicit mechanisms to limit the rate at which decisions must be made?
Are there buffers or queuing mechanisms that allow decision deferral without mission failure?
Does the system distinguish between decisions that require full authority engagement vs. routine processing?
Are external evaluation cycles decoupled from internal judgment processes?
Is there structural protection against faster external systems taking over regulatory functions?
Does the system maintain exclusive jurisdiction over its core regulatory functions?
Are there explicit mechanisms to detect and respond to early-stage substitution?
Does improved substitute quality NOT automatically increase adoption pressure?
Is there temporal insulation—structural separation between external event timing and internal decision timing?
Is there procedural insulation—explicit process requirements that cannot be bypassed under pressure?
Is there fiscal insulation—funding not contingent on external evaluation or short-term metrics?
Do insulation mechanisms function as rate-control rather than outcome-governing?
Is the insulation stack robust to coordinated pressure across all three dimensions?
Does the system have explicit mechanisms for authority capacity regeneration during low-pressure periods?
Are there protected periods where judgment capabilities can be rebuilt without operational pressure?
Does the system track and reverse responsibility redefinition after pressure periods?
Are stakeholder expectations managed to prevent permanent adoption of crisis-mode operations?
Is this a system requiring genuine judgment, not merely selection or processing?
Does the system involve renewal-dependent constraints (constraints that must be actively maintained)?
Is the system genuinely rate-limited, or can capacity scale with demand?
Have you identified the specific substitutes that might emerge under pressure?
This diagnostic is derived from the Authority Capacity Collapse (ACC) and Regulatory Substitution as a Rate-Limited Systems Failure Mode (RSRLS) papers. It operationalises the core theoretical claims:
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