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One-sentence brief
Metrics are useful when they expose a concrete failure pattern and dangerous when they hide context, language differences, sample size, or false-positive risk behind a single score.
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AI-DRIVEN WORLD SAFETY
Metrics, Threshold Profiles, and Context-Sensitive Review
How to use vocabulary, entropy, opening, duplication, cluster, and behavior metrics without turning one threshold into a universal quality oracle.
LEVEL 1
ORIENTATION
Why this matters
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Three key points
- Use multiple interpretable metrics.
- Thresholds scale with population size and context.
- No metric automatically grants activation.
LEVEL 2
WORKING BRIEF
Evidence, context, and limits
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Length-aware vocabulary measures
Use length-normalized measures for lexical diversity rather than raw type-token ratios that mechanically decline with longer text. Compare like with like across language, field, and sample length.
- A rich vocabulary can still be incoherent.
- A constrained role can legitimately use narrow jargon.
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Sentence openings and rhythm
Track dominant first words, first phrases, full-name introductions, clause patterns, sentence length, and part-of-speech rhythms across biography and dialogue.
- Report distributions, not only maxima.
- Short texts need wider uncertainty.
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Trait and behavior combinations
Measure the concentration of occupation–routine, relationship, goal, ordinary-concern, and behavioral-response combinations after semantic grouping.
- Grouping choices change entropy.
- Explain the clustering ontology.
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Scale thresholds by population and role
A 100-character cast and a 10,000-character population need different collision expectations. Same-role cohorts may share more domain vocabulary but not identical life history or behavioral response.
- Profiles are versioned and testable.
- Do not copy source thresholds into production untested.
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Publish uncertainty and coverage
Every metric should state language coverage, fields analyzed, missing data, model version, candidate recall, confidence interval, and known false-positive risks.
- Fingerprint-only analysis cannot establish grammar.
- Partial records require qualified recommendations.
LEVEL 3
COMPLETE DOSSIER
Limitations, game links, and review context
DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
Known limitations and gaps
- The six supplied reports are preserved research leads. Their filenames, organizations, citations, examples, thresholds, and technical detail do not authenticate authorship, sponsorship, product status, or current factual accuracy.
- The public section is design literacy, not a production specification. It does not expose provider credentials, prompts, live endpoints, activation tokens, autonomous tool use, or implementation code for a running agent system.
- Population-quality measures must detect mechanical repetition and coherence failures without treating demographic rarity, disability, nationality, language, religion, gender, migration, or another protected characteristic as a defect or quality score.
- Thresholds, similarity methods, sampling plans, language rules, and runtime budgets require representative testing, privacy review, accessibility review, cultural and linguistic review, security review, and accountable human approval before any production use.
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Related public learning
- Human and NPC psychologyKeep personhood, role, state, relationships, pressure, and recovery separate.
- Deterministic core and generative narrativeKeep validated state authoritative while generation remains bounded and correctable.
- Virtual-world governanceConnect AI design to consent, justice, accessibility, and repair.
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Glossary cross-reference
Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.
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Decision matrix
| Metric family | Useful for | Required caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Lexical diversity | Detecting narrow or repetitive vocabulary | Language, length, role, and genre affect baseline |
| Opening concentration | Finding formulaic greetings and biography starts | Simple sentences naturally converge |
| Cluster share | Finding dominant template families | Embedding and clustering choices shape families |
| Combination entropy | Finding tiny pools of traits or mechanics | Lore constraints can lower expected entropy |
| Review defect rate | Estimating sampled quality | Sample design and confidence interval must be shown |
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Publication audit checklist
Identity and agency
Does the design preserve the exact fictional identity, ordinary life, independent goals, and ability to refuse rather than reducing the character to a role or prompt?
Pass condition: Identity fields are stable, state is separate, protected traits are not quality scores, and silent substitution is impossible.
Evidence and review
Can every transition, validation result, accepted fingerprint, exception, and human decision be traced to a versioned record?
Pass condition: Automated checks, human review, activation authority, and production approval remain separate and explicit.
Runtime boundary
Can untrusted provider output, administrative evidence, stale revisions, or private data enter live context or binding state?
Pass condition: Only allowlisted, current, reviewed projections and bounded scene or memory packets can be used; failures degrade safely.
Correction and retirement
Can a changed source, identity revision, harmful behavior, or failed review invalidate downstream use without destroying audit history?
Pass condition: Supersession, pause, rollback, correction, and permanent retirement are defined and testable.
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RESEARCH EDITION
Sources, methods, and stable links
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Linked reports
- Method: Transparent, Revisable, and Explicitly LimitedComplete public report · 533 words
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Human and NPC Psychology: Person, Role, State, and AgencyProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
- Intelligence Ethics: Necessity, Proportionality, and Human ConsequenceComplete public report · 513 words
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Method and corrections
This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.
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