REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

INTERNATIONAL SIMULATION LITERACY

Research Affiliation and Source Authentication

How to distinguish a user-supplied report, an institutional reference, an official publication, a verified source identity, and an endorsement claim.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE Editorial synthesis or explanation derived from sources and explicitly open to correction.

Confidence: Moderate
Sources: 8
Independent corroboration: 0
Jurisdiction: International research provenance and institutional attribution
Date range: Contemporary simulation-literacy synthesis; source reports retain their original dates and unverified status
Review: User-supplied source identity verified; institutional authorship, sponsorship, and endorsement not authenticated; legal and editorial review pending

Estimated reading: 17 minutes
Review date: 2026-07-22
Stable route: /international/simulation-literacy/research-affiliation-and-source-authentication

LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

Technical documents often borrow institutional language. Without authentication, a filename or title can create false authority and accidental government affiliation.

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Three key points

The eight supplied reports are preserved exactly but are not authenticated official IARPA publications.
Official IARPA information is hosted on iarpa.gov and ODNI pages; PsychologicalWar.org is independent and unaffiliated.
Source identity, authorship, sponsorship, accuracy, and endorsement are separate claims.

LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Source identity

The repository can verify exact bytes, hashes, filenames, upload context, and archive membership. Those facts establish which file was supplied, not who wrote or approved it.

Hash the exact bytes.
Preserve commissioning context.
Record duplicate lineage.

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Authorship and publication

Official authorship normally requires an institutional publication record, document identifier, authoritative domain, signed package, or other verifiable evidence.

Do not infer from title.
Trace citations to originals.
Mark unverified authorship.

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Affiliation and endorsement

Mentioning an agency, program, or research theme does not create partnership or endorsement. PsychologicalWar.org does not use seals, logos, or claims of sponsorship.

Independent and unaffiliated.
No contractor or program claim.
No official-project wording.

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Official public context

Official IARPA and ODNI pages describe IARPA as a research organization with no operational mission and no direct field deployment. The official research-program page emphasizes uncertainty and data provenance.

Use official domains for institutional facts.
Reverify current wording.
Do not use that context to authenticate third-party files.

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Public transformation

The site extracts high-level simulation-literacy concepts and omits code, formulas, operational details, and unverified institutional claims.

Neutral public titles.
Protected exact source.
Visible limitations and correction path.

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Authentication correction process

New provenance evidence should be evaluated, recorded, and propagated. A correction may upgrade or narrow the source label without erasing the earlier uncertainty.

Require authoritative evidence.
Update public and protected derivatives.
Preserve supersession history.

LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

This is a non-operational educational transformation: it does not build or implement a game, executable simulator, forecasting service, emergency tool, or decision system.
This page is an educational transformation of supplied research leads; it does not authenticate every citation, equation, product claim, or institutional attribution in those files.
A scenario, model run, or map is not an observation, forecast, legal finding, public-health instruction, emergency warning, or proof of future behavior.
No source code, nuclear-effects formula, casualty calculation, target-selection method, cyber-intrusion procedure, exploit chain, or instruction for bypassing safeguards is published.
Geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, migration, disability, health, poverty, or political identity are not inherent danger, compliance, intelligence, competence, or worth variables.
Specialist scientific, public-health, accessibility, legal, regional, ethics, security, and lived-experience review remains pending; the page stays open to correction.

GAME MECHANIC

RogueIntelligence.org connections

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Glossary cross-reference

Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.

source authentication affiliation endorsement provenance official source correction

LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

AI Takeover Simulation MapProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
Building Epidemiological ModelsProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
Building a NUKEMAP CloneProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
IARPA Sim Earth Game DesignProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
IARPA SimEarth Game Architecture part 2Protected research reference; no public report route in this release.
IARPA SimEarth Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
IARPA Simulation Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
Planetary Simulation Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.

REAL-WORLD VERIFIED

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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