REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE
One-sentence brief
A model cannot be publicly accountable if many users, reviewers, or affected communities cannot access its assumptions and results.
REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE
SIMULATION LITERACY
Accessibility, Performance, and Low-Bandwidth Review
A standard for making complex maps and simulations inspectable without high-end hardware, constant broadband, motion-heavy 3D, color-only encoding, or inaccessible controls.
LEVEL 1
ORIENTATION
Why this matters
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Three key points
- Equivalent text and tables are analytical features, not secondary extras.
- Performance degradation must not silently change the model result.
- Low-bandwidth, keyboard, screen-reader, reduced-motion, and non-VR paths need parity.
LEVEL 2
WORKING BRIEF
Evidence, context, and limits
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Equivalent analytical views
Provide the same core state, uncertainty, source, and correction information through text, tables, static maps, and accessible charts.
- No essential information only in hover or color.
- Logical heading and table structure.
- Downloadable assumptions and data notes.
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Motion and spatial comfort
Animated maps and immersive globes should support pause, reduced motion, camera control, and a non-immersive alternative.
- Respect reduced-motion preferences.
- Avoid forced camera movement.
- Do not require head or body movement for analysis.
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Input and navigation
All controls should work with keyboard, switch, touch, pointer, and assistive technology where applicable.
- Visible focus.
- Large targets.
- No time-limited interaction without extension.
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Low-bandwidth and offline context
Progressive loading, static summaries, compressed assets, and cached public documentation make the model reviewable under unstable connections.
- Core explanation before heavy visuals.
- No infinite polling requirement.
- Clear stale-data indicators.
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Performance and analytical integrity
Rendering optimizations such as level of detail or aggregation should not alter authoritative values or hide uncertainty.
- Separate display simplification from model state.
- Test parity across devices.
- Report dropped or delayed data.
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Review and correction
Automated accessibility checks are necessary but not sufficient. Assistive-technology and lived-experience review should examine real tasks, errors, recovery, and comprehension.
- Name pending review.
- Record barriers and fixes.
- Do not claim certification from automated PASS.
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
- Evidence and uncertainty methodUse provenance, confidence, alternatives, and correction before interpreting a model.
- Synthetic-cohort fairness gatesSee a bounded repository example where a failed baseline remains visible and human approval stays separate.
- International comparison methodApply equal analytical method without making one country or data environment the default.
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Glossary cross-reference
Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.
LEVEL 4
RESEARCH EDITION
Sources, methods, and stable links
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Linked reports
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IARPA SimEarth Game Architecture part 2Protected research reference; no public report route in this release.
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IARPA SimEarth Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
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IARPA Sim Earth Game DesignProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
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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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