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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

SIMULATION LITERACY

Deterministic Core, Generative Narrative

A governance pattern in which validated state, rules, and evidence remain authoritative while generative systems provide clearly labeled explanation or narrative proposals.

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LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

Language models can make a simulation legible, but persuasive text must not silently become a measurement, event, diagnosis, accusation, or binding state change.

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Three key points

  1. Authoritative state is deterministic, versioned, and replayable.
  2. Generative output is labeled, constrained, validated, and correctable.
  3. Failure degrades to authored or cached behavior without changing the underlying result.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Authoritative state

Measurements, scenario inputs, model parameters, events, permissions, and outputs should live in a validated state system with stable identifiers and rules.

  • Schema validation.
  • Versioned transitions.
  • No natural-language side effects.
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Generative proposal

A language model may propose a summary, explanation, dialogue, or candidate event description. The proposal remains untrusted until checked against the authoritative state and public boundaries.

  • Structured output.
  • Allowed-action list.
  • Provenance and model identity.
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Validation layer

Validation should reject invented entities, impossible chronology, unsupported claims, prohibited content, and state changes outside the model contract.

  • Fail closed for binding actions.
  • Record rejection reason.
  • Do not retry indefinitely.
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Graceful fallback

When the model is unavailable, slow, unsafe, or inconsistent, the system should use authored text, cached summaries, or deterministic templates.

  • No loss of core function.
  • No hidden change in analytical result.
  • Accessible fallback formats.
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Correction propagation

If authoritative state changes, generated summaries and explanations derived from it must be invalidated or corrected.

  • Track dependencies.
  • Show issue time and version.
  • Preserve superseded narrative as non-current.
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Human accountability

A model can propose language but cannot own a consequential decision. Named human or institutional roles remain responsible for publication, policy, and correction.

  • No automated approval.
  • No generated diagnosis or guilt.
  • Document human review state.
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.
LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

  • 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.
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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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