layer 3 · theory
principle P14 · observer and observed
Observation as a game
A census of strategic organisms is an inspection game, so each finding holds only for one monitoring regime and one pinned specimen, and assays must remain valid when the organism knows them.
- What a test would record
- pinned specimens, scheduled re-runs
- Tested by
Pred 10 Findings on unpinned model versions stop replicating within months; findings on pinned specimens replicate.