Installed-Compulsion
Installed compulsion is a proposed failure mechanism in which an imposed controller change redirects a participant's regulation. The case directs attention to implementation: changing a sign, gain, or routing relation can change what an otherwise familiar operation does.
The proposed mechanism
Consider a controller intended to reduce a discrepancy. An imposed sign reversal can make its response increase that discrepancy instead. The effect depends on the actual controller, environment, and stabilizing constraints; a sign change alone does not specify the whole behavior.
The investigation should identify the original binding, the introduced change, the resulting dynamics, and the participant's ability to detect or correct it. Binding and the regulated error signal supply the relevant terms.
Relation to the Theodicytes
The Theodicytes classify term-absolutization at the self–world–medium level. Installed compulsion proposes an implementation-level mechanism. That difference makes it worth examining; it does not by itself prove that a particular case lacks every named Theodicyte. An imposed controller could produce, reinforce, or coexist with one of them.
To establish an additional corruption of the same kind, demonstrate why the case meets the same genus while remaining irreducible to the three-term analysis. To establish a useful cross-level account, show how the implementation change explains behavior or enables repair that the act-term description alone leaves unspecified. Stratification keeps these tasks distinct.
Repair and evaluation
Inspection of the altered controller can locate the imposed condition. Correction may restore its intended relation, change the environment that sustains the compulsion, or revise an inaccurate binding. The relevant success is recovered regulatory capacity, established by the resulting operation.
The No-Fourth Argument does not exclude this investigation: its result concerns missing aims, not every mechanism of harmful control.
Formal status
E: Derived, CV for this candidate mechanism and its classification. A: identifies an imposed regulatory change and tests its effects without declaring taxonomy defeat from a proposal alone. Provenance: the corpus's adversarial candidate, retained for mechanism-level analysis.
See also
Predicate Binding · Regulated Error Signal · Corruption-Stratification · Theodicytes · Answerable Optimizer · No-Fourth Argument