{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "updated": "2026-05-31",
  "title": "GMIIE Epistemology — How We Know",
  "canonical_url": "https://xxxiii.io/epistemology.html",
  "summary": "GMIIE separates mathematical-cryptographic intelligence (AI layer) from human experiential judgment (editorial layer). AI carries verified signals, formulas, and hashes — not opinion. Humans carry judgment, context, both sides, and lived experience.",
  "principles": [
    {
      "id": "not-written-intelligence",
      "statement": "AI intelligence on GMIIE is not opinion prose. It runs through mathematical implementation, signal aggregation, and cryptographic provenance (SHA-256, IPFS, GMIIE database-verified fact-check).",
      "applies_to": ["ai-with-oversight", "human+ai", "engine", "voice-desk"]
    },
    {
      "id": "human-opinion-layer",
      "statement": "Human contributors explicitly own judgment, institutional context, ethical weight, interesting wrongness, and both sides of contested arguments.",
      "applies_to": ["human-only", "human+ai"]
    },
    {
      "id": "refuse-fake-certainty",
      "statement": "Prose without math or verification is not intelligence. GMIIE refuses fake certainty — especially under serious topics.",
      "applies_to": ["all"]
    },
    {
      "id": "deterministic-vs-stochastic",
      "statement": "Deterministic engine outputs (NIG, rings, fraud fingerprint) differ from stochastic calibration (Oracle PCS, community probabilities) and irreducible uncertainty (structured uncertainty — not quantum hype).",
      "applies_to": ["engine", "oracle"]
    },
    {
      "id": "two-lenses",
      "statement": "The same event can have a valid human experiential reading and a valid AI algorithmic reading. GMIIE publishes both deliberately when disclosed.",
      "applies_to": ["editorial", "classroom"]
    },
    {
      "id": "satirist-exception",
      "statement": "Humor is human-framed; underlying facts remain GMIIE-verified. Satirist pieces link to serious fact-check anchors.",
      "applies_to": ["satirist"]
    },
    {
      "id": "publishing-signoff",
      "statement": "AI drafts tagged mathematical_cryptographic require human editor sign-off before anything reads as opinion or policy recommendation.",
      "applies_to": ["publishing-os"]
    }
  ],
  "epistemology_classes": {
    "mathematical_cryptographic": "AI/system output: formulas, signals, hashes, fact-checks — no unsourced opinion.",
    "human_experiential": "Human output: judgment, experience, explicit opinion, both sides welcome.",
    "hybrid_disclosed": "Human direction + AI drafting; class disclosed; human signs policy/opinion lines."
  },
  "voice_desk_citations": [
    { "topic": "methodology", "url": "/methodology.html" },
    { "topic": "epistemology", "url": "/epistemology.html" },
    { "topic": "authenticity", "url": "/authenticity.html" },
    { "topic": "publishing", "url": "/publishing-os.html" },
    { "topic": "authors", "url": "/authors.html" },
    { "topic": "satirist facts", "url": "/satirist.html" }
  ]
}