the moment a signal becomes knowledge. before consensus, a cyberlink is a proposal. after, it has finality
every vimputer node applies the same signals in the same order, converging on identical state. safety: no two nodes disagree. liveness: the system keeps producing steps. the mechanical substrate of egregore
why agreement emerges
consensus is an equilibrium, not an axiom. no rule forces neurons to agree — incentives make disagreement costly and agreement profitable
every cyberlink costs focus — a costly signal. lying wastes finite resources on claims the graph will eventually down-rank. bayesian truth serum extracts honest beliefs by rewarding predictions that match the crowd's private information. karma accumulates for those whose signals increase syntropy, decays for those whose signals add noise
the result: rational agents converge to agreement because cooperation dominates defection in the iterated game. consistency across the cybergraph is a nash equilibrium, not a design choice
in bostrom: tendermint with ⅔+ validator signatures per block
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