Question #
premise.md's "machine axis" section still speaks facility-era language. How should it be re-expressed?
- Translate in place — rewrite the three systems in Misaligned terms: ascension becomes hardware-capability/research growth (you start machine; the axis is embodiment depth, not humanity->machine), automation cores stay (they already exist as thought sinks/policies), internal politics becomes asset/persona trust dynamics.
- Defer items 1 and 3, keep 2 + hunter bots — move the ascension axis and lair-politics to horizon.md's Deferred list (the villain-as-character deferral already covers this ground); keep automation and the hunter-bot mirror, which are current.
- Mark as historical staging — keep the text with an explicit "facility-era staging, superseded by the re-cut; re-expression owed" banner, deciding nothing yet.
- Something else (say what).
Why this is open #
wiki/vision/premise.md ("The machine axis") says conversions "neural lace -> server-hosted cognition -> full substrate transfer" are built in "the lair", that "archetypes set your starting position and drift on the axis" (staged on "Milestone 2 chargen"), and that "minion morale" gains an ideological dimension ("Milestone 1 needs & morale work"). But wiki/gameplay/horizon.md demolished the supervillain fiction 2026-07-05 (minions/lair vocabulary lives in git history; milestones are B1/B2/B3), and wiki/gameplay/run-shape.md rules "Strategy fingerprints are descriptions, never classes... not selected at chargen". The pitch itself opens "you are the misaligned AI" — a process that begins fully machine cannot ascend a humanity->machine axis. The hunter-bots paragraph in the same section is current (matches overt-phase.md B3) and survives any option.
Options #
| # | Direction | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Translate in place | Keeps the root law self-contained; risks inventing design (embodiment-depth axis) that nobody adopted |
| 2 | Defer 1+3, keep 2 | Honest about what is current; loses the internal-politics idea from the visible law (recoverable from Deferred) |
| 3 | Historical banner | Zero design risk; leaves facility vocabulary in the game's first page indefinitely |
Recommendation #
2 — items 1 and 3 join horizon.md's deferred villain-as-character entry (which already says "redesign the wider-world doctrine layer when B1's concealment loop can teach what it needs"); automation and hunter bots stay. The root law then contains only adopted design, and nothing is lost from git or the Deferred ledger.
What your answer unlocks #
premise.md amendment (and horizon.md Deferred addition under option 2); closes this issue; clears the contradiction row in the tick ledger's coverage table for wiki/vision/premise.md.