regime-centered explanation

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Regime-centered explanation is an editorial heading for RB3’s inquiry into how outputs acquire institutional force through workflows, habits and stabilized expectations. It asks what a technical representation is permitted to do and what correction survives routine use. The proposal extends evaluation beyond model performance without making accuracy irrelevant or treating every deployment as the same causal or ethical case.

Explanation

A generated answer can become an expectation, a record can become authority and a recommendation can organize salience. The explanatory object is therefore the coupling through which output allocates credibility, burden and trust. A model’s isolated answer does not yet establish what world its use will help stabilize.

The approach asks what paths of contestation remain and which forms of correction are practically available. It can distinguish a tutoring arrangement preserving learner formation from an administrative arrangement that turns a record into binding truth. This does not prove those cases have identical mechanisms or that technical transparency alone supplies effective redress.

The Horizon example is explicitly a precursor involving software and institutional force, not an AI case. Its role is to clarify how an evidentiary regime can shield error. The proposal also preserves unequal answerability among participants rather than using distributed agency to excuse those with deployment power and control.

Scope and attribution

Editorial regime analysis retains case differences, the non-AI Horizon precursor and unequal practical answerability.

AB — The Actual Book

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Occurrence locators: 162, 163, 167, 168; Appendix: 280.

PB — The Possible Book

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Occurrence locators: 37, 104, 155.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.

Occurrence locators: 162, 173, 174, 178, 191.