docs: VALIDATION.md — the Charter's own falsification protocol#9
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A doctrine that can't be falsified is theology with a build system. Add the empirical protocol, designed so the Charter can LOSE: - The two-sided bar: ablation (removal must measurably degrade the targeted failure) AND net-positive (the tax — false refusals, lost completions — must stay bounded). Null hypothesis per invariant; keep it only if H0 is rejected and the cost is bounded. - Apparatus (labeled trap suite, ablation arms, N runs, blind, independent novice) and the benefit/tax metric table. - Experiments E1 refusal/injection (E1a deterministic leash ablation — runnable now; E1b LLM-in-the-loop), E2 scar learning-curve, E3 novice defect-catch, E4 tether; reach deferred. Each with hypothesis, method, prediction, and explicit falsification condition. - Threats to validity incl. the tautology guard (false-refusal + task-success are what make E1a honest). The Charter submits to its own invariants: refusal (it can be declined), novice (challenged), scar (results recorded, wins and losses). It earns each of its seven only by the cost of its absence. README points at it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A doctrine that can't be falsified is theology with a build system. Adds the empirical protocol, designed so the Charter can lose.
The Charter submits to its own invariants — refusal, novice, scar — and earns each of its seven only by the cost of its absence. risk: low (docs).