One message that carries fact, stability, policy, and proof — by design
What this section establishes
Every serious SSMDE record MUST carry the same core surface so humans and machines never have to guess intent:
- Value — what actually happened (the untouched classical magnitude).
Collapse parity guarantee:
phi((m,a)) = m
- Alignment Dial (align) — how stable / how close to danger right now, always bounded in
(-1,+1)and safe to pool/compare. - Manifest — which rulebook defined “safe” at that moment (identified by
manifest_id). - Stamp — when this declaration existed and in what order, as a one-line, tamper-evident chain.
Strong recommendation: include band (e.g., "A++", "A0", "CRITICAL") wherever humans must act — band turns math into duty-of-care with clear time windows.
Why each pillar exists
- Value answers “What actually happened?”
SSMDE never rescales, normalizes, or prettifies the number you already trust. - Alignment Dial answers “How close are we to trouble right now?”
Constructed via a canonical, order-invariant pipeline:
a_c := clamp(a_raw, -1+eps_a, +1-eps_a)
u := atanh(a_c)
U += w * u
W += w
a_out := tanh( U / max(W, eps_w) )
Properties:
-1 < a_out < +1
a_out(batch) == a_out(stream) == a_out(merged shards)
- Manifest answers “According to which rulebook did you decide that?”
Change policy → issue a newmanifest_id(no silent goalpost shifts). - Stamp answers “Can you prove you really said this, at that exact moment, in that order?”
Illustrative shape:
SSMCLOCK1|<utc>|theta=<deg>|sha256=<hex>|prev=<hash-or-NONE>
What “non-optional” means in SSMDE
The four pillars are not style choices — they are the interface of trust.
Any record claiming to be SSMDE-compliant should, at minimum, emit:
value, align, manifest_id
and, for accountability/safety contexts, also emit:
stamp
band is strongly recommended wherever human action is required.
How we’ll proceed
We’ll go one by one:
- 1.1 Value (the raw magnitude) — why collapse parity matters everywhere.
- 1.2 Alignment Dial — the clamp → atanh → fuse → tanh pipeline and its guarantees.
- 1.3 Manifest — freezing baselines, cutpoints, and escalation promises.
- 1.4 Stamp — turning telemetry into replayable evidence.
- 1.5 Putting it together — the complete declaration.
- 1.6 Minimal Record Shape — copy-ready schema.
- 1.7 Field-by-field walkthrough — practical details and rules.
- 1.8 Concrete examples — operations, finance, AI, process safety.
- 1.9 Why this isn’t “just another blob.”
Navigation
Previous: SSMDE — Quick Glossary (0F)
Next: SSMDE — Value (the raw magnitude) (1.1)
Directory of Pages
SSMDE – Table of Contents
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