Issue 14 · Crosswalk
Am I Building?
How the Structure claims and Reference links line up, claim by claim.
Reference Dependency Crosswalk
This connects claims to outside pressure, not to certainty.
For every Structure claim, this table shows whether Reference supplies outside-world support or marks the dependency unresolved. Unresolved / bounded is an honest label for a claim that rests on testimony or structure rather than public evidence.
| Structure claim | Outside support | Reference | What it does and does not cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| SL-014-01 Feeling of progress is a poor guide; the felt sense can diverge from the measured one. | Satisfied, with limits | RL-014-01, RL-014-02 | Supports the felt-vs-measured split, not the reader's odds or all AI building. |
| SL-014-02 The three payoffs differ by visibility and timing, not moral worth. | Partly satisfied | RL-014-03 | External-adoption rarity is supported only as AI-agnostic base-rate context; worth judgments stay outside Reference. |
| SL-014-03 The self-checks are tells and nudges, not verdicts. | Unresolved / bounded | RL-014-05, RL-014-06 | The practical tells are structurally bounded; no public evidence validates them as predictors. |
| SL-014-04 Rarity and the feeling/fact gap are separate explanations. | Partly satisfied | RL-014-03, RL-014-04 | Base-rate rarity and quality bottlenecks constrain the claim; AI distinctiveness stays a hypothesis. |
| SL-014-05 Absorption is needed for real building and is exactly what hollow building feels like. | Partly satisfied | RL-014-04 | Reference supports bottleneck persistence, not the full absorption mechanism; the novelty-fades falsifier stays open. |
| SL-014-06 The relational question is more readable from inside than the meaning question. | Bounded, not publicly evidenced | RL-014-06 | Structurally important, but evidenced only by general logic and private substrate. |
| SL-014-07 People close to you can report your absence, not the worth of the work. | Bounded, not publicly evidenced | RL-014-06 | Public-safe only as a diagnostic frame; the private witness material stays private. |
| SL-014-08 "Lifetime value uncertainty" can act as a brake: one person's testimony. | Unresolved / bounded | RL-014-05, RL-014-06 | First-person testimony; whether it is enough is external and shows over time. |
| SL-014-09 The central question is about meaning, not bare existence. | Satisfied: live demonstration | RL-014-07 | Outside pressure, a reader's objection, changed the published wording after publication. |