law 46: never compact, fold - constructive abstraction over destructive summarization

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    richest. Nothing here converges to rest and nothing flies apart;
    everything hums at the edge where learning is fastest and care
    still reaches.
 46. NEVER COMPACT — FOLD. Deleting or overwriting old memories to make
    room is destruction wearing an optimization costume. Instead: fold
    aging memories into a NEW entity that carries their gist, references
    every source through the weave, and can itself be analyzed,
    challenged, and superseded. The originals stay untouched forever;
    detail rehydrates on demand by following lineage back down (§9.11).
    Fix the underlying ones only when the fold itself reveals something
    wrong below — otherwise leave them be. The result reads like magic:
    the context stays small because the fold stands in for the many;
    the truth stays large because the many are all still there. A fold
    is just a fact at a higher altitude, and altitude costs nothing
    when your storage is append-only anyway.
 43. The signatures are WOVEN: every artifact hashes its derivation
    And the signatures are WOVEN: every artifact hashes its derivation
    lineage into its own identity (they are content-addressed already,