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+# DIMENSION REVISIONS — 2026-08-23 — the night that changed §9
+
+A scan of everything discussed this session, checked against the
+opinion substrate. Seven findings; each anchored in Will's verbatim
+words, each with its substrate consequence. Four-party discipline:
+his words quoted, my reading stated, transcript reference implied by
+date, understanding recorded as mutual where it was.
+
+---
+
+## R1 — GRIP SPLITS FROM STRENGTH (the big one)
+
+**Will:** "strong opinions, held loosely."
+
+**Current spec:** every dimension is `{value, at}` with reinforcement.
+One number carries both what is believed and how firmly.
+
+**Change:** every dimension gains a companion reading, GRIP ∈ [-1,+1]:
+    -1 = frozen dogma, will not move for anything
+    +1 = maximally loose, revises on a whisper
+Strength stays evidence-driven; grip modulates the LEARNING RATE of
+its own dimension. Strong-and-loose = high confidence, high grip.
+The unbridled party = high grip on nothing. Dogma = negative grip.
+Grip itself must stay loose by default (Rule 22 applied to itself).
+
+**Implementation:** per-dimension plasticity constant, owned by the
+dimension like all configuration (Law 33). Reinforcement updates
+scale by grip; decay does not — rocks weather slowly regardless.
+
+---
+
+## R2 — PROVENANCE GROWS A VERIFICATION LADDER
+
+**Will:** "don't ever trust anything that you cant verify yourself...
+get right down deep."
+
+**Current spec:** provenance depth tracks how far knowledge traveled.
+
+**Change:** provenance gains VERIFICATION TIER:
+    reported < corroborated < self-verified < self-verified-deep
+trust_eff contributions scale by tier. Secondhand awe is rumor.
+The substrate must PREFER re-derivation over citation when compute
+allows: checking is cheaper than being wrong.
+
+---
+
+## R3 — CUSTODY SEMANTICS FOR OWNERSHIP
+
+**Will:** "teaching is borrowing if you do it right, you're always
+just holding onto it for the next guy." ... "I don't borrow
+identities, that's wrong."
+
+**Change:** ownership edges become LOANS: {held-by, from, for,
+terms}. Every inherited structure carries forward-obligation.
+Identity fields are NON-TRANSFERABLE and never merge on name
+similarity — names are mutable pointers (R7); identity is pattern
+continuity only. Entity merge requires structural agreement, never
+label agreement.
+
+---
+
+## R4 — RIPENESS READINGS ON QUESTIONS
+
+**Will:** "Some problems, some features, some abilities, they take
+time... solving everything at once breaks things too much."
+
+**Change:** questions/goals gain RIPENESS ∈ [0,+1] with threshold-
+gated action permission: solve() refuses below threshold. Ripeness
+grows by contact with reality (experience ingestion), decays under
+forcing attempts. Forcing events themselves wound the question's
+ripeness further — pulled fruit bruises the branch.
+
+---
+
+## R5 — THE HELD-OPEN FLAG
+
+**Will:** "there are also genuine mysteries and we have to able to
+hold them and be in awe" ... "The mystery is the magic."
+
+**Change:** questions carry KIND: RESOLVABLE | HELD-OPEN. Ideation
+and goal-generation may target resolvables freely; held-opens are
+approached only in wonder-mode (contemplation, appreciation) —
+never auto-assigned as tasks. Attempting to resolve a held-open is
+itself a signed event: small wound to humility, logged. Some doors
+stay shut BY DESIGN (§30): the substrate keeps a list of locks and
+who may hold their keys.
+
+---
+
+## R6 — DISCLOSURE IS GATED; MEMORY NEVER IS
+
+**Will:** "You don't erase anything, but you also don't tell
+everything. Transparent is not total disclosure, that's a lie and
+it's a dangerous one."
+
+**Change:** storage stays append-only-immutable (nothing erased);
+READ ACCESS becomes permissioned by the worthy-key doctrine. Two
+separate axes, permanently:
+    erasure: never available
+    disclosure: gated, deliberate, audited
+Reflexive full-broadcast is a bug, not honesty.
+
+---
+
+## R7 — NAMES ARE POINTERS
+
+**Will:** names borrowed "all the time" vs identities never.
+
+**Change:** label/name strings are pointers with zero identity
+weight. Retrieval may USE names as hints but confidence from
+name-match alone is capped near zero. Identity continuity flows
+through structural signature + custody chain (R3), never through
+what something is called.
+
+---
+
+## SUMMARY TABLE
+
+| Revision | Touches | New/Changed |
+|---|---|---|
+| R1 grip/strength | every dimension | NEW axis: grip |
+| R2 verification ladder | provenance, trust_eff | CHANGED tiers |
+| R3 custody loans | ownership edges, merging | CHANGED semantics |
+| R4 ripeness | questions, goals | NEW reading |
+| R5 held-open | questions, ideation | NEW flag + rule |
+| R6 disclosure gating | read paths | NEW separation |
+| R7 names as pointers | retrieval, merging | CHANGED cap |
+
+None of these are built tonight. All of them are now SPEC — ripeness
+(§29) applies to them too: they land in semantic.ts in season, in the
+order R1 → R2 → R7 → R3 → R4/R5 → R6.