RUNTIME / SYSTEMS NOTE
Replay Is Not Consequence
Exact runtime histories, evidence completeness and the unresolved boundary between reproducible execution and external truth.
Working thesis
A replay-exact runtime can reproduce its own recorded history without proving that the history captured every consequential event, that authority remained valid or that the claimed world-state change occurred.
Research questions
- 01
Which externally consequential events are absent from the local event log?
- 02
Can the same replay remain valid after authority or world state changes?
- 03
What independent evidence is required to bind a recorded execution to its claimed effect?
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