The Math of Observer Attention

Quick Answer

VC = W × Vcom is a typed relation, not a universal worth score. In the founder implementation, W is a six-component HouseOfBros Wellbeing state and Vcom means Value for the Commons. The exact pre-event score values a Performance event before that event can move Performance.

The public value relation

VC = W × Vcom

VC = W × Vcom is the public value relation. com abbreviates Commons, not Community. A community or SAO may issue, validate, and govern a policy; the Commons is the wider value horizon. The equation does not mean that every value output is money. The output is typed by context.

This is a research scaffold. It is not a validated universal formula and it is never a measure of intrinsic human worth.

Wellbeing value

VC_wb = W × Vcom_wb

This describes Non-Performance or wellbeing value. Vcom_wb is a contextual wellbeing-value coefficient. It is not a market price, not a wage, and not an automatic currency claim. It may be derived from self-observation, the participant’s ~WellbeingIdentity baseline, evidence quality, prior calibration, and optional coach, cohort, or commons attestation. Its output may appear as a W update, identity-state update, self-recognition, cohort recognition, or commons-recognized wellbeing evidence.

Commons-realized value

VC_perf = W × Vcom_perf

This describes Performance or commons-realized value. Vcom_perf is a commons-defined contribution coefficient. It may become money, equity-like value, contribution credit, reputation value, or formal community accounting when a Performance slice is validated through ~SAOcommons.

Same equation. Different value type. Different validation path.

Non-Performance creates wellbeing value. Performance can create commons-realized value. The distinction is not value versus no value. The distinction is wellbeing-state value versus externally validated contribution value.

Time defines the boundary of the observation through ~ValueCaptureProtocol / ~~TimeSlice / ~~~StartTime, ~~~EndTime, and ~~~Duration. Applied calculations may use duration, but they remain subordinate to the public relation and require explicit units, calibration, uncertainty, and governance.

Two examples

A sleep recovery slice may produce VC_wb. The value output is not money. It may appear as W improvement, recovery evidence, and an identity-state update.

A publishing sprint for The Internet of Value may produce VC_perf if the commons validates it as contribution. The value output may become contribution credit, reputation, money, equity-like value, or formal community accounting depending on governance.

HouseOfBros Founder Policy v0.1

For Moses's current founder implementation, Wellbeing has exactly six source components:

W = 0.20 Physiology

  + 0.10 Emotion

  + 0.10 Feeling

  + 0.20 Thought

  + 0.10 Habit

  + 0.30 Performance

Performance remains inside Wellbeing. It is the node through which time enters SAOcommons through Learning, Earning, or OrgBuilding. Physical, Mental, and Financial Health are explanatory rollups only; they do not replace the six components or make Performance synonymous with income.

The bootstrap baseline begins with six founder-reviewed 1.0–10.0 ratings, converted to 100–1000. It never decomposes the historical scalar 843 into invented component values. A later calibration baseline creates a new prospective epoch without rewriting history.

A score of 100 is the lower bound of the HouseOfBros measurement scale. It is not a statement about a person's human worth.

How a confirmed observation moves one component

The affected component's pre-event value selects the complete nine-band matrix rate and supplies the movement base:

maximum_move = N_before × band_rate(N_before) × adjustment_factor(N_before)

delta_N = direction × maximum_move × intensity

N_after = clamp(N_before + delta_N, 100, 1000)

Positive and negative directions use +1 and −1. Low, medium, and high intensity use 1/3, 2/3, and 1. Founder v0.1 uses no confidence multiplier and no daily cap. Inferred and uncertain inner-state observations can show a private preview, but only a Moses-confirmed observation moves authoritative state.

Performance: value first, transition second

Vcom_event = rate × validated_duration

VCperformance_event = (W_before / 1000) × Vcom_event

The exact sequence matters: validate the task, route, duration, evidence, and rate; resolve exact W_before; calculate Vcom_event; calculate VCperformance_event; then apply the separately selected low, medium, or high Performance impact. The event cannot use its own result to increase its multiplier.

Rate, Vcom, currency, wealth, and raw skill level do not directly choose Performance movement. GFE retains independent review. IoV Systems Modeling and HouseOfBros allow explicitly labelled founder self-review during the founder pilot.

Non-Performance: state is not a pile of points

A confirmed Physiology, Emotion, Feeling, Thought, or Habit event moves that component and recomputes W_after. The event stores VCnonperformance_event = W_after and delta_W. Repeated W_after snapshots are not added together. Wellbeing points are never added to USD, contribution credits, or any other unit.

One activity, one movement

An activity_occurrence_id binds pauses and time-slice fragments into one real-world occurrence. Duration can aggregate across non-overlapping slices, but component movement happens once. A source_attestation_id and performance_transition_key similarly ensure one task or evidence bundle produces at most one logical Performance transition in a calculation branch. Replay is deterministic and idempotent.

Legacy and founder truth coexist without rewriting history

Legacy Pilot W, its normalized score, and all prior calculations remain preserved under their original method. HouseOfBros WellbeingScore · Founder Policy v0.1 begins from a reviewed six-component baseline epoch and becomes authoritative for Moses prospectively. The policy is issuer-specific, owner-controlled, under longitudinal calibration, and is not a universal ranking of people.

Implementation lens

Every founder calculation stores the six-component pre-state and post-state, exact W_before, W_after, policy ID, policy version, policy content hash, calculation version, baseline epoch, occurrence or attestation identity, typed Vcom unit, validation mode, replay run, and settlement status.

References and grounding

• The Internet of Value canonical protocol registry
• Math of Value public explainer