Worked example · 04

When an earlier interpretation changes

Why must later derived values be calculated again?

Evening · reflection and correction

Evening reflection corrects the decision attached to an earlier synthetic occurrence. A later occurrence stays unchanged, but it now begins from a different prior state.

This is a synthetic variation on the paper’s redacted public worked day. It teaches a branch of the model; it is not a private record, observed personal event or empirical finding.

World 03 / 03

Record Integrity Lab

Thought · correction · chronological replay

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Short answer

Because later events read the state produced by earlier eligible events.

01 · Moment

Observed time slice

A bounded event with context and provenance.

02 · Economic question

No economic route

No typed VC output is constituted here.

03 · Human question

+0.007 WellbeingScore movement

Wbefore 700.021 → Wafter 700.028

One event can produce two independently governed answers. Orange marks an active result; graphite preserves an inactive or unavailable possibility without turning it into zero.

Show the calculation

Four questions, in order.

  1. 01

    Start with the prior state

    The event reads Wbefore = 700.021.

  2. 02

    Ask the economic question

    No typed Vcom is constituted for this case.

  3. 03

    Ask the human-state question

    The reviewed input produces deltaW = 0.007, so Wafter = 700.028.

  4. 04

    Keep the units honest

    No economic VC output is produced. A wellbeing movement is not converted into money or credits.

What this means

Replay preserves the later decision input while recomputing its Wbefore, movement and Wafter from the corrected chronology.

What it does not mean

Replay does not rewrite later observations or convert a correction into new evidence.

Scenario structure

Follow the integrity rule.

  1. 01

    The first active decision changes

  2. 02

    The second observation does not

  3. 03

    Later derived values are recomputed

Technical layerAudit the calculationInspect statuses, intermediate values, provenance, uncertainty and raw scenario structure.
Source settlement
final
Impact review
applied
Replay eligibility
eligible
Valuation
not applicable nonperformance
Projection
canonical
Wbefore
700.021
Component delta
0.035
deltaW
0.007
Wafter
700.028
Vcom_event
null
VCperformance_event
null

Required case note

Impact justification

Assumed synthetic evidence
Two ordered synthetic occurrences follow a declared Genesis boundary. The first active decision is corrected from no_transition to positive medium; the second decision input is unchanged.
Reviewed decision input
Performance positive · medium, followed by Thought positive · low
Calculation demonstrated
The calculator applies the pinned HouseOfBros Founder Policy v0.1 transition matrix to the declared component state. It does not infer direction or intensity from the evidence narrative.
Decision rationale
Replay recomputes the later component delta, Wbefore and Wafter from the corrected chronological state without changing the later decision input.
Alternative interpretations
  • A policy migration would be a different operation from correction replay.
Uncertainty
This synthetic case has not been calibrated against observed longitudinal evidence or independent reviewer agreement.
Evidence-to-intensity rubric
unvalidated. Direction and intensity are reviewed inputs; the calculator does not infer them from prose.
Validation research required
Cross-implementation replay conformance tests and append-only correction audits.

Raw scenario structure

Chronological replay

Records are applied in effective-time order. The corrected first decision changes the prior state read by the unchanged second decision.

{
  "id": "genesis-synthetic-001",
  "effective_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "W": 700
}
[
  {
    "occurrence_id": "occ-001",
    "effective_at": "2026-01-02T09:00:00Z",
    "active_decision": {
      "component": "Performance",
      "direction": "positive",
      "intensity": "medium",
      "status": "applied"
    },
    "old_output": {
      "calculated_Wbefore": 700,
      "calculated_component_delta": 0,
      "calculated_Wafter": 700
    },
    "replayed_output": {
      "calculated_Wbefore": 700,
      "component_before": 700,
      "band": "(600,700]",
      "band_rate": 0.03,
      "adjustment_factor": 0.005,
      "direction": "positive",
      "intensity": "medium",
      "intensity_multiplier": 0.6666666666666666,
      "maximum_move": 0.105,
      "calculated_component_delta": 0.07,
      "component_after": 700.07,
      "component_weight": 0.3,
      "calculated_deltaW": 0.021,
      "calculated_Wafter": 700.021,
      "components_after": {
        "Physiology": 700,
        "Emotion": 700,
        "Feeling": 700,
        "Thought": 700,
        "Habit": 700,
        "Performance": 700.07
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "occurrence_id": "occ-002",
    "effective_at": "2026-01-02T10:00:00Z",
    "active_decision": {
      "component": "Thought",
      "direction": "positive",
      "intensity": "low",
      "status": "applied"
    },
    "old_output": {
      "calculated_Wbefore": 700,
      "component_before": 700,
      "band": "(600,700]",
      "band_rate": 0.03,
      "adjustment_factor": 0.005,
      "direction": "positive",
      "intensity": "low",
      "intensity_multiplier": 0.3333333333333333,
      "maximum_move": 0.105,
      "calculated_component_delta": 0.035,
      "component_after": 700.035,
      "component_weight": 0.2,
      "calculated_deltaW": 0.007,
      "calculated_Wafter": 700.007,
      "components_after": {
        "Physiology": 700,
        "Emotion": 700,
        "Feeling": 700,
        "Thought": 700.035,
        "Habit": 700,
        "Performance": 700
      }
    },
    "replayed_output": {
      "calculated_Wbefore": 700.021,
      "component_before": 700,
      "band": "(600,700]",
      "band_rate": 0.03,
      "adjustment_factor": 0.005,
      "direction": "positive",
      "intensity": "low",
      "intensity_multiplier": 0.3333333333333333,
      "maximum_move": 0.105,
      "calculated_component_delta": 0.035,
      "component_after": 700.035,
      "component_weight": 0.2,
      "calculated_deltaW": 0.007,
      "calculated_Wafter": 700.028,
      "components_after": {
        "Physiology": 700,
        "Emotion": 700,
        "Feeling": 700,
        "Thought": 700.035,
        "Habit": 700,
        "Performance": 700.07
      }
    }
  }
]