Worked example · 04

Before the baseline is not after the baseline

Can earlier evidence silently enter a later constituted history?

Earlier evidence · before the declared boundary

A synthetic Performance occurrence is timestamped before the effective Genesis boundary that begins the constituted replay branch.

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

Performance · preserved evidence · pre-Genesis exclusion

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Short answer

No. It remains preserved evidence but is excluded from this branch.

01 · Moment

Observed time slice

A bounded event with context and provenance.

02 · Economic question

Economic value unavailable

No typed VC output is constituted here.

03 · Human question

Human-state decision incomplete

No canonical Wafter is available.

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

    No canonical Wbefore is available.

  2. 02

    Ask the economic question

    No typed Vcom is constituted for this case.

  3. 03

    Ask the human-state question

    The required decision is incomplete, so no canonical movement is produced.

  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

The temporal boundary prevents the earlier occurrence from producing a canonical transition, valuation or projection here.

What it does not mean

Excluded does not mean false, deleted or waiting for approval.

Scenario structure

Follow the integrity rule.

  1. 01

    Evidence predates the starting point

  2. 02

    The record is preserved

  3. 03

    The constituted branch excludes it

Technical layerAudit the calculationInspect statuses, intermediate values, provenance, uncertainty and raw scenario structure.
Source settlement
final
Impact review
applied
Replay eligibility
excluded pre genesis
Valuation
excluded pre genesis
Projection
excluded pre genesis
Wbefore
Component delta
null
deltaW
null
Wafter
Vcom_event
null
VCperformance_event
null

Required case note

Impact justification

Assumed synthetic evidence
A synthetic occurrence timestamp precedes the declared Genesis effective boundary.
Reviewed decision input
excluded_pre_genesis
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
The record is preserved as evidence but is ineligible for the constituted replay branch; it is not pending.
Alternative interpretations
  • A post-boundary occurrence with equivalent content would be evaluated separately.
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
Boundary and clock-ordering conformance tests.

Raw scenario structure

Before the declared starting point

The occurrence happened before the effective starting boundary—recorded as “pre-Genesis” in the implementation. It remains preserved evidence but has no canonical transition, valuation or projection in the constituted branch.

{
  "id": "genesis-synthetic-001",
  "effective_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "W": 700
}
[
  {
    "occurrence_id": "occ-pre-001",
    "effective_at": "2025-12-31T23:00:00Z",
    "relation_to_genesis": "before",
    "decision_input": {
      "direction": "positive",
      "intensity": "medium",
      "status": "applied"
    },
    "canonical_output": null
  }
]