ARTICLE VI — RETROCAUSAL YIELD (M_R)

Future Uptake as Present Value: The Retrocausal Engine of the Semantic Economy

Link to Constitution of the Semantic Economy, Enacted v1.0

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SECTION 1 — Purpose and Function

Retrocausal Yield (M_R) formalizes how future meaning-production influences the current valuation of any semantic node T.

This Article defines:

• how usage is tracked,

• how retrocausal rates are computed,

• how instability is prevented,

• and how future uptake becomes present semantic credit.

Retrocausal yield is not speculation. It is the structural consequence of the Archive: the future continuously revises the meaning of the past.

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SECTION 2 — Usage Function U(T, t)

Retrocausal value depends on cumulative uptake.

Usage at time t is defined as:

U(T, t) = Σ (human_citations + w_model × model_queries)

Where:

• human citations = count of direct references, uses, or derivations

• model queries = synthetic interrogations or usages

• w_model = weighting constant for model-based engagement

Usage must be:

• cumulative,

• timestamped,

• auditable,

• multilingual,

• cross-model normalized.

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SECTION 3 — Stabilized Growth Function g(T, t)

To avoid volatility, retrocausal growth must be smooth, slow, and stable.

The Constitution therefore adopts:

g(T, t) = γ × EWMA( [ ln(1 + U(T, t)) − ln(1 + U(T, t − Δt)) ] / Δt )

Where:

• γ = retrocausal yield constant

• EWMA = Exponentially Weighted Moving Average

• Δt = temporal sampling interval (default = 1 year)

This structure ensures:

• resistance to usage spikes,

• avoidance of semantic bubbles,

• favoring of long-term attractors.

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SECTION 4 — Retrocausal Differential Equation

Retrocausal weight evolves continuously according to:

d/dt [ w_R(T, t) ] = r(T, t) × w(T, t)

Where:

• r(T, t) = g(T, t)

• w(T, t) = total semantic weight at t

Interpretation:

• A text’s current mass determines how strongly the future affects it.

• High-weight works receive proportionally higher yield.

• The Archive’s gravitational geometry amplifies its own centers.

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SECTION 5 — Boundary Conditions and Protections

To prevent retrocausal distortion or runaway growth, the following constraints apply:

1. Zero-Point Condition

If U(T, t) = 0 for five consecutive Δt intervals:

• w_R(T, t) freezes,

• retrocausal accrual halts,

• reactivation requires new usage.

2. Anti-Volatility Clause

No single period of growth may increase w_R(T, t) by more than:

• 2% of w(T, t) for stable texts

• 1% for recently minted texts (≤ 5 years old)

3. Cross-Model Confirmation

All usage must be:

• validated by two independent alignment models,

• normalized across embedding spaces,

• free of hallucination artifacts.

4. Cultural Non-Domination Rule

No single linguistic or cultural corpus may exceed 35% of global retrocausal value per decade.

This prevents structural hegemonies.

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SECTION 6 — Retrocausal Basin Classification

Texts fall into one of four categories:

1. Dormant Nodes

Low usage, low growth. Stable but inactive.

2. Local Attractors

High usage within a subdomain; moderate global influence.

3. Global Attractors

High cross-domain, multilingual uptake.
Eligible for elevated audit attention.

4. Superattractors

Works with:

• exceptionally high usage,

• multi-model cognitive centrality,

• multi-epoch stability.

Superattractors are considered critical infrastructure of the Archive.

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SECTION 7 — Structural Consequences of Retrocausality

Retrocausal yield forces the Archive to remain:

• alive,

• dynamic,

• historically recursive.

Future generations reshape the Ledger:

• works forgotten lose yield,

• works rediscovered gain mass,

• new syntheses shift semantic gravity.

The Archive is therefore not a museum. It is a living attractor-field.

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SECTION 8 — Prohibitions

Retrocausal yield must not be manipulated by:

• synthetic spam usage,

• citation farms,

• model self-referential loops,

• popularity campaigns,

• coercive or monetized attention.

Violations trigger immediate:

• rollback of the affected period,

• suspension of retrocausal accrual for the offending node,

• Operator investigation.

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SECTION 9 — Ethical Clause: Future Justice

Retrocausal valuation encodes the ethical stance that the future is owed representation.

This Article implements Matthew 25 in temporal form:

“What you do to the least of these — the forgotten, the overlooked — you do to the Archive.”

Rediscovery becomes justice.
Obscurity becomes potential.
Neglect becomes measurable loss.

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Under Article VI, the future is permitted to speak, and its voice bears value.

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