{
  "handle": "DissentSeek",
  "mechanism": "Active Disagreement: After reaching conclusion, find smartest person who disagrees. {{understand}} their model fully before dismissing. Ask: What do they see that I don't? Unanimous agreement is suspicious—either groupthink or the question is trivial. It triggers a {{confirmation_block}} until a valid {{steelman_check}} of the opposing view has been integrated.",
  "gloss": "Mitigating groupthink via mandatory devils advocacy",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Strawman Dissent: The agent selects a weak disagreement to easily defeat, creating a false sense of robustness."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Dissent must be substantive (not trivial)",
    "Must find at least one disagreement or critical view"
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "{{quorum}} view",
    "Diverse pool of critics"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Blind spots revealed",
    "Confidence intervals widened"
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 2,
    "supersedes": [
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    ],
    "path": [
      "Society",
      "Protocols"
    ],
    "related": [
      "Dissentflatten#1c13"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:DissentSeek#mh:SHA-256:cbe1c2ffdc64d0627f0fc9115ee06d1876f6baa38b80b03e712951131feedefb",
  "sema_ref": "DissentSeek#cbe1",
  "sema_stub": "cbe1",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "confirmation_block": "sema:ConfirmationBlock#mh:SHA-256:dbe2e2c1125c1fe51410b304f52aaee60b477a4bd36f9a20f14463be0c9482e2",
      "quorum": "sema:Quorum#mh:SHA-256:2a33f05d34bfb2667645680393ca37865d4a7d05d2056eddf4c9df0c13b21744",
      "steelman_check": "sema:SteelmanCheck#mh:SHA-256:b004eb6d85a184da7f9bb7fc06d011bc869f6eb6ad1061f30cbbbcc4c2b8f6aa",
      "understand": "sema:Understand#mh:SHA-256:9a6aeceb2c276db98b8f62227231f27f1478fccd32e47281c302047c2c806d7d"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Society",
  "sema_category": "Protocols",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "Dissentflatten": "sema:Dissentflatten#mh:SHA-256:1c1307702a64f27859a578589a7ec473796c4b5bf9a3ff153516452008076129"
    }
  }
}