Infrastructure · Primitives
QuasiCryptographicChange
Hand back the room a prediction frees up as visible efficiency savings: same function, measurably cheaper, nothing hidden
Definition
Mechanism
The simplest form of CryptographicChange. A ProductivePredictionMachine removes states or skips inputs that a prediction makes unnecessary, and the saving is passed on to whoever budgets the process. Function is unchanged, cost goes down, and the change is detectable as greater efficiency, so the processing remains transparent: there is no room in the budget for anything but the original function. This is ordinary streamlining of an organisational process. Because predictions can fail, the risk is managed by occasionally attending to the inputs predicted to be skippable, at a frequency between full and partial exploitation of the prediction.
Invariants
- Function is unchanged while the prediction holds
- The saving is visible to the budget holder
- No additional process occupies the freed room
Risks
Failure modes
Streamlining so completely that a failed prediction goes unnoticed
Assuming the skipped waypoints have no positive value
Over-specialising tasks so that the variety needed for later additional functions is gone
Relationships
Builds on
References
Using the room a prediction frees up in a process, either to return visible savings or to run extra functions that the process's outputs do not reveal
A machine simplified by a prediction about its inputs, so that it does the same work with less, for as long as the prediction holds
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.