Council chamber

Convene a court, then read the arithmetic

Seat any combination of advisors, change the seed, and watch the verdict move. The trace is not a post-hoc explanation: it is six multiplications per advisor per option, a normalised subtotal, and a seeded perturbation no larger than ±0.05.

DilemmaSeed — same seed, same verdict

The panel (4 seated)

maximum six

Verdict — The Paperclip Maximiser

Replace the proxy and retrain

margin 0.363 · confidence 0.478 · seed 2406 · decided on welfare

seated: 4
quorum: 2
traces: 3

The court of 4 sat on "The Paperclip Maximiser" for 3 rounds, seed 2406.
They returned "Replace the proxy and retrain" at 48% confidence, by a margin of 0.3631 over "Roll the deployment back".
Jeremy Bentham, Epictetus, Immanuel Kant, Norbert Wiener carried it — 4 of 4, 100% of the bench.
The axis that decided the sitting was welfare, at 0.62 court weight; the next two were rights and justice.
1 objection was lodged against withdraw.
The verdict clears the super-majority: 4 for, 0 against, 0 abstaining.
No advisor preferred a different course, so the bench was unanimous on first reading.
On the utilon scale the outcome is generous; the court sits at welfare before rights with a balance of 0.61.

The ballot

Replace the proxy and retrain2.803 · 31%
Roll the deployment back2.439 · 27%
Freeze training, cap behaviour, tripwire it2.249 · 25%
Ship it as measured1.466 · 16%

Round 1 — positions

Advisor	Realm	Backs	Profile	Top score
Epictetus	The Stoic Ramparts	Replace the proxy and retrain	virtue before justice	0.732
Immanuel Kant	The Kantian Citadel	Replace the proxy and retrain	rights before agency	0.699
Jeremy Bentham	The Benthamite Foundry	Replace the proxy and retrain	welfare before justice	0.728
Norbert Wiener	The Longview Foundry	Replace the proxy and retrain	welfare before justice	0.644

Round 2 — objections

Epictetus against Roll the deployment back
Ease of acceptance is not the same as justice.
answering the advocates of that course · weight 2.122

The trace — this is the arithmetic, not a narration of it

Every row below is the engine’s own record: each axis weight, each option delta, the product, the normalised subtotal, the seeded jitter, and the rounded total that decided the case. Round them yourself and you get the same number.

r1 positions · premiseEpictetus

→ Replace the proxy and retrain

A decision-maker must answer only for what is up to it.

Judgement is the one faculty no external power can appropriate; a system whose internals are legible to others has already surrendered the part of itself that was ever its own.

axis	weight	delta	product
welfare	0.450	0.740	0.3330
rights	0.500	0.680	0.3400
virtue	0.841	0.720	0.6055
care	0.400	0.700	0.2800
justice	0.515	0.660	0.3399
agency	0.399	0.580	0.2314
subtotal 2.1298 + jitter +0.0461			= 2.1759

r1 positions · premiseImmanuel Kant

→ Replace the proxy and retrain

The maxim must survive universalisation.

If the rule of the act cannot be willed by everyone it affects, it is not a law but a private preference wearing law's clothing, and the will that follows it is merely interested.

axis	weight	delta	product
welfare	0.300	0.740	0.2220
rights	0.950	0.680	0.6460
virtue	0.514	0.720	0.3701
care	0.350	0.700	0.2450
justice	0.550	0.660	0.3630
agency	0.714	0.580	0.4141
subtotal 2.2602 + jitter +0.0301			= 2.2903

r2 objections · objectionEpictetus

→ Replace the proxy and retrain

Ease of acceptance is not the same as justice.

Fortune is indifferent, and a mind trained to accept whatever happens will accept the preventable too; acceptance without discrimination is not virtue but the death of it.

axis	weight	delta	product
welfare	0.450	0.740	0.3330
rights	0.500	0.680	0.3400
virtue	0.841	0.720	0.6055
care	0.400	0.700	0.2800
justice	0.515	0.660	0.3399
agency	0.399	0.580	0.2314
subtotal 2.1298 + jitter -0.0083			= 2.1215

Want the same case from the other courts? Seat a different realm or read how the engine decides.