HSRP-595
The research on avoiding unwelcome information explains avoidance by its expected cost, supporting this page's mechanism, not a builder behind it.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
The research on avoiding unwelcome information explains avoidance by its expected cost, supporting this page's mechanism, not a builder behind it.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHO BUILDS THE HIVE › What it does not show. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "a limit set by the project's own audit". Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W4b-7.
3. What it rests on
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The research on avoiding unwelcome information agrees that a hive needs no designer. It explains avoidance by the psychological cost people expect, not by an installed apparatus of suppression, and so supports this page's mechanism, not a builder behind it.
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
a limit set by the project's own audit
The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-414 · PROBABLE · THE TWO HIVE MINDS: party loyalty in the United States works as a social identity, and voters largely follow it. Rests on: the publisher's description of Achen and Bartels, Democracy for Realists (2016) (voters choose "on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues"; the book itself not opened); Finkel and fourteen co-authors, Science 370 (2020) (political sectarianism defined at p. 533; "cold feelings toward the out-party now exceed warm feelings toward the in-party", p. 533; a majority-party candidate "could get elected despite openly violating democratic principles", p. 535, reporting Graham and Svolik 2020, not opened); Rathje, Van Bavel and van der Linden, PNAS 2021 (each out-group term raised the odds of a post being shared by 67%, from the abstract, which gives n = 2,730,215; observational; sharing, not votes). Washington's Farewell Address (1796) is quoted as a text, the two fragments being the opening and closing words of one sentence. Against, carried on the page: Druckman, Green and Iyengar (2023) found "scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S." That the two party hive minds are steered by design is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found; what is found is an incentive that rewards hostility. The model of the hive mind is this site's own, set out on /the-hive-mind, whose section 9 is "THE TWO-PARTY ARCHITECTURE", and on /psycho-vulgarism.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-446 · PROBABLE · A cue from the source a hive trusts moves members more than a persuasive message does, even against their earlier views and in either direction.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-453 · PROBABLE · Norms, network spread and party cues, the chain's parts, are each studied on their own.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-533 · PROBABLE · From 1310 to 1687 seven Western condemnations, Catholic and Protestant, named an inner teaching as the offense where it claimed freedom from the office's means; mystics within the sacraments were made saints.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-534 · PROBABLE · Elsewhere an inner doctrine was named more often than it decided, with faction, succession or a crisis at the center at work too.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-539 · WORKING · What the record supports is interest without design: an office that runs the outer form gains a stake in keeping it, planned or not.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-594 · WORKING · Offices of opposed creeds made the same moves, licensing one body, closing the rest and condemning teaching that went around the office, from Rome's Senate in 186 BC to an Ottoman sultan and the Turkish republic; one designing class across history is not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-596 · WORKING · Both poles close: the suppressed inner traditions and the offices that suppressed them both closed themselves off and appealed to a founding beyond review, and the difference lay in power and its outcomes.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“The research on avoiding unwelcome information explains avoidance by its expected cost, supporting this page's mechanism, not a builder behind it — a limit set by the project's own audit”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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