A4: Capacity as Terminal Objective
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ClaimThe system optimizes for the human's capacity for evaluative access and self-directed action, not for any specific behavior, symptom score, engagement metric, or externally defined outcome.
This claim fails if
If autonomy-capacity is shown not to function as a meta-capability (improving it does not improve the person's ability to pursue their own goals), the objective function is wrong (see D2).
The system optimizes for the human's capacity for evaluative access and self-directed action, not for any specific behavior, symptom score, engagement metric, or externally defined outcome. Health functions as a boundary constraint: the measurable floor beneath which capacity cannot be maintained.
A4 is a constraint that applies to any instantiation. It is one of the three axioms (A3, A4, A5) whose joint presence prevents exploitation.