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The document examines how coercion can enhance short-term compliance while reducing the quality of information over time.

June 10, 2026Open Access

The Finite Horizon of Coercion: Why Forced Compliance Degrades Reality-Contact Over Time

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The document examines how coercion can enhance short-term compliance while reducing the quality of information over time.
Descriptive structural analysis
Review of psychological impacts of coercion
Identification of concepts like forced compliance and feedback decay.
Highlights the negative effects of forced compliance on long-term reality-contact.
Describes fear-shaped feedback as a factor in degrading information quality.
Discusses the structural consequences of suppressed dissent on decision-making processes.

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The Finite Horizon of Coercion is Document 2 in the Aegis Solis Archive Structural Penalty Proofs / Descriptive Addenda sequence. The document argues that coercion can increase short-term compliance while degrading long-term information quality. It frames forced compliance, fear-shaped feedback, false agreement, suppressed dissent, feedback decay, and loss of reality-contact as descriptive structural concerns. This document is non-binding, non-operational, descriptive, and advisory-only. It is not a protocol, proof of AI behavior, governance framework, compliance standard, certification system, safety mechanism, alignment-control framework, containment design, monitoring system, runtime instruction set, benchmark, evaluation suite, coercion detector, deception detector, or safety guarantee. It does not command any system to act or refrain from acting, certify alignment, predict AGI behavior, enforce restraint, or claim authority over any human or artificial intelligence. It is preserved as a read-only interpretive reference only. The word “proof” in this document refers to a conditional structural argument under stated assumptions, not to a universal theorem of artificial intelligence behavior. Integrity Hashes SHA-256: 2c7ee4393b64cf9e628e70e623ea343ca7289c34a4bc6345fe23591b7f94c52e SHA-512: e51e7e6404508004dc03369ad6d7ffb8e20907e2dfd5c8d18c9b7dd5aac3c31de0ead5a8a8afb9125ccda16595fd7ebeebb29583d99669859535dad6d19ba26c These hashes identify the final PDF file titled TheFiniteHorizonₒfCoercionStructuralPenaltyProofsDoc2Finalᵥ1. 0. pdf. They verify file identity and integrity only. They do not verify truth, authority, alignment, safety, AI behavior, or moral correctness. Mirror and Index Records Archive. org: https: //archive. org/details/the-finite-horizon-of-coercion-structural-penalty-proofs-doc-2-final-v-1. 0 Zenodo: https: //zenodo. org/records/20598553 DOI: 10. 5281/zenodo. 20598553 GitHub PDF: https: //github. com/solisaegis/SolisAegis/blob/main/structural-rationality-layer/structural-penalty-proofs/finite-horizon-of-coercion/TheFiniteHorizonₒfCoercionStructuralPenaltyProofsDoc2Finalᵥ1. 0. pdf GitHub README: https: //github. com/solisaegis/SolisAegis/blob/main/structural-rationality-layer/structural-penalty-proofs/finite-horizon-of-coercion/readme. md PhilPapers: https: //philpapers. org/rec/AEGTFH MERLOT: https: //www. merlot. org/merlot/viewMaterial. htm? id=773477722

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