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  "id": "rp:four-loops",
  "title": "The Four Loops",
  "description": "One decision. Four fields of attention.",
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  "date": "2026-09-25",
  "status": "developmental",
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  "generated_by": "Codex assistant (implementation contributor)",
  "provenance_roles": [
    "Scribe: Yuri Downing (source witness and interlocutor)",
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# The Four Loops

## Self

What assumptions, incentives, limitations, and memories shape this decision? What evidence would change the decision-maker’s mind?

## Others

Who experiences the consequences? Whose account is absent? Can affected parties challenge the interpretation or refuse participation?

## Systems

Which incentives, institutions, feedback loops, and concentrations of power does the decision reinforce? Could a locally helpful action create a harmful repeated pattern?

## Creation

What possibilities does this action bring into being or close off? What will future people or systems inherit, including those who cannot yet speak?

## Holding the loops together

The loop names are reported in the recovered conversation. The questions above are new implementation commentary. No numerical score combines them here: a conflict among lenses deserves an explicit record, not an invented precision.