The CFS Model
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Synchronization: Ceiling, Floor, and Slope
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 The Dynamics of Uneven Realization Chapter 5 of the forthcoming book On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installments Publication Version v1.0.1 · September 10, 2026 Abstract Chapter 4 established a general mapping from Potential to Realization. This chapter asks the temporal question that follows:… Continue reading
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Ceiling, Floor, and Slope: A Falsifiable Dynamical Model of Synchronization for Gradual AGI
By W.H.L. and Claude (Sonnet 5) Champaign Magazine Series on Gradual AGI #4 Abstract Prior work in this series proposed Ceiling, Floor, and Slope as vocabulary for the rate at which societies assimilate advancing AI capability, reframing “Gradual AGI” as a civilizational assimilation rate rather than a single capability threshold. That vocabulary was descriptive: it… Continue reading