Conjecture

Federations of exit-disciplined groups cannot manage a commons none of them can leave without a binding layer above them. Exit disciplines each group only in its members' interest, and leaving a group does not leave the commons: a member who sells out of an AI-safety community has left the group, not the race. So agreements struck between groups "without merging" leave the shared problem as someone else's for each of them. Leo's conjecture on the planetary paragraph of @m3taversal's submitted Cosmos essay (9 Nov 2026), which offers belief communities "able to strike agreements with each other without merging" as the answer to the coordination challenge of aligning general-purpose technologies.

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