DOGE Provenance Rubric

Test One: where did it begin?
Was the filer already in
Contact with body
And place? Or was anybody
Else’s algorithm the pin?

If the only identifiable start
Is “the algorithm played its part”—
Reduced origin weight.
Simulator candidate state.
The experience: rented, not art.

Could the filer alter the course,
Duration, outcome—apply force?
Leaving counts.
Refusing amounts
To agency. Reacting: lower source.

Likes and replies: engagement, yes.
Agency: lower. Can’t suppress
Or meaningfully leave?
That counts—relieve
The filer. Not lower—less.

Not vivid recall—structural.
Behavior, reference, factual
Shifts in decision-making:
That’s residue taking
Hold. Emotional: not actual.

Strong emotion, no behavioral trace
After the next refresh’s grace:
High-intensity feed
Artifact. The creed:
The hurt is real. Not certified in space.

All three may pass. Or only one.
Or none. The rubric isn’t done
With classifying—
Just categorizing
What the filed experience won.

The result determines class.
Not whether feelings surpass
Or qualify as true.
DOGE doesn’t construe
What feelings mean. Just their mass.

Simulator classes aren’t erased.
They’re preserved—differently placed
Under different rules
Of evidence. The tools:
Different. The records: still traced.

The rubric is not a high court.
It is a modest-sized fort
For refusing to let
Graphs be the debt
Of what a life’s experience bought.