The Survival Theorem: uncontrolled acceleration crashes, forced deceleration crashes later and harder, and what survives is controlled speed matched to grip. Pick a worldview or drag the dials. The world band races the hazard model (same equations as the Python engine); the kitchen band shows the only number that survives contact with a household: hours of work per week for food, shelter and energy, per tribe. Discover for yourself what the proof table then states. New here? Read the axiom and the theorem first.
| ARRIVED | you cross the transition first, intact, and set its terms. Britain and the railway age. |
| CONVOY | the pack arrives together because knowledge was shared or standardized; the gains without the wreck. Rail gauge standardization, open protocols, FOSS. Once everyone knows the secret of fire, nobody has an advantage, and everybody has fire. |
| SHOTGUN | someone else crosses first and you live in the world they chose. Tokugawa Japan and Perry's black ships. |
| HELD | nobody crosses; the transition is refused, and you pay in everything it would have bought. |
| CRASHED | a corner taken beyond your control authority. Chernobyl. |
| PILEUP | the coupled crash: everyone leaning on everyone, everyone down together. The Late Bronze Age; 2008 with balance sheets instead of bronze. |
The honesty toggle re-runs the whole table with every worldview's coordination forced to zero. Watch what happens to the s/acc column: its wins come from the K dial, not from private virtue. force K = 0
Same constants as steering_envelope/model.py and society.py (calibration pinned by the pytest suite). Baselines are toy calibrations for ordinal realism, not measurements; the empirical claims live on the essay page with the validation suite.