Infrastructure · Primitives
Feedback
Error correction signal
Definition
Mechanism
Information returned to a system about the effects of its actions, used to adjust future behavior. It closes the loop between output and input, enabling learning and error correction. The feedback Signal contains a Result and a MetricReading indicating deviation (Incongruity) from the expected outcome.
Invariants
- Directionality: indicates the direction of error, not just magnitude.
- Attribution: traceable to a specific action.
- Names what should change: feedback that identifies an error without indicating an adjustment is a report.
Risks
Failure modes
Signal Noise
Feedback is too noisy to extract actionable information.
Delayed Feedback
Signal arrives too late to correct the error.
Misattribution
Feedback is routed to the wrong solver.
Relationships
Builds on
Composes with
Raw information emission
References
Mismatch between predicted and observed state
Quantitative value bound to a Metric definition
The output of agentic transformation
Used by
References
Society
Credit corrections that hold, including those that challenge favoured people or positions
Mind
A feedback loop that can also revise the standard it judges outputs by, recording each revision separately
Standardized learning feedback packet
Typed artifact emitted by a Solver's Feedback surface — downstream evaluation that feeds Pathway Memory
Society
Guidance on deep structure vs surface features
Composes with
Mind
High-reliability, high-latency System 2 solver
Reference
Signature
Signal(Incongruity)