Dependency and Scope

0.1 What this paper does. It derives a consequence of the body of work: that ethics grounded in an external authority is structurally unstable, and that structure-derived ethics (Architecture B) is the alternative.

0.2 Dependencies. The 420 Code as the standing Architecture-B example (the axioms {S, B, R, C} and the kill-switch discipline). Scholarly historical sources for section 4. The one-I — the subject of KS-39.6 — is established in the body of work (Ø Predictions and The Interior). No physics result is imported into this paper.

0.3 Kill-switch summary. Six switches, KS-39.1 through KS-39.6, all live. KS-39.1 is the master; KS-39.5 (first-principles manipulation) is CRITICAL — the switch on which the body of work’s own Architecture-B standing rests; KS-39.6 (one-I violation) is NON-NEGOTIABLE. Stated in full in the Kill Switches section.

Note on numbering: KS-39.1–KS-39.6 are the dotted AP39 family; they are distinct from the legacy flat KS-39 (the a₀ numerical value, AP17/AP18) and are not sub-switches of it.

0.4 Debts. Debt 40 (scaffold transition dynamics), Debt 41 (cultural coupling preservation), Debt 42 (comparative stability measurement). All named, all located.

0.5 A note on counts. This edition states the 420 Code kill-switch total as over five hundred and fifty, per the Master Kill Switch Registry.

The argument is structural. The evidence is historical. The alternative is axiomatic. The voice is measurement.