Neutral Substrates: A Design Constraint for Shared Records Under Persistent Interpretive Disagreement

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arXiv:2601.14271v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Shared accountability records are often used by parties who may never agree about causation, responsibility, or normative interpretation. For such records, neutrality cannot be achieved by omitting contested information, because accountability requires preserving the claims parties made, with their sources and provenance. Nor can neutrality be achieved by asserting one contested interpretation as the shared base. This paper defines a neutral su