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Semantic Exhaustion: An Executive Summary โ€” The Depletion Threshold for Meaning-Production Across Substrates

Lee Sharks ยท 2026-01-07 ยท deposit #264
AXN:0042.GOVERNANCE.๐Ÿงฒ๐ŸŽต๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ”ง๐Ÿค

Article

The five stages are:

1. extraction; 2. extraction beyond replenishment; 3. quality degradation; 4. threshold crossing; 5. cascade.

The proposed cross-substrate loop is:

exhausted human meaning production โ†’ thinner training material โ†’ degraded machine output โ†’ increased burden on human producers โ†’ further exhaustion.

Defines (10)

CROSS-SUBSTRATE ALERT Cross-substrate cascade Current trajectory For both Human form Invisible until critical Not fatigue Not inefficiency Not scarcity To human readers

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