Glossary entry

Correction Capacity

Glossary entry in Ethotechnic capabilities (what systems must be able to do). Definitions, checks, and evidence for Correction Capacity.

Quick takeaways

The measured ability to actually intervene: which interventions exist, who may invoke them, how long they take, and how much load the institution can absorb while they run.

Definition

The measured ability to actually intervene: which interventions exist, who may invoke them, how long they take, and how much load the institution can absorb while they run. Capacity is counted in people, clocks, and rehearsals rather than asserted in a policy.

It matters because a correction obligation with no matching capacity is a promise the institution cannot keep. Capacity is also perishable, losing ground to capacity depreciation unless it is replenished, and its detection component counts for nothing without evaluation independence. Capacity is the quantity that must grow alongside delegated agency, and it is the property an evaluation layer above the model is needed to test.

AgencyMeasurable

Scale: Organizational · Phases: Deployment, Repair · Measurability: Fully measurable · Maturity: Core concept

Scope
C. Ethotechnic capabilities (what systems must be able to do). Design requirements that keep people safe when systems scale.
Genealogy
Turns Law IV from a duty into a measurement: correction capacity is what the institution can demonstrate, not what it intends.

Adjacent terms

Correction Obligation Delegated Agency Time-to-Restore (TTR) Graceful Rollback Lanes

Related concepts

Also tagged: Agency

Delegated Agency Consequential Decision Justified Delegation Stoppability Reversibility Fair Burden Distribution

Also tagged: Measurable

Dependency State Exposure Score Substitution Cost Evaluation Layer Falsified Denominator Challenge Density

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Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Correction Capacity. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/correction-capacity

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Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Correction Capacity." Ethotechnics glossary. Sep 18, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/correction-capacity.

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@misc{glossary_correction-capacity,
  title={Correction Capacity},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/correction-capacity},
  version={v1.4.0}
}

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  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Sep 18, 2026
  • Version: v1.4.0
  • DOI: Pending Zenodo deposit

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Changelog

  • v1.7.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Non-Finality, Consequential Contradiction, and The Excluded Case, and generalized the falsified denominator into the falsified ledger — completing the five concerns and the fallibilist ground they stand on.
  • v1.6.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Human Non-Substitutability, Safe Incompleteness, Anti-Conversion Rights, Abstention, Constitutional Debt, Discretion Migration, and Corrigibility Rent — the person-side principles, the three abstentions, and the rent concept.
  • v1.5.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Exception Absorption, Exception Learning, Case Corrigibility, Structural Corrigibility, Institutional Learning, Corrective Debt, and the Workaround Presumption, formalizing the historical turn: reading institutions through their failure trajectories rather than their stated controls.
  • v1.4.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Residual Complexity, Complexity Displacement, Falsified Denominator, Closure Without Remainder, Constitutional Governance, and Post-Optimization Rigor, embedding the foundational contention of burden redistribution.
  • v1.3.0 · 2026-09-11 — Added Attestation, Liability Record, Carve-Out, Delegation Chain, Composed Latency, and Silent-Harm Discovery, each bound to the standard clause that requires it.
  • v1.2.0 · 2026-09-08 — Added The Non-Conversion Principle, Exit Cost, and Jurisdictional Path Dependence, each linked to the theory essay that argues for it.
  • v1.1.0 · 2026-01-09 — Expanded scholarly metadata, operational tests, and provenance notes.
  • v1.0.0 · 2025-12-03 — Initial glossary release with stable permalinks.