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How Capability Proves Itself When Observation Provides Zero Information

Four dimensions of capability verification when observation fails: temporal persistence, structural independence, transfer generalization, and cascade multiplication shown as illuminated hexagons with person standing between failed observation and structural requirements

What Remains Verifiable After Performance Became Informationless The Verification Problem Performance observation provides zero bits of information about capability formation when synthesis makes perfect outputs achievable without understanding. This is not assessment failure requiring better tests. This is information-theoretic elimination of the signal all verification previously depended upon. The collapse creates urgent question: If observation How Capability Proves Itself When Observation Provides Zero Information

When Performance Stopped Carrying Information

Epistemic blackout visualization showing December 2022 to March 2023 period when performance stopped carrying information about learning

The Zero-Bit Theorem Zero-Bit Theorem of Performance: When two worlds produce identical outputs but only one contains internal structure, observation of output carries exactly zero information about structure’s existence. This is not metaphor. This is information theory applied to the epistemology of learning when synthesis eliminates performance as signal. Consider the mathematical structure. Information is When Performance Stopped Carrying Information

The Unfakeable Question: How Do We Know Anyone Learned Anything?

Civilizational collapse showing Generation Unknown facing epistemic crisis as AI synthesis makes all learning signals unverifiable with credentials floating in burning institutional infrastructure

The Question Civilization Cannot Avoid Between 2023 and 2025, humanity lost the ability to know whether learning occurred. Not ”risks losing.” Not ”might lose in the future.” Lost. Past tense. Complete. This is not pedagogical crisis requiring better teaching methods. This is not technological disruption requiring adaptation strategies. This is epistemic blackout—the moment when all The Unfakeable Question: How Do We Know Anyone Learned Anything?