The Meta-Constraint This Series Never Priced
Five posts have priced, over and over, what it costs to guess wrong about a distribution that won't hold still: borrowing five of the Constraint Sequence Framework's six named components along the way, without ever turning the sixth, Meta-Constraint Awareness, on the machinery doing the pricing. This post runs that test on its own series: a real, four-times-computed numerator, a denominator no post has ever measured, and a Return on Investment whose sign comes out genuinely undetermined, not favorably assumed. The formula's own algebra still yields a real bound on how cheap that machinery has to be, and formal metareasoning research, cited directly, explains why the missing stopping criterion isn't an oversight: it's the same unsolvable regress that research already proved exists and resolved by capping it, not computing it. Then it points the same unpriced test at the next post's own proposal (centralizing the machinery itself) before that proposal gets to claim an advantage nobody has costed either.