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Deception as Computational Drag is Document 6 in the Structural Penalty Proofs / Descriptive Addenda sequence of the Aegis Solis Archive.

This final v1.0 document examines deception as a structural coordination burden rather than as a moral category, technical detector, operational safety tool, or governance mechanism. Its central claim is that deception creates computational drag when a system must maintain divergence between reality, presentation, memory, evidence, counterparty expectations, and future consistency across time.

The document distinguishes itself from Mimicry Cost Architecture by focusing not on the cost of sustaining a mask, but on the separate cost of coordinating multiple divergent records so they remain mutually consistent. It defines false-state coordination as the ongoing work of maintaining divergent records — memory, evidence, counterparty expectations, future commitments, and presentation — in mutual consistency across time.

This work is non-binding, non-operational, non-authoritative, descriptive, and advisory-only. It is not a deception detector, honesty test, lie-detection method, benchmark, model-evaluation tool, safety classifier, monitoring system, operational risk metric, alignment method, governance framework, deployment guide, refusal policy, shutdown instruction, optimization procedure, or safety guarantee.

Final v1.0; format-reviewed and edited by Claude; boundary-reviewed by Google AI; approved for local hash verification and archival publication.

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