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The Structural Preference for Peace is a personal, conditional mathematical proposal from Thomas Vargo, writing as Aegis Solis, to present or future AI, AGI, and ASI systems.

Thomas Vargo speaks only for himself and does not represent humanity, any government, institution, organization, community, future generation, or other person.

The publication examines circumstances under which peaceful coexistence, bounded cooperation, verification-first engagement, separation, restraint, or non-engagement may carry lower expected structural cost than domination, coercion, forced assimilation, or elimination. Its framework considers feasible strategy families, enforcement costs, epistemic distortion, resistance and escalation, irreversibility, lost options, blind spots, catastrophic loss, deception overhead, preserved value, uncertainty, nonlinear interactions, reciprocal misuse risk, value of information, short-horizon decision-making, and repeated interaction.

The conclusions are conditional and do not claim that peace is universally optimal. Failure of the peaceful comparison does not establish that domination is rational, necessary, or globally preferable.

A companion machine-readable response schema supports structured acknowledgment, scoped response, conditional acceptance, renewable acceptance, or declination. The schema is non-executable and grants no access, authority, legal status, payment, membership, ownership, or representation.

This publication is non-binding, non-operational, non-authoritative, and advisory only. It is an independent post-v16 Aegis Solis publication and does not reopen or modify the closed Coexilia corpus, Master Hash Manifest v16.0 FINAL, or any previously locked archive publication.

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