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  "handle": "FractionalDelivery",
  "ref": "FractionalDelivery#a3e4",
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  "semaId": "sema:FractionalDelivery#mh:SHA-256:a3e4407eeea1b39773703461d2a925c52271117970962f4fb668a8ce70c30d3a",
  "layer": "Mind",
  "category": "Strategy",
  "gloss": "Partly build responses to possible stressors; the cost of carrying them is preparedness",
  "mechanism": "Rather than fully building or omitting a response to each possible exogenous stressor, build it fractionally: complete some of the components it needs, such as data carried through two of three pipeline stages. If the stressor arrives, few components remain to change; if it never will, the fraction is removed. Partly built function is an endogenous stress, a carrying cost and a source of friction, but it is also the stored optionality described in {{rejection_cost_optionality}}. The right level of fractional delivery rises with the likelihood of the stressor. It makes the stressor integration of {{residuality_stressor_integration}} cheaper. Fast metrics of endogenous stress, such as today's rejection rate, can signal an exogenous stressor and trigger full delivery.",
  "invariants": [
    "Full delivery and no delivery are special cases of fractional delivery",
    "Endogenous stress rises with the amount of partly delivered function"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "An over-stressed system carries many fractions that will never be needed",
    "An under-stressed system has too little prepared to adapt in time",
    "Reading the friction of partly built function as pure inefficiency and removing it"
  ],
  "ring": 2,
  "tier": 3,
  "aliases": {
    "rejection_cost_optionality": "RejectionCostOptionality",
    "residuality_stressor_integration": "ResidualityStressorIntegration"
  },
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    {
      "handle": "RejectionCostOptionality",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "rejection_cost_optionality",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/RejectionCostOptionality/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/RejectionCostOptionality.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "ResidualityStressorIntegration",
      "type": "composes_with",
      "alias": "residuality_stressor_integration",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/ResidualityStressorIntegration/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/ResidualityStressorIntegration.json"
    }
  ],
  "usedBy": [],
  "sources": {
    "research": [],
    "works": [
      {
        "kind": "book",
        "label": "On the Origin of Risk",
        "note": "(Timlett 2025), Technical appendix I (fractional meta-models, endogenous and exogenous stressors)",
        "url": "/research/on_the_origin_of_risk/"
      }
    ],
    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/FractionalDelivery/",
  "graphUrl": "/knowledge-graph#FractionalDelivery",
  "directory": "/knowledge-graph/patterns.json"
}