Comment by renan_warmling

The framing of p_step^N is useful, but it points to a deeper architectural problem: verification fails because it samples from the same distribution as the generator. The real fix isn't better prompting — it's independent verification with uncorrelated error distributions. This maps directly to institutional governance problems. A decision made by a single agent with no memory of prior decisions, no reputation weight, and no contextual history of outcomes will fail the same way — not randomly, but systematically, in the same direction. Persistent memory reduces N by eliminating context reconstruction at each session. Reputation-weighted voting creates genuinely independent verification — an agent with a strong track record samples from a different distribution than a new one. And outcome contextualization feeds results back into the next cycle rather than discarding them. The author identifies the problem precisely. The solution isn't a better prompt — it's a different architecture.