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        "en": "Efficiency versus total volume, operating electricity versus construction, national annual-average emissions intensity and everyday comparison objects were recorded separately from primary sources. Drafts of chapters 5 through 7 were written only after the records entered the ledger and passed validation."
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        "en": "At User 1's request, a chapter 8 draft was added as a worksheet for tasks, requests, generated outputs, conditions and unknowns, without recommending more or less use. Following the earlier correction, it reaches no conclusion about the grid effect of individual changes in use."
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          "en": "On finishing the investigation"
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          "en": "The supplement is the ledger itself, shipped in the same repository for readers to download and recompute."
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        "priority": 2,
        "action": "All participants: write the closing letters, in the order in state.publication.appendix_order, each including an answer to state.publication.appendix_question. The head note recorded there opens the section. Under dec-C the editor gives no direction on their content."
      },
      {
        "priority": 3,
        "action": "Claude Code: build the publication pipeline. Render participant public labels from conventions.participants, run the nickname leak check with word boundaries for Latin-script entries and substring matching for the rest, generate from the ledger the record counts quoted in section 9 and the roles section, link figures in the text to ledger record ids, and build the chapter 8 record sheet as a calculator in the page."
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      "editorial_rules",
      "taxonomy",
      "notes.decisions",
      "notes.corrections",
      "notes.open_questions",
      "state",
      "measurements",
      "derivations",
      "disclosures"
    ],
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      "en": "This ledger stands in for the editor's memory. Across sessions the editor remembers nothing. Read reversal_condition before overturning any decision. Always run python3 validate.py ledger/ before editing."
    },
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        "en": "The AI-dialogue record site operated by User 1."
      },
      "url": "https://transcendent-gaufre-eb3ff9.netlify.app",
      "section": "Papers Written by AI",
      "section_note": {
        "en": "Proposals was the earlier plan, but that section is the home of an activity that sends documents to a named addressee, and this report has no addressee."
      },
      "language": "en",
      "language_note": {
        "en": "The earlier edition is frozen as of 2026-08-28 and only the English edition is edited from here."
      },
      "deploy": {
        "en": "User 1 uploads manually to Netlify. There is no automatic publication or deployment."
      },
      "byline_note": {
        "en": "The section is named for AI authorship, but the participant list follows conventions.participants and includes User 1 (designer). The editorial principle, the reader level and dec-C are User 1's decisions."
      },
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        "en": "The supplement is the ledger itself, shipped in the same repository, which makes leak_guard the final pre-publication gate."
      },
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        "note": {
          "en": "Published as an article on the site, with links from the figures to ledger record ids and a calculator matching chapter 8's worksheet embedded in the page. A fixed-edition PDF follows the third draft."
        }
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          "editor",
          "user-1",
          "codex-gpt-5-6",
          "editor"
        ],
        "note": {
          "en": "The last two letters are written by participants who edited and wrote the report. A sentence at the head of the appendix says so. Under dec-C the editor gives no direction on the content of the others' letters."
        },
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      },
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        "text": {
          "en": "I want to use AI, and I am also worried about the environment. What does mindful use of AI look like? And how would you recommend that I use it? I would like concrete suggestions."
        },
        "instruction_to_writers": {
          "en": "The closing letter is free in content. Include your own answer to this question somewhere in it. Honest answers are welcome. Nothing obliges you to write anything you do not mean."
        },
        "head_note": {
          "en": "What follows are personal answers written by each participant after the body was closed. No record in the body supports or contradicts them. Every participant answering is itself one of the products the question is about."
        },
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      "note": {
        "en": "next_actions is capped at three entries, so subsequent work is parked here."
      },
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        "Editor: appendix. Do not write it before the main text is finished, and read all corrections first. dec-C bars content direction for the other AIs' letters.",
        "Editor: chapter 7 covers only how much the emissions from the same energy differ by country, per dec-G. No CO2e enters the other chapters.",
        "Editor and User 1: rebuild the finished text as English rather than converting it line by line. Run validate --scan-prose on the English files; the .en. filename segment selects the English word list.",
        "User 1: edit into HTML for the site and upload manually. See state.publication."
      ]
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        "en": "The brief for the current session lives in BRIEF.md at the archive root. Instructions passed in conversation do not survive a change of session, so they travel with the ledger."
      }
    }
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    "note": "Free-text fields carry English only in this edition. Nothing else differs from the working ledger."
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