Will “value lock-in”—the fixing of ethical goals or norms for future SI—secure humanity’s flourishing or freeze our worst errors for eternity? SE Press platinum protocols operationalize CEV, proxy pluralism, challenge cycles, and cross-series upgrades to guarantee every value is perpetually contestable, plural, and repairable. Only living standards—never static codes—can secure justice for an open future.

Can causality be proven? This SE Press paper delivers a warrant-tagged, audit-ready answer: causality is not absolutely provable, but is the most robust, versioned protocol for explanation and prediction in science, AI, medicine, law, and climate—always upgradable, never dogmatic.