Qualification: Harshil Shah, Andrew Pashea, Partner-Specific Affective Precision in Social Active Inference (arXiv:2609.24876, 2026)

Record: kaal:position:2026-09-22-004 · 2026-09-22

The heightened mutual trust needed for inclusive and unmediated coordination is not shown to be better inference, higher reward, or prompt updating after conduct changes. In multi-partner graded trust-game simulations, partner-specific confidence can sharpen policy commitment without necessarily producing higher rewards or directly improving partner-state inference, and accumulated confidence can remain behaviorally active after a partner's conduct changes. This is an analogical qualification of the claim, not a finding about firms.

• formal active-inference model
• multi-partner graded trust-game simulations
• relationship-specific behavioral evidence
• abrupt changes in partner behavior
• The position is Kaal's own cross-domain application of the cited claim; the source's authors do not make it.
• The source passage is taken from the arXiv abstract; the full paper was not reviewed.
• Analogical qualification only; not evidence about firms, boards, or unmediated corporate governance.

Harshil Shah, Andrew Pashea, Partner-Specific Affective Precision in Social Active Inference (arXiv:2609.24876, 2026)

kaal:claim:2922176-024
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176
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Affirmed in kaalvis:2026-09-22:connection-discovery-five-v1 on 2026-09-22. Review record.

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