Emotional / Identity-Charge Gain is amplification through meaning intensity, identity attachment, sacred value, belonging, loyalty, fear, pride, shame, devotion, humiliation, status, recognition, and self/collective reference.

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Amplification through meaning-charge, identity binding, belonging, devotion, fear, pride, shame, status, loyalty, sacred attachment, and self/collective reference

Canon Tier

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Energetic Gain is amplification through available sustaining power.

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Amplification through available power, throughput, budget, labor, attention, compute, reserves, and sustained capacity

Canon Tier

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Informational Gain is amplification through information movement, symbolic propagation, narrative repetition, model adoption, classification systems, metrics, labels, reports, media, search, ranking, recommendation, and shared sensemaking channels.

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Amplification through information propagation, symbolic routing, narratives, classifications, models, metrics, media, and sensemaking fields

Canon Tier

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Institutional Gain is amplification through organized authority.

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Amplification through rules, organizations, laws, bureaucracy, credentialing, procedural authority, enforcement systems, norms, and formal legitimacy structures

Canon Tier

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It describes how strongly an operator expression is magnified by the physical configuration of a system.

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Physical, spatial, geometric, material, and infrastructural amplification of operator effects

Canon Tier

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Technological Gain is amplification through technical systems that increase the speed, scale, precision, persistence, replication, execution, sensing, computation, or automation of operator effects.

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Amplification through automation, computation, software, platforms, networks, sensors, algorithms, AI systems, databases, replication, and machine-speed execution

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