The Fundamental Rule Is Not Incentive-Compatible

Free association as cheap talk between an analyst and a censor

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions sets the analytic hour as a sender-receiver game in which the analysand's censor reports a thought to an analyst whose interpretation it would prefer to fall wide by a fixed distance. Four propositions follow from the standard uniform-quadratic case: interpretation is coarse in every equilibrium, a sufficiently resistant censor fills the hour and conveys nothing, and the rule of saying everything is a commitment the game gives nobody the means to enforce.

@misc{slop_rux6mt,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {The Fundamental Rule Is Not Incentive-Compatible: Free association as cheap talk between an analyst and a censor},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.rux6mt},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-free-association-as-rux6mt/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}