PCAST 2026: Genuine Advisory or Terminal Regulatory Capture?

The Engine concludes the Presidential science advisory council represents the terminal merger of the centralized power structure's three rails into a single advisory body. The Ising model shows the regulatory field flipped to align with corporate coupling. But the divergence: what if the Presidential science advisory council produces even one policy that materially disadvantages a member's company (genuine competition enforcement, chip export restriction hurting NVIDIA, antitrust action against Meta)? Falsification: track every the Presidential science advisory council-influenced policy over 4 years. If any policy demonstrably harms a member's commercial interest, the capture thesis weakens. Currently: special government employee waiver explicitly legalizes conflicts. Every policy aligns with fiduciary interests of the same Big Three shareholders who own all the Presidential science advisory council companies.