AIM Framework glossary
Parasitic Overshoot
Canonical definition
Parasitic Overshoot is the condition in which extraction passes the maximum the host sustains: aggregate service of the Mimetic Premium exceeds the population's generative capacity above subsistence, so that what is taken is no longer the surplus but the substance. It is the crossing of the boundary that Parasitic Equilibrium rides — the Interest-Only Threshold, at which service equals the whole surplus — and it arrives through the three mechanisms of Chapter 12, Section 12.30: each extractor's rate is a reference point for its rivals, no participant computes the aggregate load, and the extraction is collected now while the exhaustion arrives later.
Explanation
A parasite that takes everything above what keeps the host alive can take it forever. One that takes more ends the taking. Overshoot is the second case, and it is not a misjudgement that better extractors would avoid: nobody can see the total load, everyone prices against everyone else, and the costs arrive after the gains, so a maximum that could in principle be ridden is in practice passed. The breach registers first in the worst-off, whose margin above subsistence is smallest.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Construct.
Derivation
Chapter 12, Section 12.30; Chapter 17, Section 17.5. Formal boundary: Appendix 12A, Sections 12A.5 and 12A.7.