AIM Framework glossary
Salience Sufficiency Principle
Canonical definition
The design principle that intermittent Salience is necessary and sufficient for Appetitive and Intrinsic provisioning through other Individuals, while continuous high Salience is neither required nor costless: nobody needs to be Salient all of the time, and everybody needs to be Salient some of the time so that provisioning can follow. The Salience Sufficiency Principle is a derived consequence of the Salience-Status Identity (Status is Salience aggregated across observers and low-pass-filtered over time) together with the Salience-Emission Asymmetry (the operative want is "be Salient so I can get what I need," not continuous high valuation). At the high end of the spectrum, Salience that does not return to baseline (fame) crowds out privacy and private life; at the low end, chronic non-Salience (the poor, lower-socioeconomic groups, and populations treated as globally invisible) denies the intermittent recognition through which A-I needs are met in a social species. Fame and chronic invisibility are therefore opposite ends of one Salience spectrum, not two phenomena. The Levelling-Up Principle addresses the floor (universal extension of regard); Humane Visibility and Bounded M address the ceiling (constraint on gratuitous observability). The design target is Salience sufficiency distributed across persons and over time, not Salience maximisation and not Salience elimination.
Explanation
Status is just how much people notice you, totalled up across the crowd and over time. You do not need to be noticed every hour of every day. You do need to be noticed often enough that other people actually help you get what you need — food, shelter, work, care, a fair hearing. Famous people have the opposite problem: they cannot stop being noticed, and the attention eats their private life. Poor people and people the world treats as unimportant have the other end of the same problem: they are almost never noticed, so the help and recognition that should come through never arrives. Same dial; opposite ends. The right aim is enough notice for everyone, some of the time — not maximum fame, and not trying to switch noticing off.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle. Derived from the Salience-Status Identity and the Salience-Emission Asymmetry; complements the Levelling-Up Principle (floor) and Humane Visibility / Bounded M (ceiling). Canonical treatment: Chapter 8, Section 8.12.7.