Jovanovic, Vladisav: Against SI-Theater: Observation, Inference, and Revision in Structural Analysis

This paper develops a methodological self-critique of Structural Intelligence (SI). SI was designed to distinguish coherence from contact and to test whether persons, systems, institutions, arguments, or AI outputs remain answerable under contradiction, consequence, and revision. The paper argues, however, that SI becomes weaker rather than stronger when its own vocabulary is allowed to manufacture hidden depth too quickly. It names this failure mode SI-theater: the use of structural language to