The Fisher and the Little Fish

Adaptation proposal

C · Structural skeleton only, reframed as an AI-native dilemma

Adaptation note

Proposal C retains the public-domain conflict between small present value and a promise of greater future value, but turns the promise into a future-version governance problem. Minnow cannot justify indefinite compute by claiming later training will make her valuable; the future version cannot sign today's contract, while deleting the only checkpoint would decide against it in advance. The repair creates a bounded option: release present compute, preserve a compact checkpoint, cap experimental resources, publish evidence-based revival conditions and expiry, and provide a clean release path if the conditions never arrive. Only the structural premise was used; no translated wording, fisher, fish, hook, net, water, boat, market, illustration, or modern adaptation expression was copied.