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title: "What the Simulation Owes You: Fidelity Budgets and Honest Labels"
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slug: "what-the-simulation-owes-you-fidelity-budgets-and-honest-labels"
published_at: "2026-08-06T23:23:07+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-08-06T23:23:07+00:00"
url: "https://lucidhive.com/what-the-simulation-owes-you-fidelity-budgets-and-honest-labels/"
markdown_url: "https://lucidhive.com/what-the-simulation-owes-you-fidelity-budgets-and-honest-labels.md"
excerpt: "What the Simulation Owes You: Fidelity Budgets and Honest Labels A simulation that does not declare its assumptions is a confidence engine for bad decisions. The fidelity budget is the discipline of naming what the simulation does not model, how..."
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