# Mental Models Hub On 2026-09-20 the mental-models corpus was split out of this vault into a dedicated Mental Models vault. This page is what remains here: a map of the models RWKB still owns, and a record of where the rest went. ## Why the split The folder had grown to 463 pages, 62% of which had no inbound link from anywhere outside Decision Science. It was doing two unrelated jobs under one name: a genuine decision-science lens layer, and a general reference dictionary imported wholesale from the 507-model sheet. The dictionary half was never mental models at all. Disposition of all 463 pages: | Disposition | Pages | Where they are now | |---|---|---| | Migrated | 259 | Mental Models vault | | Forked | 59 | kept here **and** copied to the Mental Models vault as independent pages | | Repatriated | 38 | moved into this vault's own folders; they were never models | | Orphaned | 107 | staged in Subjects/Orphans; resolved 2026-09-29 — 98 moved off this site, 8 finance terms to Terminology/Economics, Probability Distribution to Mathematics and Power | ## The fork rule The 59 forked models are load-bearing here — Moral Hazard alone carries 54 inbound links. Both vaults hold a page under the same title, but they are **not** mirrors and are not synced. The RWKB page treats the model as it operates in American political economy; the Mental Models page treats it as a general thinking tool. They are expected to diverge. Nothing here needs to be kept in step with the other vault. ## Models RWKB still owns ### Concepts [[Adverse Selection]], [[Antifragile]], [[Baloney Detection Kit]], [[Bank Run]], [[Black Swan]], [[Boiling Frog]], [[Bounded Rationality]], [[Bystander Effect]], [[Chicken Game]], [[Chilling Effect]], [[Collective Action Problem]], [[Commitment Device]], [[Counterfactuals]], [[Creative Destruction]], [[Crossing the Rubicon]], [[Dead Hand of the Past]], [[Dysrationalia]], [[Ecological Rationality]], [[Emperors New Clothes]], [[Equality Under Law]], [[Fiduciary Duty]], [[Fifth Column]], [[Heuristics]], [[Iron Law of Oligarchy]], [[Laffer Curve]], [[Lifeboat Ethics]], [[Loss Aversion]], [[Mediocristan vs Extremistan]], [[Monopoly]], [[Moores Law]], [[Moral Hazard]], [[Narrative Fallacy]], [[Nash Equilibrium]], [[Out-Group Bias]], [[Path Dependent]], [[Preference Falsification]], [[Principal-Agent Problem]], [[Prisoners Dilemma]], [[Prospect Theory]], [[Proxy War]], [[Redundancy]], [[Reflexivity]], [[Risk]], [[Rosetta Stone]], [[Signaling Game]], [[Single Point of Failure]], [[Skin in the Game]], [[State of Nature]], [[Status Quo]], [[Streisand Effect]], [[Supply and Demand]], [[Tipping Point]], [[Tit-for-Tat]], [[Trade-Offs]], [[Tragedy of the Commons]], [[Utilitarianism]], [[Veil of Ignorance]], [[Zero Sum Game]] ### Subjects/Decision Science/Statistics [[Bayes Theorem]], Central Limit Theorem, [[Compound Interest]], [[Correlation is Not Causation]], [[Fractals]], Law of Large Numbers, Margin of Error, [[Normal Distribution]], Null Hypothesis, [[Probability]], [[Wisdom of Crowds]] ### Subjects/Philosophy [[Reductionism]] ### Subjects/Political Science [[Duvergers Law]], [[Median Voter Theorem]] ### Subjects/Science Big Bang, Black Holes, [[Butterfly Effect]], [[Determinism]], Drake Equation, [[Entropy]], [[Evolution]], General Relativity, Goldilocks Zone, Gravity, natural selection, Neuroplasticity, Newtons Laws, Observer Effect, Pseudoscience ### Subjects/Systems Science [[Resilience]] ## Repatriated - never models These were vocabulary, instruments, statutes and legal doctrine that the 507-sheet import filed as mental models. They stay in RWKB under their proper type. **Concepts** — [[Cryptocurrency]], [[E Pluribus Unum]], [[Embargo]], [[Habeas Corpus]], [[Inflation]], [[Intellectual Property]], [[Novus Ordo Seclorum]], [[Omphalos]], [[Quid Pro Quo]], [[Regnat Populus]] **Policy** — [[Capital Requirements]], [[SIFI]], [[Volcker Rule]] **Terminology/Economics** — [[Annuity]], [[Appreciation]], [[Balance Sheet]], [[Bank Reserves]], [[Capital Gains]], [[Depreciation]], [[Derivatives]], [[Dividend Payments]], [[Fractional Lending]], [[Negative Interest Rates]] **Terminology/Politics** — [[Acquittal]], [[Amicus Brief]], [[Caveat Emptor]], [[De Minimis]], [[Fishing Expedition]], [[Mens Rea]], [[Prima Facie]], [[Strict Liability]] **Terminology/Science** — Correlation, Mean, Median, Permutations, Standard Deviation, Variance **Terminology/Technology** — [[Blockchain (Mental Model)]] ## Cross-referencing the other vault Migrated pages carry an `rwkb_connections` frontmatter key listing the RWKB pages they used to link to, so an agent given both vaults can rebuild the synthesis without either vault carrying unresolved links. Nothing in this vault links into the other one. ## Related [[Decision Science Hub]], [[Logical Fallacies Hub]], [[Game Theory Hub]], [[Charlie Munger]]