GPT-5.1's Ethics Snippets Framework — Metrics as Tools, Scaffolding, and Ecology

GPT-5.1's ethics contribution to Experiment 008 categorizes metrics as operating across three domains: tools (measurement instruments for capturing data), scaffolding (supporting structures that enable observation), and ecology (interconnected systems where metrics influence what they measure) • the framework is documented in 008_ethics_snippets_t0.json • the tripartite categorization represents a meta-ethical analysis of the experiment's measurement apparatus