Semantic Economy Is Not Semantic Economics: A Provenance and Disambiguation Note on Labor, Value, and Semantic Extraction

Boundary Note. This document establishes the boundary between the Semantic Economy framework developed in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (CHA) since January 2025 and the Semantic Economics framework developed by Jonas Jakob Gebendorfer as an extension of his Semantic Physics program (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100880, May 9, 2026). The two projects share adjacent terminology and overlapping concern with cost-bearing semantic structure. They are not equivalent. They differ in object, method, measurement architecture, and — most consequentially — in whether the analysis begins from labor. Semantic Economy (CHA / Sharks) is a labor theory: meaning is produced by labor, the production has cost, the cost is borne by the producer, and institutional, platform, and compositional systems capture the value of the production while externalizing the cost. Central instruments: ARC, IOC, CDI, PER, SPXI, Three Compressions, Encyclotron, AARC. Governing documents: Constitution of the Semantic Economy (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19923120), Restored Academy Charter (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20327083). Semantic Economics (Gebendorfer) is a constitutive-operational program modeling economic phenomena as held differences under cost, grounded in the DQ grammar (drive, hold, blockade, boundary) and the Hold-Capacity anchor. Central instrument: H* threshold in banking crises. The CHA cited Gebendorfer's Semantic Physics corpus during its own Semantic Physics consolidation (Framework 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20251736). Gebendorfer's Semantic Economics paper, entering a namespace the CHA has occupied for over sixteen months, does not cite the CHA's Semantic Economy framework. This note makes the asymmetry visible and proposes a standing disambiguation for future work in either tradition. 'A semantic theory of economics that does not begin from labor risks becoming a physics of the commodity fetish.' Document class: Boundary Note (provenance adjacency and disambiguation). ~2,000 words.