The Floor That Does Not Rise: Reset Events, Queueing Instability, and the Hard–Soft Floor Distinction (Complete Final Edition & Companion Module: The Queue Behind the Frontier)

Complete Final Edition containing the primary formal paper The Floor That Does Not Rise: Reset Events, Queueing Instability, and the Hard–Soft Floor Distinction, along with the designated quantitative companion module The Queue Behind the Frontier: A Quantitative Module on Longevity-Biotechnology Access, Extending the Political Economy of Volume IV, and complete empirical replication data (Excel tables, research audit, and publication figures). Author: Gia Bao Huynh (ORCID: 0009-0008-2372-5852, [email protected])Collaborator: Claude (Anthropic) Deposited Artifacts: The_Floor_That_Does_Not_Rise_FINAL.pdf: Master 11-page formal paper analyzing the workload process V(t), queueing instability rho(t) > 1, and the hard/soft floor distinction across U.S. Housing construction (null control), AI capability growth (METR task horizons, T50 = 7.2 months), AI distillation extraction economy (Anthropic disclosures), and Cybersecurity vulnerability management (CVE/CNA/KEV). Queue_Behind_the_Frontier.pdf: 7-page quantitative companion module analyzing the Delivery Clock (Tufts CSDD 50-year dataset; Phase I-to-approval 12%) vs. Discovery Clock (METR 4.0-month doubling scenario), CALERIE trial epigenetic clock rate reductions (DunedinPACE d=0.3, 2.5% slowing; PhenoAge and GrimAge null), Anthropic export-control pause natural experiment (June 12–30, 2026), tiered access pricing ($4/mo generic to $85k/yr concierge), COVAX distribution ceilings, and falsification conditions G1–G5. biotech_module_sourced_facts.xlsx: Verified empirical citations, parameter estimates, and primary source URLs for all quantitative assertions in the companion module. all_tables.xlsx: Complete 13-sheet econometric and queueing model outputs. research_data_audit.pdf: Comprehensive research data provenance audit report. all_figures.zip: High-resolution publication figures and diagnostic plots. GitHub Repository: https://github.com/giabaohuynhasu/the-floor-that-does-not-riseHugging Face Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/giabaohuynhasu/the-floor-that-does-not-rise