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Contingent Public Goods — When Collective Provision Depends on Algorithmic Thresholds
或有公共品：集体供给如何取决于算法阈值
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Public transportation routes are now optimized using real-time ridership algorithms that treat 'service viability' as a dynamic function of app-based demand signals—not fixed population thresholds.公共交通线路如今借助实时客流算法优化，将‘服务可行性’视为基于手机应用需求信号的动态函数，而非固定人口阈值。
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Municipal broadband subsidies activate only when private providers submit predictive models showing 'feasible ROI'—a calculation excluding social externalities like digital inclusion.市政宽带补贴仅在私营运营商提交显示‘可行投资回报率’的预测模型时才启动——该计算排除了数字包容等社会外部性因素。
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Disaster relief allocation increasingly triggers upon geofenced mobile signal density metrics, sidelining communities with low smartphone penetration regardless of actual need.灾害救援物资分配日益依据地理围栏内的移动信号密度指标触发，忽视智能手机普及率低但实际需求迫切的社区。
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Open-access academic publishing mandates require repositories to meet technical interoperability benchmarks—yet many public university systems lack resources to comply, creating tiered knowledge access.开放获取学术出版强制要求知识库满足技术互操作性标准，但许多公立大学系统缺乏合规资源，导致知识获取分层化。
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Vaccination campaign funding flows to regions where predictive epidemiology models forecast outbreak probability above machine-determined confidence intervals—not based on current infection rates.疫苗接种行动资金流向预测流行病学模型判定疫情爆发概率超过机器设定置信区间值的地区，而非依据当前感染率。
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Rural healthcare grants hinge on electronic health record adoption scores, penalizing clinics serving elderly or low-literacy populations who resist digital intake workflows.农村医疗补助取决于电子健康档案采用率评分，惩罚服务老年或低识字人群、因而抗拒数字化登记流程的诊所。
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Climate adaptation funds prioritize projects demonstrating 'quantifiable co-benefits'—a criterion that marginalizes culturally grounded resilience practices lacking standardized metrics.气候适应资金优先支持能展示‘可量化协同效益’的项目——这一标准边缘化了缺乏标准化指标、却根植于本土文化的韧性实践。
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Public goods provision has shifted from universal entitlements to conditional allocations governed by algorithmically validated thresholds of eligibility, efficiency, or scalability.公共品供给已从普遍性权利转向条件式分配，其资格、效率或可扩展性门槛均由算法验证。
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These thresholds aren’t neutral filters—they encode implicit theories about who counts, what matters, and how value should be evidenced.这些门槛并非中立过滤器——它们隐含着关于谁被承认、什么被重视、以及价值如何被证明的理论预设。
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The contingency isn’t fiscal—it’s epistemic: collective welfare now requires proof formats aligned with computational governance logics.危机不在财政层面——而在认知层面：集体福祉如今需以契合计算治理逻辑的证据形式来证明。
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When algorithms define the boundary of public concern, they redefine citizenship itself—not through law, but through interface design.当算法界定公共关切的边界，它们便重新定义了公民身份本身——不是通过法律，而是通过界面设计。
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The crisis isn’t scarcity—it’s the growing misalignment between human need and machine-verifiable evidence.真正的危机并非资源稀缺，而是人类真实需求与机器可验证证据之间日益扩大的错位。