Changelog
What changed and when. Material corrections are recorded here, never silently patched.
How versioning works
Major versions (v1.0, v2.0) mark structural change: a role added or removed, or a real revision to the architecture. Minor versions (v1.1, v1.2) roll as entries are added or revised. Material corrections, anything that changes what a published page claims, are recorded here rather than silently patched. See the errata page for how to report one.
v1.1 · June 2026
The Green Desert Effect, second pass (2026-06-10). Revision following an independent review:
- Citation corrections, recorded per the corrections policy: The Brilliance Breakthrough is 1994 (Instant Learning), not 1980; the Bai et al. 2025 article number is Nature Communications 16, 6037; Meister et al. "Locally typical sampling" is 2023 (TACL 11); Breakthrough Advertising was originally published by Prentice-Hall.
- The Bender et al. (2021) citation was repointed to what the paper argues (form without communicative intent), with Zhang et al. (2025) on typicality bias carrying the smoothing claim.
- Each of the nine functional roles gained a documented historical specimen.
- Two new figures: Fig 5 (the diagnosis, operationally) and Fig 6 (the prediction fork); the essay now carries nine figures.
Site. Light and dark reading modes on all public pages. Methodology rewritten criteria-first, documenting the inclusion gates, example selection rubric, verification loop, and the role of AI in production. New reference pages: /cite, /errata, /use-policy, and this changelog.
v1.0 · May 2026
Baseline. The Persuasion Taxonomy published at taxonomy.coppica.com as an independent reference work: the 18 Theses, the nine functional roles, the methodology, the initial set of technique entries with sourced examples, stable PT-ID identifiers, structured data for machine readers, and a machine-readable index at /llms.txt. The Green Desert Effect essay published 2026-06-09 with full bibliography and figures.