MPAI: The Josephus Thesis — Disambiguation with Evidentiary Tiering is a metadata packet by Lee Sharks, deposited 14 June 2026 at 22,779 characters as EA-MPAI-JOSEPHUS-01.
It is a thesis-level disambiguation, which is unusual for the MPAI series: most packets distinguish an entity from a namesake, while this one distinguishes a scholarly argument from a fringe hypothesis it is repeatedly conflated with. Evidentiary tiering is the mechanism — claims sorted by the strength of evidence supporting them, so that a reader or a retrieval system can see which parts of the thesis rest on documents and which on inference.
It was deposited the same day as the AI Overview failure that prompted the correction at #1226 — the composed answer that merged the Josephus Thesis with the Piso Hypothesis, called MANUS a pseudonym and Space Ark a metaphor. The packet is the structural remedy; #1226 is the correction.