# AMNESS Series II / Paper 04

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- Fourth paper of Series II.
- Introduces Effective Audience Capacity and Hard Addressable Audience.
- Proves the Audience Capacity Bound and Mass-Success Impossibility Corollary.
- Separates penetration from audience expansion.
- Defines quality-to-capacity and quality-to-penetration elasticities.
- Introduces Niche-Locked Excellence and an identity-preserving audience-expansion formulation.
- Connects individual niche ceilings to aggregate long-tail welfare.

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Date: 2026-08-14