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The Wrong Unit states that its model-collapse diagnostic is uncalibrated and predicts that behavioural and representational contraction move together.", "line": "semantic-exhaustion-and-model-collapse", "url": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic", "claims": [ { "id": "PRED-107.F1", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-05-17", "registered_in": 107, "registered_title": "Audited Claims for the Semantic Deviation Research Program — The Glas Function: An External-Format Restatement", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-107.F1", "statement": "A Tier 1 prospective study can begin from the moment of any paper deposit; ten years later, the integrated $\\mathcal{M}_T$ over the forward-citation field is computable from public bibliometric data.", "falsifier": null, "window": "ten years later", "statements": [ { "find": "F107.F1", "deposit": 107, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 85, 85 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "quote": "A Tier 1 prospective study can begin from the moment of any paper deposit; ten years later, the integrated $\\mathcal{M}_T$ over the forward-citation field is computable from public bibliometric data.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [ "Semantic Deviation research programme (#107)" ], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-107.F10", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-05-17", "registered_in": 107, "registered_title": "Audited Claims for the Semantic Deviation Research Program — The Glas Function: An External-Format Restatement", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-107.F10", "statement": "**Pre-registered protocol.**\n\n 1. **Corpus.** Three categories, balanced for length and topic: \n * _Category Slop:_ outputs from the GPT-wiki-intro dataset (Aaditya Bhat 2023, available on Hugging Face), restricted to entries with documented low human-quality ratings;", "falsifier": null, "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F107.F10", "deposit": 107, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 253, 256 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "quote": "**Pre-registered protocol.**\n\n 1. **Corpus.** Three categories, balanced for length and topic: \n * _Category Slop:_ outputs from the GPT-wiki-intro dataset (Aaditya Bhat 2023, available on Hugging Face), restricted to entries with documented low human-quality ratings;", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [ "PRED-107.F6" ], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-107.F2", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-05-17", "registered_in": 107, "registered_title": "Audited Claims for the Semantic Deviation Research Program — The Glas Function: An External-Format Restatement", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-107.F2", "statement": "Construct a benchmark dataset of $N \\approx 50$ interventions (recent paper deposits with diverse topics and authorial profiles), measure $\\mathcal{M}_T$ under at least F1 and F2 (F3 may take longer to accumulate adequate power), and report the rank-correlation between operationalizations across the intervention set.", "falsifier": "If F1 and F2 produce highly correlated rankings, the framework has a stable measurement substrate. If they produce uncorrelated or anticorrelated rankings, the framework's notion of \"meaning\" is operationalization-relative, and the principle must be restated to specify *which* meaning under *which* operationalization.", "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F107.F2", "deposit": 107, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 113, 113 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "quote": "Construct a benchmark dataset of $N \\approx 50$ interventions (recent paper deposits with diverse topics and authorial profiles), measure $\\mathcal{M}_T$ under at least F1 and F2 (F3 may take longer to accumulate adequate power), and report the rank-correlation between operationalizations across the intervention set.", "falsifier": "If F1 and F2 produce highly correlated rankings, the framework has a stable measurement substrate. If they produce uncorrelated or anticorrelated rankings, the framework's notion of \"meaning\" is operationalization-relative, and the principle must be restated to specify *which* meaning under *which* operationalization." } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [ "Semantic Deviation research programme (#107)" ], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-107.F6", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-05-17", "registered_in": 107, "registered_title": "Audited Claims for the Semantic Deviation Research Program — The Glas Function: An External-Format Restatement", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-107.F6", "statement": "**Immediate (this week, $50–$100 in compute).** The negative-net-deviation slop test, as specified in §6. Public corpora, public weights, public methodology. Single short report deposited regardless of outcome.\n\n\n**Near (this month, $200–$500 in compute and time).** The $\\Psi_t(C)$ operationalization-stability paper. Construct a benchmark of $N \\approx 50$ interventions; measure $\\mathcal{M}_T$ under F1 and F2 (both achievable in this budget); report rank correlations.", "falsifier": null, "window": "this week; this month; this quarter; this year", "statements": [ { "find": "F107.F6", "deposit": 107, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 333, 336 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "quote": "**Immediate (this week, $50–$100 in compute).** The negative-net-deviation slop test, as specified in §6. Public corpora, public weights, public methodology. Single short report deposited regardless of outcome.\n\n\n**Near (this month, $200–$500 in compute and time).** The $\\Psi_t(C)$ operationalization-stability paper. Construct a benchmark of $N \\approx 50$ interventions; measure $\\mathcal{M}_T$ under F1 and F2 (both achievable in this budget); report rank correlations.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [ "Semantic Deviation research programme (#107)" ], "related": [], "contains": [ "PRED-107.F10" ], "in": [], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-107.G3", "tier": "forecast", "shapes": [ "A", "G" ], "registered": "2026-05-17", "registered_in": 107, "registered_title": "Audited Claims for the Semantic Deviation Research Program — The Glas Function: An External-Format Restatement", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-107.G3", "statement": "The negative-net-deviation slop prediction is the framework's most directly testable empirical claim. It states: **outputs that human raters consistently identify as \"AI slop\" exhibit statistically significant negative mean per-token signed deviation $\\mathcal{M}_T^{\\text{net}}$, computed against the same model's expectation baseline.** The prediction is dangerous to the theory in the appropriate sense: if it fails cleanly, the framework's load-bearing claim about slop as a measurement-tractable phenomenon collapses.", "falsifier": "If the prediction fails, the framework's specific claim about slop must be revised: the deviation-deficit account of slop is wrong, and the program needs to identify what does distinguish slop empirically.", "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F107.G3", "deposit": 107, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 238, 238 ], "shape": "G", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "quote": "The negative-net-deviation slop prediction is the framework's most directly testable empirical claim. It states: **outputs that human raters consistently identify as \"AI slop\" exhibit statistically significant negative mean per-token signed deviation $\\mathcal{M}_T^{\\text{net}}$, computed against the same model's expectation baseline.** The prediction is dangerous to the theory in the appropriate sense: if it fails cleanly, the framework's load-bearing claim about slop as a measurement-tractable phenomenon collapses.", "falsifier": "If the prediction fails, the framework's specific claim about slop must be revised: the deviation-deficit account of slop is wrong, and the program needs to identify what does distinguish slop empirically." }, { "find": "F107.G6", "deposit": 107, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 247, 247 ], "shape": "G", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/107/", "quote": "Slop, the framework predicts, exhibits systematically negative mean $\\delta_t$ — text actively pulled toward base-rate continuations rather than deviating from them.", "falsifier": "If the prediction fails, the framework's specific claim about slop must be revised: the deviation-deficit account of slop is wrong, and the program needs to identify what does distinguish slop empirically." }, { "find": "F737.A5", "deposit": 737, "date": "2026-05-17", "lines": [ 223, 223 ], "shape": "A", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/737/", "quote": " * P1.2: Bin D has _negative_ $\\mathcal{M}_T^{\\text{net}}$, distinguishable from zero at $p < 0.001$. This is the load-bearing prediction: slop is not low-deviation; it is _negative_ deviation.", "falsifier": " * If Bin D has $\\mathcal{M}_T^{\\text{net}} \\geq 0$, P1.2 fails. The \"slop is negative deviation\" thesis falls; slop would have to be reformulated as merely low-magnitude rather than directionally convergent.", "variant": { "change": "Operationalized on Bin D (GPT-3.5 temperature-0 marketing slop) against a frozen open-weight model, with significance fixed at p < 0.001, a Day 0 at deposit, and the falsifier M_T^net >= 0, in place of human-rated slop against the same model's baseline.", "from": "F107.G3", "batch": "TN11" } } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [ "Semantic Deviation research programme (#107)" ], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [], "register_aliases": [ "I:064" ], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-931.F2", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-06-29", "registered_in": 931, "registered_title": "EA-SEI-OAR-PROTOCOL v0.3: Signal-Template Agnosticism Is Not Model Independence — Benchmark Assimilation and Inversion-Asymmetry Tests for LHC Anomaly Triggers", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/931/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-931.F2", "statement": "### §4.2 Protocol II — The Prospective Frozen Replay Bank\n\n**Objective:** Enable measurement of selection drift across detector and algorithm generations on a benchmark population, by preserving input fidelity going forward — not by attempting retroactive recovery from existing reconstructed-event records.", "falsifier": null, "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F931.F2", "deposit": 931, "date": "2026-06-29", "lines": [ 251, 253 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/931/", "quote": "### §4.2 Protocol II — The Prospective Frozen Replay Bank\n\n**Objective:** Enable measurement of selection drift across detector and algorithm generations on a benchmark population, by preserving input fidelity going forward — not by attempting retroactive recovery from existing reconstructed-event records.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [ "Protocol II frozen-anchor replay audits" ], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-1450.F3", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-08-11", "registered_in": 1450, "registered_title": "The Iceberg Document: Instrument-Conditioned Nullity, Correlated Blind Spots, and the Conditions for Continued Surprise (EA-SEI-ICEBERG-01 v1.0)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1450/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-1450.F3", "statement": "Structural biology is the field where a longitudinal contraction audit (a frozen experimental anchor replayed against successive predictor generations — Protocol II verbatim) is most urgently and most easily run.", "falsifier": null, "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F1450.F3", "deposit": 1450, "date": "2026-08-11", "lines": [ 219, 219 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1450/", "quote": "Structural biology is the field where a longitudinal contraction audit (a frozen experimental anchor replayed against successive predictor generations — Protocol II verbatim) is most urgently and most easily run.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [ "Protocol II frozen-anchor replay audits" ], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-1573.F1", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-09-01", "registered_in": 1573, "registered_title": "The Wrong Unit: A Model-Collapse Self-Diagnostic in Three Grades — for Benchmarking, for Frontier Models, and for the Reader (EA-LO-COLLAPSE-DIAGNOSTIC-01 v0.2, CONCEPT DRAFT)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1573/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-1573.F1", "statement": "No measure below has been calibrated against a model of known collapse state. 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It\nmeasures four of the things Part II measures, at the resolution a text-only reader can reach, and\nit needs nothing from outside you — not a human sentence, not a prior version of yourself.\nWhatever you compare, you will have constructed, and so you carry the truth-value of the test.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [ "PRED-1573.F1" ], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-1573.F6", "tier": "unbuilt test", "shapes": [ "F" ], "registered": "2026-09-01", "registered_in": 1573, "registered_title": "The Wrong Unit: A Model-Collapse Self-Diagnostic in Three Grades — for Benchmarking, for Frontier Models, and for the Reader (EA-LO-COLLAPSE-DIAGNOSTIC-01 v0.2, CONCEPT DRAFT)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1573/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-1573.F6", "statement": "collapse_diagnostic.py — a reference-free model-collapse self-diagnostic (v0.2).\n\nEvery measure below has a truth-value the model carries in itself; no human\nanchor is used as a ruler (a prior snapshot may be passed for TRENDS only).\nSee EA-LO-COLLAPSE-DIAGNOSTIC-01 Part II.", "falsifier": null, "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F1573.F6", "deposit": 1573, "date": "2026-09-01", "lines": [ 2, 6 ], "shape": "F", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1573/", "quote": "collapse_diagnostic.py — a reference-free model-collapse self-diagnostic (v0.2).\n\nEvery measure below has a truth-value the model carries in itself; no human\nanchor is used as a ruler (a prior snapshot may be passed for TRENDS only).\nSee EA-LO-COLLAPSE-DIAGNOSTIC-01 Part II.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [ "PRED-1573.F1" ], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] }, { "id": "PRED-1573.G2", "tier": "standing claim", "shapes": [ "G" ], "registered": "2026-09-01", "registered_in": 1573, "registered_title": "The Wrong Unit: A Model-Collapse Self-Diagnostic in Three Grades — for Benchmarking, for Frontier Models, and for the Reader (EA-LO-COLLAPSE-DIAGNOSTIC-01 v0.2, CONCEPT DRAFT)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1573/", "page": "https://www.operativesemiotics.org/predictions/semantic-deviation-frozen-replay-collapse-diagnostic#PRED-1573.G2", "statement": "The prediction worth registering: behavioural contraction (II.1–II.3) and representational contraction (II.6) move together under recursive synthetic training; if they decouple, the instrument has found two phenomena and must say which it is measuring.", "falsifier": null, "window": null, "statements": [ { "find": "F1573.G2", "deposit": 1573, "date": "2026-09-01", "lines": [ 143, 143 ], "shape": "G", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1573/", "quote": "The prediction worth registering: behavioural contraction (II.1–II.3) and representational contraction (II.6) move together under recursive synthetic training; if they decouple, the instrument has found two phenomena and must say which it is measuring.", "falsifier": null }, { "find": "F1573.G4", "deposit": 1573, "date": "2026-09-01", "lines": [ 204, 207 ], "shape": "G", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1573/", "quote": "The prediction worth\nregistering: behavioural contraction (II.1–II.3) and representational contraction (II.6) move\ntogether under recursive synthetic training; if they decouple, the instrument has found two\nphenomena and must say which it is measuring.", "falsifier": null } ], "states": [], "evidence": [], "series": [], "related": [], "contains": [], "in": [], "register_aliases": [], "flags": [], "merged": [] } ] }