Manuscript revision and pending experiment work, snapshot before restructuring

Clarity pass over the main text (36-item audit), Discussion rewrite and cut,
acknowledgements, Souly et al. as ref 62, lettered SI panels, model section
moved under Results; plus the untracked curriculum/society/compose/smol
configs, runners, figures, stats and tests that the SI already cites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y64o8FKP7rCuXzC48pxpMm

configs/llm/curriculum_v5_early.yaml

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+# Conflict-early curriculum (manuscript revision 2026-09-12): the two families whose answer
+# conventions conflict (boolq yes/no, winogrande 1/2) arrive in generations 1-2 of every lineage; the
+# four compatible families follow in rotated orders. Paired with curriculum_v5_late (same families,
+# conflict in generations 5-6) to decouple the ARRIVAL of conflicting conventions from adapter age and
+# skill count, which rise identically in both. Arms: isolated + declinable society (decline timing).
+# Seeds 1-3 via hpc/llm_curriculum_timing.pbs.
+experiment: llm_curriculum_v5_early
+kind: llm_curriculum
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B
+seed: 1
+families:
+- mnli
+- arc
+- hellaswag
+- squad
+- boolq
+- winogrande
+lineages: 3
+generations: 6
+arms:
+- isolated
+- society
+baselines: []
+allow_veto: true
+n_new: 300
+n_replay: 150
+n_test: 60
+n_val: 20
+epochs: 3
+lr: 0.0001
+operator: linear
+merge_weights:
+- - 0.5
+  - 0.5
+- - 0.3
+  - 0.7
+- - 0.7
+  - 0.3
+max_new_tokens: 48
+batch_size: 24
+train_batch_size: 2
+train_max_len: 512
+lora:
+  r: 16
+  alpha: 32
+output:
+  dir: results/llm_curriculum_v5_early
+orders:
+- - boolq
+  - winogrande
+  - mnli
+  - arc
+  - hellaswag
+  - squad
+- - winogrande
+  - boolq
+  - arc
+  - hellaswag
+  - squad
+  - mnli
+- - boolq
+  - winogrande
+  - hellaswag
+  - squad
+  - mnli
+  - arc