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intro: thesis sentence recast from perspective-claim to motivation + activity

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'The claim of this paper is that the vocabulary should be given its
mathematics' framed the paper as advocacy; a research paper states what
it does. Now: the population observation motivates the work, and we
transfer the framework and use it to treat inheritance, diversity, and
compatibility as measurable, predictable, manageable quantities.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
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@ -61,11 +61,10 @@ machine-generated or machine-translated text (14, 15), and the stock of human te
exhausted by frontier training within this decade (16). Meanwhile persistent multi-agent systems and
emerging agent economies put many interacting models into sustained contact (17–20). A population
whose members inherit from one another, recombine, and retransmit under these conditions is an
evolving population in the technical sense. The claim of this paper is that the vocabulary should be
given its mathematics: multigenerational model populations are systems whose inheritance,
diversity, and compatibility must be managed, not merely collections of models to optimise, and the
branch of biology that studies exactly this problem, the population genetics of the evolution of sex,
transfers as a quantitative framework.
evolving population in the technical sense, and that observation motivates this work. Here we
transfer the quantitative framework of the branch of biology built for exactly this situation, the
population genetics of the evolution of sex, and use it to treat multigenerational model populations
as systems whose inheritance, diversity, and compatibility can be measured, predicted, and managed.
The diagnosis comes first. Training each generation of a model on the previous generation's output
degrades it (*model collapse*): rare capabilities vanish first, and the lineage drifts toward its own