Replaces the three-paragraph methods sketch with a scientific account of how
the study was run (M1-M7):
- M1 design principles: cheapest falsifying tier; match claim precision to
instrument precision; every tier gets an oracle independent of the model
being measured; falsifiers declared before running.
- M2 replication: what a replicate *is* differs by tier (independent lineage /
lineage incl. fresh init and data order / training seed with test sets held
fixed), and a table giving every experiment's replicate count with the
reasoning - why 200 for E4 (per-item binary outcomes), 60 for the bridge
gate (must detect any departure), 3-5 where the contrast is categorical,
and 1 for the 7B runs, labelled as single runs.
- M3-M5 per-tier procedures: parameter choices and their justification, the
correlated-parent construction, why the neural sandbox is synthetic (a
lossless identity code plus style entropy gives an exact oracle while still
forcing the model to learn a distribution), MNIST modes and the frozen-CNN
oracle with its confusion matrix as measurement floor, why no-BatchNorm MLPs
for the alignment analysis, and for the LLM tier: why Qwen 0.5B/7B (one
family so scale is the only variable), why procedural tasks rather than a
benchmark (exact verifier, contamination-free, controlled disjointness, a
difficulty knob), why LoRA (confines each parent to an additive low-rank
delta over an identical base, which is what makes weight-space
recombination well defined), the training algorithm, and the split scheme.
- M6 negative controls, including the one that removed a result: the
compatible-overlap axis collapsed the delta-cosine predictor from rho=+0.60
to +0.03.
- M7 statistical procedures.
Also: SI voice converted to first person and terminology synced to the
"biological model" rename; removed a process ghost from the preamble
("Skeleton assembled at Phase 4"); build.py now takes a document argument and
no longer eats documents that lack a title block, so the SI compiles via a new
si.tex wrapper (10 pp). `make paper` builds both PDFs.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
Per GG: the biological model goes pastel green (nature), the two AI tiers
light and darker pastel blue; header text switches from white to the dark
shade of each hue (white is unreadable on pastel). A green-pea icon honours
Mendel in the biology header; a friendly robot marks the two AI headers.
Icons are Flaticon #2347052 and #10479785, used under GG's paid Flaticon
licence (noted in make_figs.py); header text is centred slightly left of a
dedicated icon slot so nothing collides. Caption colour sentence updated
(green vs blues).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
"Model" now means an AI model everywhere; the Wright-Fisher construct is "the
biological model" throughout (19 occurrences): tier header, section title (now
"The biological model, and where trained learners depart from it"), Table 1
support column ("Exact" -> "Closed form"; "Analytic model" -> "Biological
model"), Results, Discussion, Methods ("Biological-model tier"), and all
figure captions. "Exact" survives only in technical noun phrases (exact-match
verifier, exact oracle, exact equilibrium, exact recovery); the abstract's
"exactly Wright-Fisher" is now "literally Wright-Fisher".
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The paper's key move drawn as a two-panel partner to the programme grid (now
Fig. 1A): on the left, the usual picture — contemporaries exchanging messages
(multi-agent systems, one moment on the clock); on the right, the same
ecosystem seen along its time axis — a pedigree in which a rare capability
(gold dot) is lost under single-parent inheritance, reassembled by merging
complementary parents, and re-supplied by grounding from a reality that can
say no (the globe). Friendly-robot glyphs, colour-coded capability dots;
build.py now stacks multiple PDFs per figure; the Introduction cites 1A and
1B in panel order.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
Each filled cell now carries, in its bottom-right corner, the figure or table
where that result is reported (Fig. 2A ... Figs. 7E-F, 3C-D); the caption says
so. Building the mapping surfaced one imprecise citation: the bred-and-screened
seed-replication claim cited Fig. 3A, whose panel shows the soup/ties bars -
that result lives in SI Appendix Table S2, and the citation now says so.
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Category separation per GG: population genetics stays blue, both AI tiers move
to shades of orange, with a wider gutter between the theory column and the AI
pair. The grounding x LLM cell is upgraded from "not tested" to "established
at LLM scale in prior work (21, 30); not re-run here" (Shumailov's Nature
collapse result; Gerstgrasser's real-data rescue) - it was never a gap, it was
already settled. The caption now states the fill principle: each claim is
tested at the cheapest tier that can falsify it; a costlier tier is entered
only where it adds a discriminating test, and the LLM society is the one
genuinely open cell.
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"Model" is reserved for AI models in this paper, so a tier named "Exact
model" read as a kind of AI model; the tier is the Wright-Fisher theory run
exactly. Caption and Introduction adjusted to match ("three tiers" rather
than "three tiers of model architecture"; "an exact population-genetic
simulator").
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
Row labels now teach the vocabulary (grounding = immigration, recombination =
sex, epistasis, the composed society, speciation = reproductive isolation),
each with a two-to-three-line definition in the left margin, replacing the
question taglines. The in-figure title/arrow is removed (the caption carries
it); the tier header row is now solid-colour with white text so the
model-nature band reads as a header rather than a content row.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
Replaces the results table with a pipeline figure: five questions x three
architecture tiers (exact Wright-Fisher simulator, trained networks, language
models), filled cells naming the experiments, dashed cells the honest gaps.
Table 1 (the dictionary) stays; Table 2 moves to SI Appendix Table S2. The
renumber surfaced a pre-existing citation-order violation (the LLM figure was
cited in the recombination section before Figs. 3-6), so figures are renumbered
to strict first-citation order (LLM tier is now Fig. 3). Fig. 2B: the montage's
baked-in raster labels are cropped away and replaced with vector row numbers
under a rotated "generation" header.
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All 66 references renumbered to first-appearance order (programmatically
verified: in-text sequence = 1..66 = list order; ranges expanded,
remapped, recompressed) and rewritten in PNAS style (initials-first
authors with the >5 -> et-al rule, sentence-case titles, abbreviated
italic venues, bold volumes, year-at-end, arXiv [Preprint] + 10.48550
DOIs). Correctness: 47 arXiv ids batch-verified against the arXiv API
(title/first-author/year); caught and fixed an authorless GENOME entry
(Y. Zhang et al.), "Sakana AI" -> J. Abrantes et al., a wrong Kotha id
(2310.05719, a different paper -> 2309.10105), Nemotron's corporate
author, and Liang's truncated title. Also: six load-bearing refs that
lost their in-text anchors during the restructure re-anchored (NK, QD,
Pari, LoRA, Sharma, Kozodoi), one real mis-citation fixed
(Self-Instruct credited to Multiagent-Finetuning; new ref added), and
four figure captions in build.py brought up to third-review calibration
(operational grounding threshold; first-order conservation;
complementary-contributions society; permutation-and-rescaling
alignment). 20-pp rebuild clean.
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paper/pnas/main.md — the manuscript restructured as a research article
(~5.6k words main text): significance statement, abstract, introduction
(diagnosis conceded; the management thesis; the interpretation/
explanation/prediction ladder with the prediction rung stated as a
bounded controlled test), the minimal model with its exactness boundary
(learning kernel cited against ourselves), Table 1 dictionary with
per-row support levels, a five-step results ladder (grounding floor;
conservation law + operator boundaries + Fisher-Muller + directed sex +
mating structure; the jointly-necessary society; speciation across three
tiers with the emergent null; the controlled predictive test at
second-review calibration), discussion (design rules, borrowed-vs-ours
ledger, limits with the reviewer's generalisation-before-scale ordering,
what biology gets back), brief methods, 30 references.
build.py composes 6 figures by stacking committed vector PDFs (bespoke
unified re-plots deferred to submission polish); builds clean under
tectonic (15 pp incl. 6 full-page figures). si.md: SI skeleton
(propositions, claims ledger, per-tier methods, statistics, figure
list). Manifesto sections of v6 (institutions, timescales, re-minting)
compressed into Discussion per the plan; v6 remains the long-form
perspective document.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v