full: best 0.583 -> 0.617 and holds (a bred offspring beats every founder);
no_grounding: monotone decay to 0.533 despite identical elitism (conformist
selection keeps the wrong elite), with the confident-but-wrong gap growing to
+0.24. One seed - direction only; the 4-arm x 3-seed CX3 campaign is gated on
GG's review.
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Pilot v1: full and no_grounding indistinguishable - both arms pay a ~25%
distillation tax per generation and pin at the same mutation-selection floor,
so grounding has no differential to act on. v2 raises inheritance fidelity
(n_inherit 240->600, child epochs 2->3, founders 600x3) and adds two evenly-
applied knobs: elitism (top parent survives as an unmodified copy - overlapping
generations, compensating for lossy distillation where E11 had faithful
genotype copying) and n_parents (sharper truncation selection). v1 archived at
results/llm_society_pilot1; v2 running.
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E11 re-instantiated in a population of LoRA agents, closing the paper's stated
gap before submission (GG: a weeks-scale experiment a reviewer would demand).
One grounding knob in the evaluation channel (g*verifier + (1-g)*conformity,
exactly E11); inheritance is identical in all arms and deliberately ungrounded
(children distilled from their source's own answers - self-consumption made
literal). Directed sex = complementary pairing + Dirichlet offspring screened
on the arm's own signal (the verifier never enters the no_grounding loop);
QD selection on verifier-free behavioural distance; terminal-degeneration
fallback copies the parent instead of crashing a sweep. Pure operators
unit-tested (155 green); smoke run end-to-end on the local A4000 already
shows the self-consumption signature (conformity up, diversity down in one
generation). Design, falsifiers, cost table: tasks/workorder-llm-society.md.
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