MachineSex/configs/inheritance/figS11_directed_recombination.yaml
Giorgio Gilestro ab3dc10587 Restructure: descriptive tier and experiment names, paper/manuscript
- paper/pnas -> paper/manuscript (venue-neutral)
- configs/layer1 -> configs/inheritance, src/knowledge -> src/inheritance
  (imported as `inheritance`), make layer1 -> make inheritance; layer2 alias dropped
- inheritance and trained-network bundles named after the manuscript figure
  they feed (fig2_grounding_sweep, figS3_rebaselining, ...), or descriptively
  where they feed none; configs keep their `experiment:` value so parquet
  hashes are unchanged, only output.dir moves
- figure scripts, SI figure sources, notebooks, REPRODUCING.md, README and the
  SI Methods/tables updated; make clean no longer deletes tracked manifests;
  reproduce.sh hashes the s{seed}/ layouts too

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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experiment: E10
kind: directed_sex
seed: 20260705
n_replicates: 24
# (Directed sex beats biological sex — the distinctly-AI superpower): on rugged landscapes, blind
# ("biological") sex suffers outbreeding depression (offspring worse than parents). But an AI can do
# what biology cannot: choose maximally-complementary mates, evaluate MANY recombinant offspring, and
# keep only the fittest, over several rounds (directed sex = iterated recombine-then-select, with no
# two-parent limit). Compare, across ruggedness K: best single parent vs RANDOM sex (blind) vs
# DIRECTED sex. Expect: random sex craters with ruggedness; directed sex avoids the catastrophe and
# matches or exceeds the best parent even when skills are entangled. Falsifier: directed sex does no
# better than random sex, or never recovers the best-parent level on rugged landscapes.
society:
L: 12
n_parents: 6
pop: 200 # offspring evaluated per round (mate choice + offspring selection)
keep: 8 # fittest offspring retained each round
rounds: 5 # rounds of recombine-then-select
rate: 0.2 # directed-sex recombination rate (random-sex uses free rate 0.5)
sweep:
- param: K
values: [2, 4, 6, 8, 10] # landscape ruggedness (all with parent diversity)
output: {dir: results/figS11_directed_recombination}