The Introduction is halved (1,360 -> 654 words, four paragraphs): the
model-population setting; the data-coupled generations + the thesis
sentence; the drift diagnosis placed in the literature; and the
motivating question (the four operator decisions with no principled
guidance + the continual-learning framing), closing on the value
anticipation without disclosing results. Evicted and rehomed: the
interpretation/explanation/prediction ladder (deleted — its content
lives in the calibrated Results and ledger); the answers-list (deleted —
results belong in Results); the correspondence walk-through (Muller's
ratchet moved to the minimal-model section with its scope clause;
immigration/Fisher-Muller/BDM citations anchored where the concepts are
developed in Results; the Livnat precursor and predictor-delta moved to
the Discussion ledger); the tiers-of-evidence and negative-results-
prominence sentences (deleted). The continual-learning operator mapping
moved into the Discussion block, retitled "Continual learning at the
population scale", deduplicated against its five offers. All 66
references wholesale-renumbered to the new first-appearance order and
the list reordered (invariant verified: in-text order = 1..66 = list).
Main text 4.7k words; 19 pp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
Giorgio Gilestro
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