Per GG's directive: (1) the model-societies premise is no longer asserted — the Introduction opens with the verified evidence base (3M-model ecosystem with phylogenetic lineage-mapping literature, >98%-synthetic alignment pipelines, machine-generated web share, the human-data ceiling, mainstream merging tooling, agent economies; refs 31-44, all identifiers verified by the literature scan). (2) The findings are contextualised in CONTINUAL LEARNING, where they land hardest: a new Introduction block maps the CL canon onto the operators — replay <-> grounding, with the field's measured replay fractions (1%/5%/25%) sitting on our theorized g*~0.05; pseudo-rehearsal/generative replay as precisely our ungrounded null; parameter isolation; CLS consolidation; merging-for-CL vs cross-lineage recombination; tail-first forgetting <-> tail-allele extinction; CF-vs-collapse mechanism distinction kept explicit — plus a Discussion block with five CL impact points (replay- ratio theory testable against published sweeps; a failure theory for generative replay; pre-merge interference prediction with a mechanism; a consolidate-vs-modular decision rule; tail monitoring, engaging the latent-vs-extinct objection). The scan verified the bridge is open: no prior work carries pop-gen formalism into CL. (3) Downplaying replaced by convergence framing: the diagnosis was reached independently and is corroborated by parallel arrivals (Riis; Benati; Yoon; and Crutchfield & Whalen 2012, pre-deep-learning) — cited for priority of publication, the full arc owned as one framework. References 30 -> 65; Significance carries the CL frame; 20-pp rebuild; 151 tests green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
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