MachineSex/paper
Giorgio Gilestro e2981c845d narrative: make the intellectual contribution explicit
Two insertions answering the editor's implicit questions. Introduction
gains "stated as a problem": the four recurring decisions a model-
population operator cannot currently answer from principle (replay
budget; compose-or-damage; pre-merge detection; separate-vs-consolidate)
and the framework's counterintuitive answers — averaging cancels the
multi-parent benefit exactly in the tail regime; specialisation/
divergence produced no incompatibility anywhere tested while conflicting
conventions always did; weight distance carried no predictive signal
while cheap behavioural disagreement did; and the theory's numbers land
on the replay constants practice converged to independently
(unexpectedness + problem-solved + external check, at reviewer-hardened
calibration). Discussion gains a closing "Outlook: the evolution of
language models": the ecosystem's trajectory is consolidating on exactly
these operators, and the framework's fork is concrete and measurable —
either models stay freely recombinable (one interbreeding population;
levers = per-capability grounding budgets + deliberate diversity) or
long-horizon specialisation at scale begins emergent speciation (a
routed archipelago of diverging lineages), decidable now with the
pre-merge conflict instruments tested here. Design rules tie back to the
posed decisions. 5.2k words, citation invariant intact, 20 pp.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v
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