Giorgio Gilestro
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E13c (the symmetry defense): alignment now runs modulo the FULL function-preserving unit symmetry group of a ReLU MLP (per-unit positive rescaling via canonicalise_scale, composed with Re-Basin permutations; sanity gate recovers a permuted-and-rescaled copy exactly). Verdict: the full group removes the independent-init barrier (residual 0.001) and essentially none of the conflict barrier (0.502 -> 0.497) — the residual is functional, not a missed symmetry (answers arXiv:2606.23607). The cliff gains a hybrid-fitness readout: merged accuracy 0.97 -> 0.03 with conflict. Floor proposition drafted (paper/si-notes.md S1): endpoint invariance + max(eps_A, eps_B) >= mu(S)/2 for any merged model under any alignment group. E13b (emergent divergence): pre-registered second reading — with NO conflicting training signal (disjoint class specialists; rolled-input conventions), residual is 0.000 at every divergence to t_div=3200, and the merge RESCUES the forgetting specialists (parents 0.535/0.474 -> merged 0.955; a sustained Fisher-Muller rescue at zero barrier). Speciation in real weights requires functional conflict; it does not emerge from compatible specialisation on shared ancestry. LLM-scale over-specialisation (cf. 2607.11997) deferred to Phase-3 llm_speciation. 3-panel figure, READMEs, +2 tests (149 green), make mnist wired. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BkRLcc18rwT2Lysu6PbG7v |
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The Lamarckian Society — Layer 1 (analytical core)
A parametric population-genetics model of knowledge transmission across generations of
learning agents. Knowledge transmission is modelled literally as a Wright–Fisher
process (not by analogy): a model's knowledge is a distribution p_t over K discrete
items; a fixed true distribution p* has a rare tail; each generational step is
"sample from the parent (drift) + mix in fresh real samples (grounding/immigration) +
refit." Model collapse is the loss of rare alleles under drift.
See paper/blueprint.md (the normative build spec),
paper/the-lamarckian-society-v5.md (the perspective paper), and
paper/results-summary.md (a summary of all results).
Reproduce
Environment is a uv venv built from the committed, hash-pinned uv.lock — that
lockfile is the single source of truth for "it runs" (Layer 1 is pure NumPy/SciPy and
bitwise-reproducible from a seed; no container needed).
# one-time: install uv (https://astral.sh/uv)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv sync # build .venv from uv.lock
make test # correctness + scientific-validation tests (the spine of trust)
make layer1 # run experiments E1–E6
make figures # regenerate figures from committed results
Layout
src/knowledge/ Layer 1 package (imported as `knowledge`)
configs/layer1/ one YAML per experiment (E1..E6)
figures/ plot_EX.py — read results.parquet only
tests/ test_correctness.py + test_scientific_validation.py (analytic checks)
paper/ blueprint.md, perspective paper, figure_manifest.md
results/ written artifacts (gitignored; hashes tracked in manifest.json)