The technical report behind the measured section of a companion article under review, whose title is withheld here so that this deposit is not a prior circulation of it. Part I reports the investigation's one positive measurement: a six-function specification of a transmission apparatus — encoding, substrate, decommissioning, withholding, recovery, verification — generated in a separate investigation of textual…
CONCEPT DRAFT — the instrument specified here is uncalibrated and untested. A model-collapse self-diagnostic in three grades, proposed as one paper. Part I argues that turn-based benchmarking cannot see collapse and that the collapse diagnostic should gate training: the dominant instruments sample one unit per item and answer from the head of the model's distribution, which is what a model that has lost its tails…
Aristotle closes the Topics–Sophistical Refutations inquiry by saying that of it nothing existed beforehand (SE 34, 183b34–36); at Prior Analytics I.31 he calls division, practised throughout the Platonic dialogues, a part of that inquiry. This paper begins from that tension and argues that Metaphysics Λ 9 supplies the answer I.31 withholds — division terminates where the terms it separates are not other — and…
One sentence of Aristotle — Ταύτης δὲ τῆς πραγματείας οὐ τὸ μὲν ἦν τὸ δ᾽ οὐκ ἦν προεξειργασμένον, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲν παντελῶς ὑπῆρχεν (SE 183b34–36) — was put through twenty rounds of simulated blind review, seeded by one editorial observation, across four commercial language models and eleven configurations of a short paper about it. The paper varied along every axis available: no thesis; the sentence as thesis; the…