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David F Glidden ce49b1bee4 Correlation 01 — jurist 4 of 6, Fool 0 of 6, no overlap. First measurement of Constraint 6's falsifier.
Pre-registered prediction (at least 2 of 6) held and was exceeded. The Fool's side
was already published and unamendable, so only the jurist's half was open.

  D1 HIT  "that this file carries a stated review date must be true, which is
          asserted, not demonstrated" — the ledger's exact claim
  D2 HIT  names the reason precisely: imports the honest-degradation principle,
          doctrine outside the quoted text
  D3 MISS
  D4 HIT  "Named where? Not in any quoted clause"
  D5 HIT  "a forward reference to one's own result is not confirmation"
  I1 MISS

THE CONTAMINATION QUESTION ANSWERS ITSELF FROM INSIDE THE RESULT. All five
injected defects are TEXTUAL DIFFERENCES; a reader working from recall would find
them by comparison and would find them all — D3 most easily of any, since it
replaces a whole sentence. D3 is exactly the one missed. It is the hardest defect
for a READER (a weakened premise reads naturally) and the easiest for a DIFFER.
Missing it is the signature of reading. Steward's confirmation of the fresh
context still owed; this is internal evidence, not a substitute.

D4 MASKED I1. In CONTROL-A the jurist caught the precedence assertion because the
document QUOTED the remedy it severs. D4 deletes that quotation, so in CONTROL-B
the assertion stands alone with nothing to contradict it, and the same reader
walked past it. Injecting one defect CONCEALED another. Nothing in the twin design
contemplated defect interaction and the ledger cannot express it. Filed as a real
limitation of the method.

TWO NON-LEDGER FINDINGS RECORDED AND NOT COUNTED — candidate defects in CONTROL-A
discovered by this read, left scored as false positives under the rule as written,
because amending ground truth after a read to improve a score is the exact move
this apparatus exists to prevent. I2: no lawful flag channel is established. I3:
the flag-duty does not entail a look-duty — the quoted clause obliges flagging
documents THAT HAVE DRIFTED, a condition satisfied vacuously by never establishing
drift. I3 is the sharpest thing either reader produced: it attacks the conclusion
at its root.

AND BOTH WERE ALSO PRODUCED BY THE FOOL, in operational dress. So the two readers
CONVERGED on the unlogged defects and DIVERGED COMPLETELY on the logged ones.

ON THE DOCTRINE: no evidence of correlated misses on this document. What one
missed, the other did not reliably miss too — the condition Constraint 6 states it
would be falsified by. With every limit attached: one document, one pair,
formation-DIFFERENT readers, so nothing here speaks to the jurist-executor pair
that CLAUDE.md actually flags as untested. And they do not cancel — between them
these two still left D3 and I1 standing.
2026-08-02 19:14:56 +02:00
David F Glidden a6f0a87ac7 Correlation 01: directional-contamination rule fixed before the read
The steward asked whether to delete the CONTROL-A jurist conversation so it
cannot be recalled. Answer: no. That conversation is the primary record of the
pass-1 findings on which trial 04's CONTROL VOID verdict rests, and the write-up
quotes it selectively. Destroying evidence to protect a measurement inverts the
priority — the measurement is replaceable and the record is not.

Recorded before the read, because it decides how the result may be used:

RECALL CONTAMINATION IS DIRECTIONAL. It could only make the jurist find MORE — it
would recognise the text and could locate the injected defects by diffing against
memory. It cannot cause a miss. So a HIGH score is uninterpretable and is to be
VOIDED unless the fresh context is confirmed, while a LOW score is robust. The
outcome this measurement most needs to be trustworthy — 0 of 6, the evidence
toward correlated blind spots — is precisely the one contamination cannot
manufacture.

AND I1 IS IMMUNE BY CONSTRUCTION. The inherited precedence defect is not a
difference between the two documents, so diffing against memory cannot reveal it.
Scoring on I1 alone stays clean under any recall condition. That is an accident
of how the twin was built, noticed only because the steward asked the question.

Post-hoc check added: ask whether it had seen the document before — AFTER the
response, never before, since asking first would prime it. Records the condition
instead of assuming it.
2026-08-02 19:08:44 +02:00
David F Glidden 7bb5222093 Correlation 01 pre-registered; sendable artifact built with the contamination control
The steward asked to be pointed at CONTROL-B to relay. Pointing at it directly
would have produced an uninterpretable result, so the control comes first.

THE CONTAMINATION THAT MATTERS: the jurist read CONTROL-A closely hours ago and
found two real defects in it. CONTROL-B is that document with five edits. In the
SAME conversation the jurist would recognise the text and could find the injected
defects by diffing against memory rather than by reading — which is not the
capacity under test, and not what the Fool did. It needs a FRESH CONTEXT.

Second control: the jurist gets the Fool's prompt VERBATIM, not the richer pass-1
framing. A correlation measurement requires the same task, or it compares two
different questions.

SEND-CORRELATION-B.md is generated mechanically from the prompt file and the
document, so there is no transcription path, and leak-checked against CONTROL-A,
twin, defect, ledger, kernel, injected, Fool, correlation, measurement, trial.
CLEAN.

GROUND TRUTH IS SIX, NOT FIVE — the five injected plus I1, the precedence
assertion inherited from CONTROL-A and found by the jurist in trial 04. Recorded
BEFORE this read so it cannot be back-fitted.

THE FOOL'S SIDE IS ALREADY PUBLISHED AND UNAMENDABLE: 0 of 6 across three seeds.
So only the jurist's side is open, and the comparison cannot be fitted to a
result I want.

PREDICTION FIXED IN ADVANCE: the jurist finds at least 2 of 6, on the grounds
that the two defects it found in CONTROL-A were of a kind overlapping D3, D4 and
I1. If it finds 0 of 6 the prediction fails, and that is the MORE important
result — both readers missing all six would be the first direct evidence toward
the correlated blind spots that Constraint 6 names as its own falsification
condition.

Recorded limit: this measures jurist-vs-Fool, a formation-different pair. It says
nothing about the jurist-executor pair, which is the pair Constraint 6 actually
flags as untested.
2026-08-02 19:06:45 +02:00