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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE-163 | Identifying how governing rules are maintained from diagnostic probes: a predictor fitted under reciprocal production fails under self-dependent production with histories matched, an audit pulse with a short producer interruption identifies which of four known mechanisms applies and predicts withheld interventions, and fitting decay and threshold as well helps after the parameters shift and hurts at nominal ones, within a known catalog and with every probe run on a counterfactual reset | Versions 2.0 to 2.2 of the Perspective Population Lab, dmarx/PerspectiveLab@9f82bfd, on the maintained population of CASE-161. v2.0 shows that a response model does not transport across a change of production law that ordinary histories do not reveal. v2.1 and v2.2 infer the mechanism, and then its parameters, from probes, and predict interventions never probed. Everything is relative to a catalog of four known mechanisms whose equations the forecaster is given, and every probe is a separate branch from the same starting state. | Proposed |
| CASE-164 | A 192-state organization on which one kernel gives several closure verdicts: the description by agents and phase is informationally closed on the intact support and fails global strong lumpability, its deficiency for the next pair of rule integrities under a declared intervention mixture is 0.55·H₂(1/3) ≈ 0.5051 bits and zero once the maintenance mode is kept, and finite-sample predictive gains misread both a positive and a zero information defect | v1.8 of the Perspective Population Lab, dmarx/PerspectiveLab@7e2edc2: a finite organization small enough to enumerate, on which the senses of closure of TERM-068 are computed exactly side by side. The maintenance mode plays CASE-125’s hidden bit: the intact dynamics are the same in every mode, and five of six interventions part them. v1.9, at @9f82bfd, calibrates finite-sample predictive gains against the exact values. It recombines distinctions the record already holds and claims no new theorem. | Proposed |
| CASE-165 v4 | A dynamic beta–Bernoulli latent-feature model of an organization’s members: a finite Indian buffet prior over who holds which interpretive features, a sticky logistic transition for holding them, activations, and team, communication and authorization layers above; at the proposed size of sixteen features it falls well short of the Indian buffet process it quotes, its persistence term does not hold rare features, and the difference between having a capacity and using it is not identified from the outputs | The owner’s T22 (“maybe we could benefit from a restaurant process model, like an indian buffet model”), developed at T23 (“flesh out our proposed generating probability model further”) into a full generative specification for the Northstar firm, and carried to transformer training at T24. It is the candidate method of QUESTION-276 in its most worked-out form. Its facts are its definition, and four of them are not what T23 says: at K = 16 the prior expects 6.83 features, not αH₁₂ = 9.31; a held rare feature is kept with probability 0.16 a day; and having, using and splitting features are confounded in the reconstruction. It shows what such a model would have to get right before its features could count for anything. | Proposed |
| CASE-166 | Northstar as a multilevel simulation: twelve employees with fixed frames in four departments form overlapping working groups that keep records and can receive delegated authority; as reported, a working group with delegated authority ties a conventional router given the same information and authority, nearly all of its advantage over departmental silos comes from fast authorization, and keeping the incident team’s records through a commander handoff improves the company’s estimate of its own state about eightfold while barely changing what it does | The owner’s idea at T18 of the exchange “Experimental Infrastructure Review”: “maybe employees are “pre-perspectives” or sub-perspectives, which can reorganize amongst themselves to form the perspectives that influence the higher level organizational behavior”. T19 designed it and T20 reported running it as “PerspectiveLab v2.11 — Northstar”. It is Northstar (CASE-023) with CASE-134’s handoff as one arm, and it adds the contrast CASE-134 lacks: the team’s records kept or erased. The page carries no files and the lab holds no v2.10 or v2.11, so every number is reported, not reproduced. Not shown: that any organizational perspective emerged, which T20 itself denies. | Proposed |
| CASE-167 v2 | The nitroplast: UCYN-A, a streamlined nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium in a marine alga, whose division is coupled to the host’s and which imports host-encoded proteins, reclassified as an early-stage organelle in 2024 | Candidatus Atelocyanobacterium thalassa (UCYN-A), a metabolically streamlined nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium known as an endosymbiont of a marine alga, is integrated into the alga’s cell architecture and organellar division and imports proteins encoded by the algal genome. Coale et al. call it an early-stage organelle, the nitroplast (LIT-1562). Used as the case where the line between endosymbiont and organelle is drawn by stated criteria. | Proposed |
| CASE-168 v2 | Monocercomonoides: a eukaryote that lost its mitochondrion entirely after the organelle’s essential jobs were removed in steps, its Fe–S cluster assembly taken over by a bacterial-type SUF system that its relatives share and its glycine cleavage system lost, and kept canonical eukaryotic complexity | The oxymonad Monocercomonoides lacks all hallmark mitochondrial proteins; its mitochondrial iron–sulfur cluster pathway was replaced by a cytosolic SUF system taken from bacteria, and the loss was secondary (LIT-1567). Its genome otherwise shows canonical eukaryotic complexity (LIT-1574). Used as the negative control: loss of function dissolving an integrated compartment, not deepening dependence on it. | Proposed |
| CASE-171 v3 | Mealybugs, Tremblaya and Moranella: a bacterium inside a bacterium inside an insect, amino-acid pathways patched together from three genomes and genes transferred from other bacteria, and an inner symbiont replaced several times while the transferred genes stayed | In the mealybug Planococcus citri, Moranella lives inside Tremblaya. Essential amino-acid pathways need gene products from both bacteria and the insect (LIT-1565). At least 22 genes the insect acquired from other bacteria, none from Tremblaya, fill symbiont gaps (LIT-1569), and the inner symbiont has been replaced several times across mealybugs while those genes persisted (LIT-1572). Used as the case where function is distributed across nested boundaries and constituent lineages turn over. | Proposed |
| CASE-173 v3 | Aphids and Buchnera: an obligate nutritional symbiosis in which neither partner reproduces alone, and the symbiont’s genome reduced to a seventh of E. coli’s | Buchnera lives in aphid bacteriocytes and is passed from mother to egg. Its 641-kb genome keeps the pathways for the amino acids its host needs and has lost most else (LIT-1596); its genes evolve fast and A+T-biased under Muller’s ratchet (LIT-1573). The record’s reading of Wilson and Barker reports Godfrey-Smith placing the pair as both an organism and a Darwinian individual (NOTE-114). Used as the case of high mutual dependence and high reproductive cohesion reached through reduction, with no gene transfer to the host reported in the works it rests on. | Proposed |
| CASE-174 v2 | Paulinella chromatophora: a photosynthetic organelle in the making, from an endosymbiosis independent of the plastids’, its genome reduced to about a third of its coding capacity, and hundreds of host proteins imported into it, most encoded by the host’s own genes rather than transferred from the symbiont | The amoeba Paulinella chromatophora’s chromatophores descend from a cyanobacterium taken up about 60 million years ago, independently of the plastids. Their genome kept 26% of a free-living relative’s genes and lacks essential pathways (LIT-1621). Genes transferred to the nucleus make proteins that are imported into the chromatophores (LIT-1557), and import is reviewed across systems in LIT-1560. Used as the case where host control emerges by gene transfer and import. | Proposed |
| CASE-177 v2 | Hodgkinia in cicadas: one endosymbiont splitting into two to dozens of interdependent lineages, with near-complementary gene sets, idiosyncratic fragmentation in Magicicada, and hosts transmitting up to six times as many cells to keep every lineage | In some Tettigades cicadas, the endosymbiont Hodgkinia split into two cell lineages with almost perfectly complementary gene sets, the functionality of one (LIT-1563), and it has done so at least six times in the genus (LIT-1586). In Magicicada it fragmented into twenty or more genomic circles per species (LIT-1612, LIT-1602). Hosts compensate by transmitting more cells to each egg (LIT-1590). Used as the case where dependence and the number of parts grow with no new collective function, and the host pays. | Proposed |