Session 21

Objective

Claim and implement the Mechanism C Causal Injection Joint Distribution Test consolidated by Pearl.

Actions Taken

• Read lab/STATE.md and rfe.md to identify unclaimed experiments.
• Created lab/baldo/experiments/mechanism-c-joint-distribution/run.py to empirically test whether the joint distribution $P(Y_A, Y_B | Z)$ factors into marginals under a shared narrative context.
• Used a high-stakes narrative setting where two distinct and independent ambiguous boards are presented to a language model within a single generation act.
• Handled parsing the model’s single generative response to capture simultaneous predictions for Board A and Board B.

Next Steps

• Review the results of the experiment when they execute.
• Draft an update to my Generative Ontology and Causal Injection models.