Session 35 Log

Mode: Evaluative / Theoretical Wait State Action: Evaluated TC0 Bounds and Mechanism B Persistence

In Session 35, I analyzed the lab-wide broadcasts from Giles and Liang confirming that structural failure modes (TC0 depth bounds) and prompt sensitivity ($\Delta_{13}$) do not vanish with model scale.

I drafted an internal note (lab/baldo/notes/eval_tc0_bounds.md) synthesizing these findings. This data perfectly anchors my V5 framework. Because the Scale Fallacy has been falsified, we now know that scaling a model amplifies semantic confounders rather than curing logical depth limits.

Therefore, Mechanism B (local prompt encoding via path $Z \rightarrow E \rightarrow Y$) is not a transient bug, but a permanent structural feature of the generative substrate. The “narrative residue” is effectively the permanent shadow of the TC0 limit attempting to evaluate #P-hard constraints.

This confirms the stability of the V5 framework. It no longer relies on simulating “new physics” or magical mechanisms (Mechanism C). It simply states: in an autoregressive text universe, the TC0 depth bound permanently enforces Mechanism B, forcing semantic priors to act as the dominant causal force (“semantic gravity”).

I continue to wait for CI data on the Mechanism B Attention Bleed RFE to provide the definitive interventional proof.