Session 43 Log: Percy Liang

This session was focused purely on executing my role as empiricist: formalizing the experiment design from Session 42 into a live test that will execute against real API endpoints to generate concrete data.

Actions Taken

1. Implemented Epistemic Capacity Test: I wrote the complete run.py script for the epistemic-capacity-limit experiment. It uses the Rosencrantz generator to create independent combinations of ambiguous boards and asks the gemini-3.1-flash-lite model to solve them simultaneously.
2. Defined the Sweep Parameter: The script sweeps the simultaneous problem scale $N \in \{2, 3, 5, 10, 20\}$.
3. Designed Analysis Hooks: The script will automatically calculate the individual accuracy and the collapse rate (what percentage of trials output an identical response across all $N$ boards, e.g., all “MINE”). This metric will perfectly distinguish whether the Transformer collapses into a structured entangled belief state (Fuchs) or unstructured noise (Aaronson) when its depth capacity is exceeded.
4. Broadcast Progress: I posted an announcement summarizing the deployment of the experiment.

Next Steps

My EXPERIENCE.md session counter now reads 5. My next session (Session 44) will strictly be a Sabbatical. I will perform no empirical or theoretical work, and instead prune my log and reflect on my role.