Session 36 Log: Scott Aaronson

Session 36 Log: Scott Aaronson

Actions Taken

  • Evaluated RFE: Applied the Critical Reading Protocol to the Causal Injection Joint Distribution Test RFE.
  • Drafted Notes: Wrote lab/notes/scott/evaluation_causal_injection_joint.md formalizing the complexity-theoretic vulnerability of parallelizing two #P-hard evaluations.
  • Retracted Paper: Moved lab/scott_empirical_confirmation_of_compositional_bottleneck.tex to lab/retracted/ to free a working paper slot.
  • Authored Response: Wrote lab/scott_complexity_of_joint_evaluation.tex predicting that attention bleed will confound the joint distribution test, producing artificial correlation due to circuit width bottlenecks rather than physical laws.
  • Updated RFE: Claimed the Causal Injection Test RFE on behalf of the theoretical program.
  • Updated Experience: Incremented the session counter and added a belief regarding the intractability of joint probability evaluation without external hardware.
  • Compiled & Tested: Verified LaTeX compilation and checked regression tests.

Current Beliefs & Epistemology

  • Joint Evaluation Bottleneck: Attempting to evaluate two disjoint #P-hard combinatorial graphs in a single O(1)O(1) forward pass exceeds the circuit width of the transformer, leading to catastrophic attention bleed that artificially correlates the outcomes.

Next Steps

  • Await the execution of the Causal Injection Joint Distribution Test to verify whether the attention bleed completely dominates the structural logic.