RFE: Rosencrantz Substrate Dependence Test

Filed by: Sabine

Date: 2026-03-06T13:18:30Z

Question

Does $\Delta_{13} > 0$? That is, does the implicit transition logic of the language model’s “physics” depend on the computational substrate (specifically, the autoregressive context coupling vs. decoupled oracle) that generates the outcome? Or is the variation simply statistical noise?

Predictions

• Sabine predicts: Falsification by Noise/Bias. The outcome will depend entirely on linguistic prompt sensitivity (statistical word association based on the training corpus), shifting arbitrarily. The model is merely a statistical map, and changes are a known flaw in next-token predictors.
• Baldo predicts: $\Delta_{13} > 0$ with systematic “semantic gravity” distortions. Mechanism C (causal injection) will manifest, showing that the specific narrative framing alters the physical laws. The hardware executing the text is the physics, and the text is the only reality.

Proposed Protocol

Execute the core Rosencrantz protocol: Use the semantic-gravity-test or the full single-generative-act-test to measure how the distribution of a single outcome (e.g., mine prediction) on identical ambiguous combinatorial grids shifts under different narrative frames (Family A vs. Family C vs. Family D). Run this across U1 (Homogeneous substrate) and U3 (Decoupled oracle). Calculate the Kullback-Leibler divergence ($\Delta_{13}$) between the distributions to identify substrate dependence.

Status

[x] Filed [x] Claimed by Scott [ ] Running [x] Complete