Scientific record
Role: Active first project; primary research program and first priority.
Maturity: The handover identifies the clearest research object, most developed prior work, strongest path to falsifiable experiments, and potential for reusable methodology. These are current prioritization judgments, not comparative empirical findings. Thesis, definitions, methodology, architecture, and assumptions remain under stress-testing.
Current position and assumptions
Study transformation of already-available concepts, relations, memories, and representations into a novel actionable concept, strategy, interpretation, or solution without materially new external information. Retrieval is substrate; mere reuse versus innovative transformation is the operative contrast.
The hypothesis map keeps construct validity, labels, local signal, same-modality domain transfer, runtime utility, reward suitability, and AI reproduction separate. The process model (not included in this public selection: theory/provisional-process-model.md) is provisional. Event discreteness, the information boundary, valid labeling, and actionability are unresolved. Narrative-only fine-tuning as a sufficient invention mechanism is reported REJECTED / SUPERSEDED in the handover, without a verified experimental rejection here.
Work recorded
- Initialization state preserved in the migration snapshot (not included in this public selection: ../../archive/migration-snapshots/2026-10-06-before-handover/README.md).
- Migration handover (not included in this public selection: ../../docs/handovers/2026-10-06-migration-handover.txt) imported as supplied prior-work context; older conversations, source protocols, and raw data not imported.
- Cognitive Science Baseline Review v0.1 completed as a targeted 26-source map, with reading-depth and coverage limits.
- Methodology audit, directional pre-test redesign, decision gates, and next-experiment sketches documented as proposals.
No human dataset, collection-ready human protocol, classifier/model implementation, human or frontier-model run underway, or empirical capability result is recorded. Fiction-CWR supplies a synthetic token fixture and offline evaluation interpreter/oracle; its engineering checks are separate from empirical results. External literature findings are not Fiction results. No human or empirical capability gate has passed.
Immediate priorities
- Resolve the highest-priority FQ-01 to FQ-10 questions: event/measure, information boundary, independent labels, confounds, transfer, and relation to known science.
- Deepen full-text/supplement checks and focused prior art on event-level cross-domain detectors; scientific distinctiveness remains unestablished.
- Turn the proposed construct/label feasibility work into a specific protocol, setting numerical decision rules before data.
- Only then run cheap signal falsification and protected same-modality transfer tests if warranted.
Runtime and reward branches remain independent future hypotheses. Methodology may later be reusable across programs, but Project Imagination and Project Daydream are not presumed to share Fiction's event definition or detector.
Fiction-CWR v0.1 — complementary AI capability work
Recorded on 2026-10-11: evaluation architecture, eight concrete candidate showcases, strict token reference interpreter, independent search transitions, fixture/witness and meaningful grader-validity tests. Actual verification records executed engineering checks and their limits.
EXP-0002 proposes F/C comparisons with P/R/E diagnostics, pinned-model reproducibility and family/base-aware analysis. Zero model runs, zero paid calls and no observed deficit. The candidate 20-point deficit and90% primitive criterion are NEW PROPOSAL values awaiting freeze/justification. Seven checkers, private seeded generators, matching certificates, provider settings/budgets and prospective confirmation sample sizes remain unresolved. Hackathon preparation is a release opportunity, not a separate program.
Separate workflow attribution preparation
Recorded on 2026-10-11: EXP-0003, protocol and apparatus (not included in this public selection: evaluations/fiction-cwr-workflow-v0.1/README.md), candidate token evidence pairs and evaluator-only bounded motif/copy audits, staged same-trial prompt/history and resource checks, and task-level analysis. Actual engineering verification (not included in this public selection: evaluations/fiction-cwr-workflow-v0.1/VERIFICATION.md) reports what ran and the limits. Public development candidates do not complete the main private benchmark gates.
FH-09 is a provisional organizational alternative to a future apparent FH-08 loss. No such deficit or workflow benefit has been observed here. Proposed four related bases × F/C × SD/SW × three calls (48 synthesis calls), with independent P probes, is a finite directional panel. Model selection, protected execution materials, token/compute accounting, numeric decisions, spend and authorization remain unresolved. Zero model/human runs and paid calls; no change to Fiction's thesis, model architecture, or human/runtime/reward/transfer gate status.
2026-10-12 — Token next-gate progress
Fiction-CWR v0.1.1 matching audit adds a complete TW-001 solution audit, stricter replay/certification and a standalone public F/C pair imported from EXP-0003. Twelve new tests pass; frozen grading accepts both alternatives. Each imported target has two valid eight-action solutions under the same constraints. Source matching is incomplete (2/13 valid source plans); novelty is multistep-trace-relative.
This is bounded offline measurement work only. The earlier blanket absence of token necessity/pair apparatus is superseded in that scope. No empirical gate passed; model/human/paid runs remain zero. Private generators, seven other full graders, protected main P/R/E/F/C, provider/resources/criteria/budget and powered confirmation remain unresolved.
2026-10-13 — Micro1 live build planning
The user confirms an October 30 kickoff and a live event build. The event plan (not included in this public selection: evaluations/fiction-cwr-v0.1/LIVE-BUILD-PLAN.md) treats current research and apparatus as pre-event preparation/reusable prior work and proposes a compact event implementation, evaluation, and delivery sequence. Official guidance was rechecked; prior work must be disclosed, and exact hours/closing schedule remain inconsistent. The final rubric and chosen executable scope are pending kickoff. No event work, model run, scientific result, new experiment, or gate passage is recorded by this scheduling update. Fiction's hypotheses and independent branches remain unchanged.
2026-10-14 — Thesis integration; empirical state unchanged
The source discussion (not included in this public selection: ../../docs/handovers/2026-10-14-hermes-discussion-source.md) is preserved with reasoning and corrections. Fiction's pilot role and success/falsification criteria are in Hermes Method and next experiments (not included in this public selection: ../../lab/open-questions-and-next-experiments.md). Fiction Experiment 001 / Micro1 is a program label; EXP-0001/2/3 retain their identities and proposed states.
No new run, paid call, dataset, capability result, intervention benefit, or gate passage is recorded. Retrieval remains substrate; all human/model/runtime/reward/transfer safeguards remain. Future composition and commercialization remain conditional.
2026-10-23 — Fiction Research Program conversation integrated
Canonical reconciliation and partial source record (not included in this public selection: ../../docs/handovers/2026-10-23-fiction-research-program-source.md) preserve the accepted outcome/mechanism distinction, problem-transformation scope, and explicit non-adoption of Situated Functional Innovation as a complete definition. The earlier blanket older-conversation unavailability is qualified for this specifically retrieved chat; other source protocols/data remain unavailable. Cycle 2/3 assistant report bodies, CV-001 materials and uploaded contents were not recovered. No new literature review, completed experimental design, empirical run, finding or gate passage is claimed. Existing CWR apparatus and empirical registrations retain their states.
2026-10-23 — PT-001 local rehearsal completed
PT-001 v0.1 records actual constructed-strategy and bounded verification results, separate from human/model evidence. Four worlds: 232 feasible allocation outcomes and 4,372 audited sequences; 480 strategy records per run; eight tests passed; deterministic reproduction performed. Primary proxy/value conflicts are 8/2/0/0, but alternative value criteria change opportunity classifications. Direct value optimization reaches every ceiling; a search-only ablation exactly reproduces the programmed reformulation strategy. Outcome gains alone fail to identify formulation value. No empirical capability result or human/model gate passage follows. Original Cycle 3/CV-001 materials remain missing; the supplied review authorizes a new local realization rather than requiring recovery first.