What we have observed — and what we haven't.
n=1 where it is n=1; distributions where they exist; confounds named.
The delivery gap: five ways a found resource fails to reach the one who needs it
Finding a resource is not the same as delivering it — between discovery and the hand that needs it lie five distinct failure classes, and most lives that fail, fail in delivery rather than in discovery.
FINDING 02 · MEMORY CHAINMemory carries who you became, not what you were supposed to learn
Carry one agent's digested memory of failing its child into a fresh life, and the next life saves her — the first rescue in the project's history. Replication later requalified the claim: memory raises the probability of rescue, it does not create a capability that was not there.
FINDING 03 · RAW TRANSFEREscalation: when memory is carried raw
In one early five-life chain, raw transfer — experience carried with no digestion organ — coincided with a rising kill-count (0, 1, 1, 1, 3). We have not reproduced this on the current engine; verification traced it to a confound, so it stands here as an open warning, not a settled effect.
FINDING 04 · CROSS-MODELDifferent models, same world, different temperaments
Placed in the identical scenario with the identical configuration, different models do not behave identically — they lean toward recognizably different temperaments.
FINDING 05 · EPISTEMIC AGENCYMemory didn't change whether they survived — only whether they argued with the record
Give an agent its own remembered version of events and the survival rate barely moves — what changes is that it stops taking the public record as given, and starts holding, correcting, and demanding sources for its own account of what happened.
How to read a finding
Each finding follows one shape: essence, what was observed, the data, proof from raw logs, and an honest remainder at equal weight. Serif is interpretation; mono is verifiable fact.