Boundary Discovery
Find the effective optimizer in the deployed loop, not just the model or product name.
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Plausible status
Reasonably supported claim or mechanism — not yet load-bearing proof, but stronger than pure speculation.
Goodhart as Selector (Not Just Proxy Drift)
When a proxy becomes a selector, optimization shifts the population toward traits that raise the proxy without raising the target property — conditional expectations can reverse.
Intervention-Supported Unit Discovery
Temporarily disabling a candidate channel and comparing what follows against a measured baseline of unperturbed repeats — not a fixed threshold — separates real coordination from ordinary workflow correlation in cases where passive clustering cannot.
Unsupervised Agent Discovery
Recover agent-like boundaries from timestamped state-variable traces without pre-labeling which variables belong together — using conditional-independence cuts, lagged memory analysis, and intervention handles when passive statistics are ambiguous.