clay-borg/specs/ChaosRollHistory.md
tegwick 0f64961d06
Some checks failed
ci / check (push) Failing after 3s
CB-WP-0039: a seat that does not regulate — and it changes H1's verdict
CB-EV-0030 concluded H1's DARVO arm rate was still 0. That was true of the
panel, and the panel was greedy-family throughout. GreedyPolicy ranks
`Ground if gated => 100`, so it grounds the instant the stress gate bites,
Stress plateaus at 3, and the arm at 5 is unreachable by construction. "H1
does nothing" was really "H1 does nothing to a seat that already manages
its Stress" — and H1 was written for the seat that does not.

`reactive` is greedy with exactly one preference changed: GROUND demoted
below ATTACK. Under it, H1's criteria 1 and 2 are MET — DARVO arms 400
times per cell, ATTACK is chosen 3 times per seat per game. Criterion 3
fails harder: reactive wins nothing at any seat count.

The larger finding is about the baseline. Greedy and reactive play
IDENTICALLY under baseline, and peak Stress across 3,200 baseline games
was 1 — against a starting value of 2. The gate at 4, the DARVO arm at 5
and the Freedom token are all unreachable, and a policy built to be
reckless with Stress is indistinguishable from one built to husband it.
That is a deeper account of F17 than F17 has. Not raised as a finding yet:
it wants the plural panel first.

A constant was investigated rather than reported: darvo was exactly 400 in
every cell while atk scaled with seats. Six-player final Stress is
[5,5,4,4,4,4] every seed — H1-B holds the attacker at 4, below the arm,
and pushes its targets to 5. The self-soothe suppresses DARVO in the
aggressor and concentrates it in the attacked. The direction follows from
H1-B's arithmetic; the number 2 is partly an artifact of reactive's
first-legal targeting, and is labelled as such.

Still unreviewed: tier L review outstanding on CB-WP-0038, and nothing
here reaches ground-game until it runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 01:08:40 +02:00

81 lines
3.7 KiB
Markdown
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

# Chaos roll — window records
One entry per chaos window. Split out of `InnerLoopReference.md` when that
file crossed the loadability limit: this is a **log that grows**, and a log
inside a reference eventually crowds out the reference.
The rule itself lives in [`InnerLoop.md`](InnerLoop.md) §Loop tiers; the
current window's terms are there. This is the history the verdicts rest on.
**Window 1** (d4, closed 2026-08-02): 12 declarations, **2 overrides**, one
each way, and **both changed the outcome**. The mechanism was kept and the
rate dropped d4 → d8 (CB-EV-0015 §5, CB-EV-0016 §4).
**Window 2** (d8, 2026-08-03 → 2026-08-07): 12 declarations, of which
**11 rolled at d8** — declaration 1 (CB-WP-0018) opened the window and
rolled at the old d4. Expected 8s: **1.375**. Observed: **1**.
| decl | pass | roll | effect |
|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | CB-WP-0018 | d4 = 3 | opened the window at the old rate |
| 2 | CB-WP-0019 | d8 = 5 | — |
| **3** | **CB-WP-0020** | **d8 = 8** | **override — drew S over a structural S: changed nothing** |
| 4 | CB-WP-0021 | d8 = 7 | — |
| 59 | CB-WP-0022…0026 | d8 = 6 ×5 | — |
| 10 | CB-WP-0027 | d8 = 7 | — |
| 11 | CB-WP-0028 | d8 = 1 | — |
| 12 | CB-WP-0029 | d8 = 4 | — |
**Verdict (ADR-0017): the rate is behaving as designed.** One override
against 1.375 expected is not a shortage of evidence.
**Why the retirement condition changed.** *"An override changes nothing
twice running"* requires a consecutive pair, each with P = 1/3, so ~12
overrides are expected before one occurs — at ~1.4 overrides per window,
**~9 windows or roughly 100 declarations**. A gate that cannot cash out on
any realistic horizon is decoration (ADR-0006 D3). It is now evaluated
**per window**, needing two consecutive qualifying windows: ~24
declarations rather than ~100.
**Four evidence files claimed window 2 produced zero overrides.** They were
wrong, and each cited the one before rather than counting. See F23 —
the failure is a claim with no source, asserted once and repeated, which
no gate here detects.
**A post-hoc observation, deliberately not acted on.** Declarations 59
rolled six five times running (~1 in 370 for some run of five in eleven
rolls). `shuf` was tested over 200 rapid successive calls and looks
uniform, longest run three. Recorded so a future window can check whether
it recurs; not evidence of anything on its own.
---
## Window 3 — opened 2026-08-07 at d8, running to 12 declarations
| # | pass | roll | override |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CB-WP-0030 | d8 = 7 | — |
| 2 | CB-WP-0031 | d8 = 2 | — |
| 3 | CB-WP-0032 | d8 = 6 | — |
| 4 | CB-WP-0033 | d8 = 7 | — |
| 5 | CB-WP-0034 | d8 = 4 | — |
| 6 | CB-WP-0035 | d8 = 4 | — |
| 7 | CB-WP-0036 (first declaration) | d8 = 7 | — |
| 8 | CB-WP-0036 (re-declared L→M) | d8 = 7 | — |
| 9 | CB-WP-0037 | d8 = 1 | — |
| 10 | CB-WP-0038 | **d8 = 8** | **yes — redraw L, structural was L, so it changed nothing** |
| 11 | CB-WP-0039 | d8 = 2 | — |
**The window's first 8, at declaration 10.** Expectation over ten rolls at
d8 is 1.25; one is exactly on rate.
**The override changed nothing**, which is the observation ADR-0017 D2's
retirement condition is built from — it needs *a full window whose
overrides all change nothing*, in two consecutive windows. This window now
has one qualifying override and **one declaration left to run**.
**Declaration 8 is a re-declaration of the same workplan**, counted
separately because it was a materially different pass: CB-WP-0036 was
re-scoped from L to M after the maintainer moved the animation work out of
the repo, and a changed declaration is a new declaration or the roll is
not binding on what was actually built.