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CB-WP-0040: name the stratum before naming the defect
The maintainer could not tell whether "error", "failure", "finding" or
"correction" referred to the game's design, our formalisation of it, the
code, the measuring apparatus, or the sentences we wrote. Three review
rounds produced twenty-odd defect statements spanning five systems, all
called errors. The confusion was ours.

specs/Taxonomy.md, grounded in named canon rather than invented here: six
strata from Sargent's problem entity / conceptual model / computerized
model, extended where a simulation-V&V frame stops — we also own an
instrument and an account. The two relations are what was missing:
GAME<->MODEL is validation, MODEL<->ENGINE is verification, and nearly
every argument about "our bug or their gap" was that distinction going
unnamed.

Fault/error/failure from Avizienis et al., applied within a stratum, plus
the rule that explains the review history: a failure in one stratum is a
fault in the next. And it finally defines the family ADR-0018 could only
point at — a wrong-subject error is an ACCOUNT failure with no INSTRUMENT
fault, which is why tests never catch them.

MDA supplies the game-facing layers and one hard limit: our panels measure
dynamics, our trial logs sample aesthetics, and a win rate does not answer
"is it fun".

specs/Positioning.md names the field fairly — Ludii is the closest
relative and the right benchmark — and the four differentiators, each
already built rather than aspired to. Clay-borg is a design-evidence
instrument; anyone can produce the number. Three tracks named and none
started: a second game, game theory as the lens on dynamics, and
assimilated knowledge about why games work.

Track A is the falsifier for the whole positioning: every abstraction here
has exactly one instance, which by our own rule may mean invented rather
than observed.

Chaos window 3 closes at 12 declarations with one override that changed
nothing. Its verdict is due and is deliberately not written here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 11:41:16 +02:00

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# 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 | — |
| 12 | CB-WP-0040 | d8 = 5 | — |
**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
had one qualifying override, and it changed nothing.
**Window 3 is closed at 12 declarations. Its verdict is due and is not
written here** — recording it is a change to how the loop constrains its
own operation, which is a tier-M trigger in its own right, and window 2's
verdict was delayed the same way. **One override in twelve, changing
nothing**, is the second consecutive window to produce no override that
changed an outcome; ADR-0017 D2's retirement condition asks for exactly
that in two consecutive windows and should now be evaluated rather than
restated.
**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.