Evidence & experimental registry
Escalation thesis: computational performance is evidence, not physical truth; prospective claims require preregistered independent experiment.
Artifact 17.07.26 · escalation · synthetic validation only
Expanded bullets
- Oracle ladder: cheap computational checks → higher-fidelity oracles → retrospective → prospective independent experiment.
- Registry freezes candidate, prediction, protocol, endpoints, controls, replicate IDs, safety scope, release policy, and six signed roles before outcomes.
- Failures, cancellations, exclusions, negatives, control failures, and deviations are retained.
- Large raw artifacts stream into verified one-MiB content-addressed chunks; append-only reality-gap updates.
- Witness protocol has local two-key simulation only; no external witness enrolled.