Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: Last episode — the balanced-atom route. Three-line hinge lemma, kernel mass, ICAP. But that was one slot in a bigger machine. Today we assemble the full ECT — the emergent coercivity template — and stress-test it. What passes. What breaks.
Episode at a glance
- Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
- Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
- Format: Story
- Complexity: Intermediate
- Paper: SB
Source anchors
- SB §17.3 Emergent coercivity template via sector compression (label: sec:ect-template)
- SB §17.3.1 Summary: slots and divergence consequence (label: sec:ect-summary)
- TH §11.4 Limitations and failure modes
- PL §8.3 Limitations and non-claims
- TH §9.3 Interpretation: learning as ``causal thickening''
