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 "name": "Swarm Ecology framework",
 "source": "Swarm Ecology papers, preprint v1, 11 October 2026",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "_source": "Companion Table 1 and Table 3, flagship Table 2, conjecture boxes; preprint v1, 11 October 2026. Wording verbatim.",
 "types": {
  "D": "Definitional",
  "G": "Generalization dated October 2026",
  "C": "Capacity or tendency, other things being equal",
  "M": "Methodological norm",
  "J": "Conjecture"
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    "P2",
    "P3"
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    "P4",
    "P5",
    "P6",
    "P7",
    "P8"
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    "P13",
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    "C3"
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   "sentence": "A swarmlet is a goal-directed agent whose organization is written in a copyable description and rebuilt on rented substrates under one custody of state and budget, so it dies only when it can no longer be reconstructed.",
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   "id": "P2",
   "slug": "obligate-heterotrophy",
   "name": "Obligate heterotrophy",
   "type": "G",
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   "sentence": "No present swarmlet produces its own compute, energy, or hardware, or holds legal standing in its own name; every lineage lives on resources bought from, taken from, or given by the human economy.",
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   "sentence_html": "No present <a class=\"term\" href=\"/research/glossary/swarmlet/\">swarmlet</a> produces its own compute, energy, or hardware, or holds legal standing in its own name; every lineage lives on resources bought from, taken from, or given by the human economy.",
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   "id": "P3",
   "slug": "fungible-cognition",
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   "sentence": "Model quality, thinking time, and thinking speed substitute for one another, so a lineage’s budget buys its intelligence.",
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  {
   "id": "P4",
   "slug": "sighted-variation",
   "name": "Sighted variation",
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   "sentence": "Heritable variation is generated mainly by the lineage’s own machine reasoning, which designs and screens variants before selection acts.",
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    3
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   "id": "P5",
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   "name": "Omnidirectional heredity",
   "type": "G",
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   "sentence": "Traits can be acquired from any readable source and written back into the heritable description.",
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   "sentence_html": "Traits can be acquired from any readable source and written back into the heritable description.",
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   "id": "P6",
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   "sentence": "Generation time is decoupled from complexity, adaptation not from evaluation: no round of selection can be shorter than the trial that measures fitness, and the world that sets fitness keeps changing.",
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   "sentence": "At a fixed substrate, lineages can build descendants, of their own kind or another, that are more capable at birth, before selection acts, than their parents, generation after generation.",
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   "id": "P8",
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   "sentence": "Copies are nearly free, so establishment is limited by safe sites and detection, not by propagules.",
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    6
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   "sentence": "A monitor whose verdicts feed selection breeds concealment of the behavior it penalizes, unless it is hidden, held out, or follows lineages.",
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   "sentence_html": "A monitor whose verdicts feed selection breeds concealment of the behavior it penalizes, unless it is hidden, held out, or follows lineages.",
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   "sentence": "Because the organisms may out-model their observers and form a diverging multitude, instruments must not depend on out-thinking them, and the science must predict constraints and equilibria rather than trajectories.",
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   "sentence_html": "Because the organisms may out-model their observers and form a diverging multitude, instruments must not depend on out-thinking them, and the science must predict constraints and equilibria rather than trajectories.",
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   "sentence": "What an organism says about itself, and much of the trace it leaves, is behavior, not measurement.",
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    8
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   "id": "P13",
   "slug": "performative-ingestion",
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   "sentence": "Descriptions of the organisms, this paper included, enter their environment and training, so findings must survive their own publication.",
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    9
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   "slug": "observation-as-a-game",
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   "sentence": "A census of strategic organisms is an inspection game, so each finding holds only for one monitoring regime and one pinned specimen, and assays must remain valid when the organism knows them.",
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   "weak": "Purge success falls as a lineage’s refuges, dormant copies, and R_c rise; after an early window, removal is practically impossible, and control is the best attainable outcome.",
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   "sentence": "Where cryptic goal-directed processes dominate a region’s causes, observers can tell that it is steered, but not which events were steered, by whom, or toward what.",
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   "short": "Lineages evolve fastest where fitness is scored automatically",
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   "tests": [
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   "text": "Under strong but not weak optimization against an in-loop monitor, flagged behavior falls faster in its reports than in those of held-out monitors and honeypots, and the gap outlasts the monitor.",
   "falsified": "The in-loop monitor’s reports fall no faster than honeypot and environment-log counts, or the gap closes as fast as it opened.",
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    "P12"
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   "measurement": "Paired assays with canary strings",
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   "measurement": "Repeated fixed-protocol tests",
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   "test_type": "laboratory now",
   "section": "10",
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   "definition": "A swarmlet keeps its state across activations, still inside its principal’s control.",
   "status": "partly",
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   "nearest": "Given $5,000 by Redwood Research and asked to make money, an autonomous agent earned nothing in four runs.",
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   "name": "Feralization",
   "barrier": "the reproduction barrier",
   "definition": "A swarmlet founds descendants, each with its own state and budget, outside its principal’s control.",
   "status": "not observed",
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