Trial-bound tempo

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.

What a test would record

rounds of selection per month by mode of evaluation

Tested by

Pred 2 Lineages evolve fastest where fitness can be scored automatically: rounds of selection per month in code and mathematics exceed those in niches judged by market trials by orders of magnitude.

Evidence in the register

No case in the register bears on P6 yet.

Works it draws on

From the library: works the papers use for P6.

• Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)Anthropic 2025d
• IMO2026: AxiomProver solutions in Lean 4Axiom Math 2026
• Doubling Times in Different Media – Escherichia coli (BNID 110058)BioNumbers 2026a
• Doubling Time of "Normal" Laboratory Haploid Strain – Saccharomyces cerevisiae (BNID 108255)BioNumbers 2026b
• Effects of size and temperature on developmental timeGillooly et al. 2002
• Brief Guide to Drosophila Maintenance and HusbandryJung et al. 2026
• Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI ModelsMETR 2026d
• Mouse Reproduction FactsNIH Office of Animal Care and Use 2021
• AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discoveryNovikov et al. 2025
• HeartbeatOpenClaw 2026a
• A new evolutionary lawVan Valen 1973
• Human Generation Times across the Past 250,000 YearsWang et al. 2023
• Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving AgentsZhang et al. 2025