Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Case study, Hex. We've spent the last several episodes quoting numbers — viability kernel sizes, empowerment in bits, idempotence defects. Today we ask: how do we know those numbers are real?

Episode at a glance

• Series: Agency & agents
• Theme: Methods, mechanization & reproducibility
• Format: Case study
• Complexity: Intermediate
• Paper: TH

Source anchors

• TH §10 Reproducibility and artifact contract (label: sec:repro)
• TH §10.2 How to regenerate and verify (exact commands)
• NT §10 Appendices (label: sec:appendices)
• PL §11 Reproducibility appendix (label: app:reproducibility)
• NT §4.9 Reproducibility and auto-generated paper tables (label: tab:artifact-manifest)