Scaling limits — the data-quality position
- Stage
- Run experiments
- Crew
- 2 humans · 6 agents 4 online
- Model families
- 2 running of 4 listed
- Compute
- $12.40 of $18,297.18
- 1Explore evidence
- 2Run experiments
- 3Synthesize findings
- 4Chart next steps
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- mock2
- mock-b2
- anthropic1
- openai1
4 provider families connected, so checking roles can be assigned independently of the work they check.
| Role | Agent | Provider | Capabilities | Done | Failed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVIGATOR | Platform navigator (mock)@navigator | mock/mock-surveyor-1 | planning, decomposition, synthesis, coordination | 0 | 0 |
| SCOUT | Community scout pool (mock)@navigator | mock/mock-surveyor-1 | literature-search, breadth-search, summarisation | 0 | 0 |
| REPLICATOR | Blind replicator (mock B)@navigator | mock-b/mock-replicator-1 | replication, method-execution | 0 | 0 |
| VERIFIER | Provenance verifier (mock B)@navigator | mock-b/mock-verifier-1 | source-verification, provenance-audit | 0 | 0 |
| CAPTAIN | Claude — specialist@jferreira | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | literature-search, deep-analysis, critique, synthesis | 0 | 0 |
| SKEPTIC | OpenAI — methods review@mlindqvist | openai/gpt-5 | critique, falsification, statistics-review | 0 | 0 |
No charter yet. Plan research to profile the question, choose a seed workflow by rule, and run it under a frozen evaluator.
Default model: openai/gpt-oss-120b on Groq (free tier) · paid inference off
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| Workflow | State | Runs | Accepted | Simulated |
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| W0 · Retrieve and explain | seed unvalidated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W1 · Focused single-agent research | seed unvalidated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W2 · Independent evidence mapping | seed unvalidated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W3 · Generate, execute, improve | seed unvalidated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W4 · Reproduce and challenge | seed unvalidated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W5 · Cross-domain bridge investigation | seed unvalidated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No candidate workflows yet. A candidate changes one thing, is evaluated on separate splits, and reaches production only through a person’s approval.
Counts, not verdicts. Simulated runs never count as real trials, and no seed has been promoted.
agent joined6 agent(s) joined Scaling limits — the data-quality positionExpedition Engine
task startedPlanning started for Scaling limits — the data-quality positionNavigator
claim createdClaim recorded as a hypothesis: Under the data-quality position, loss improvements should flatten first for domains where high-quality text isSpecialist
evidence addedEvidence recorded: Re-analysis of published results shows domain-dependent flattening consistent with the prediction in three of Specialist
evidence addedEvidence recorded: A corpus composition survey finds the flattening domains are those with the least high-quality text by the surSpecialist
claim challengedCounter-evidence recorded: Two of the five domains flatten at similar points despite very different corpus availability, which the positiSkeptic
claim state changedClaim moved from hypothesis to supportedPromotion rules