closed-loop/loop.json
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{
"title": "The Loop Eats Its Own Input",
"author": "Chadwick Warner",
"rev": "03",
"homepage": "https://chadwick-warner.4ort.net/",
"film": "https://4ort.mov/@chadwick_warner",
"tags": ["model collapse", "feedback loop", "tolerance", "machine shop", "render farm", "predictive policing"],
"grounding": [
{"concept": "model collapse", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123403903", "definition": "degradation whereby a generative model's own output re-enters training and the distribution narrows"}
],
"worked_example": {
"print_od": "0.8000 +0 / -0.0008",
"first_article": "0.8001",
"drift": "uniform -0.00005 per part",
"failed_at_part": 10,
"final_od": "0.7994",
"status": "scrapped run",
"note": "failure invisible because verification referenced the last pass, not the bare metal"
},
"thesis": "A closed feedback loop cannot audit itself; it reports its own prior belief. The remedy is an independent outside reference that the loop cannot overwrite.",
"across_shops": [
{"shop": "machine", "reenters": "last measurement", "drift": "bearing wear toward scrapped run"},
{"shop": "render farm", "reenters": "own frames as reference normals", "drift": "about half a stop per generation"},
{"shop": "patrol map", "reenters": "self-produced arrests", "drift": "hot spot thickens around where you already looked"}
]
}