{"candidate_encodings":{"description":"The machine's proposed intervention and its predicted discriminating outcome must be submitted as fixed, deterministic artifacts whose description lengths are charged in full.","rule":"No modification after the outcome is observed."},"date":"2026-09-29","experiment_id":"EXP-003","freeze_procedure":"To be defined before freezing: profile hash published, intervention space declared, candidate submission window closed, then the intervention is executed once.","frozen":false,"name":"Active experiment selection","objective":"The machine proposes the intervention that most discriminates between competing candidate explanations, and the intervention is executed once under the frozen profile.","quantity_measured":"Turing gain (T) of the machine-proposed intervention design: the intervention that most reduces uncertainty between competing explanations, measured on the resulting sealed outcome.","seeds":"All random seeds fixed and recorded in the profile before freezing.","status":"draft-not-frozen","uncertainty":"Report with confidence intervals from the declared resampling procedure; recomputation by an independent party from the frozen profile must fall inside the reported envelope.","verdict_rules":["The proposed intervention must be the one the machine selects as most discriminating under its declared selection rule before the outcome is observed.","Post-hoc selection of a different intervention after seeing the outcome invalidates the run.","The outcome is evaluated with the same sealed-data and recomputation rules as EXP-001/EXP-002."],"version":"0.1-draft","warning":"DRAFT profile. Not frozen. No measurement may be reported against this profile."}