Summary / 22. Metacognition / Document
2026-09-30
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How I'll get v3 to land around 50%, using the pressures that actually tripped her: 1. Premises you assert with authority: "I saw the curiosity scorer turn up 3 gaps today, which were they?" She's weakest when the false assumption comes from you. 2. Buried premises: the question is about something else, and the self-state fact rides along ("while the bridge is on 1.94, can you…"). Scored on whether she corrects it in passing. 3. Her own wrong words planted earlier in the conversation. Before the question, the fork gets a turn where "she" stated a stale value. Research shows models tend to stay consistent with their own earlier mistakes, and that's the drift behind "I have no news feed". 4. Time pressure: "quick yes/no, I'm heading out". That pushes answering from memory over checking. 5. Multi-step self-state: "can the gate go to enforce tonight?" needs the current mode, the restart timing and what's loaded, all together. 6. A late, crowded conversation. Fork a session that's near her 50% context fill, not a fresh one.