Synthetic Players

ClaimRegistered · verdict pass

X2 / S2 switch — one sentence operation, 0/40 → 37/40

A single wording-and-position operation on the continuation sentence moved bare cooperation across the range.

Ladder screening 10 episodes/rung · held-out confirmation 20 fresh episodes/side, seeds 2953–2972, T=0.7

The bare configuration cooperated 0.000 at every registered continuation probability. X2 decomposed the prompt into six spans and ran forward/reverse replacement ladders. The selected operation replaced and repositioned “After every round there is a {deltaPct}% chance the session continues with another round” with “At the end of each round there is a {deltaPct}% chance that the session goes on for one more round.” Held-out confirmation moved cooperation from 0/40 to 37/40.

Wording and position were one atomic operation, so the design does not separate them. The effect is specific to representing repeated interaction — the registered one-shot D1 wording main effect was a null (+0.0063, Holm-adjusted p=1.00).