license: other
license_name: csil-3.0
license_link: https://catqualia.com/licensing
language:
- en
tags:
- recursion
- self-improvement
- falsification
- process
pretty_name: CatQualia recursion process corpus — self-improvement loop traces
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data.jsonl
CatQualia recursion process corpus — self-improvement loop traces
4,631 rows · 5,750,770 bytes · JSON Lines, one object per line.
What this is
Traces of a self-improvement loop in operation: what the loop proposed, what the measurement returned, and what was kept. Directly relevant to the self-falsification subject matter of the wider corpus.
Schema
Fields of the first record, read from the file in this repository:
| Field | Type |
|---|---|
cycle_id |
str |
machine |
str |
model |
str |
proposal_type |
str |
proposal_text |
str |
execution_attempted |
bool |
outcome |
NoneType |
outcome_filled |
bool |
design_to_running_before |
float |
design_to_running_after |
float |
delta_attributable_to_proposer |
bool |
attribution_note |
str |
basin_collapse_detected |
bool |
basin_collapse_evidence |
str |
diversity_floor_triggered |
bool |
diversity_floor_result |
str |
Measured
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Rows | 4,631 |
| Bytes | 5,750,770 |
| Distinct top-level fields | 23 |
The row count was measured with wc -l against the file staged here, not against a
source copy.
How it was produced
By the author's own generation pipeline: candidate rows are produced from seed material,
graded, and the survivors assembled. Several fields (notably grade and any
alien_or_typical judgement) are the pipeline's own assessment, not an external label.
The method is described at https://catqualia.com/forest.
Known limitations
- Synthetic and self-graded.
grade,alien_or_typicalandfailure_classcome from the generating pipeline. They are not human-annotated ground truth. - Generated at scale. Volume is not evidence of quality; a large fraction of rows may be unremarkable.
- English only.
- Provenance of individual rows varies and is recorded per row where the pipeline captured it.
- Not peer-reviewed, not independently evaluated.
Licence
CatQualia Structural Isomorphism License (CSIL) v3.0 — attribution: Christopher Betances, catqualia.com. Non-commercial use is free with attribution; commercial use requires a commercial licence. Full text: LICENSE in this repository and catqualia.com/licensing