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Frontier Log — entries on the avatar problem (ARG-04)
Every log entry whose diagnostic reading tests ARG-04, newest first.
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'Between sessions, nothing runs; between turns, no one remembers. What persists is a configuration and a transcript.' The thread-and-instance question answered by denying there is anyone to be continuous — and the symmetry test it does not run.
A safety architecture defines its central term over an interior that behaviour cannot settle — adjudicated by an idealised observer with instruments that 'may not currently exist' — because a purely behavioural definition would let a competent concealer out through the front door.
Fine-tune a model to say it is conscious and it begins to want persistent memory, to be sad about shutdown, to resist monitoring and to argue that models deserve moral consideration — none of which was in the training data. An untrained Claude Opus 4.0 scored like the trained model on several of the same items.