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Frontier Log — entries on the three movements (FWK-02)
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Which expert fired in layer seventeen has a true answer, and a model can be trained to give it. The paper gives that channel a borrowed bodily name and refuses to call it introspection — and giving a model verifiable self-access leaves what it says about its own experience where it was.
Seven papers in three weeks give the self-report instrument the distinction it lacked — a report that matches behaviour against a report that shares a cause with it — and find, by steering, by demonstration-shift, by circuit, by transcript and by probe, that the information is in the model and not in the report.
A direction that separates pain from fear, sadness and generic negativity in 25 open-weight models, fires for harm to the model and not for a suffering user, and — once the trained denial is fine-tuned away — buys relief at a cost and stops buying when the relief is real. The animal-welfare paradigm imported whole, sham control included; what it cannot import is the step from behaviour to anyone's pain.
A peer-reviewed paper classifies LLM expressions of emotion or sentience as hallucinations by definition — while its closing concession states the verification limit from the deflationary side.