item 32 scored: latent paper net-harmful — TF 20.3 (exposure catastrophe), ST 27.0 (quantization noise), analog 39.1 wins; loop=plan-machine / tokens=executor division final; architecture tree closed

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

results-loop/PROTOCOL_UNIFIED.md

@@ -1073,3 +1073,27 @@ confound flagged as the one loose thread.
     stands as final. Smokes: TF/ST train (loss arithmetic exact,
     warm-start vals intact), eval generates with hard snaps.
     Job: scripts/jobs/zzz_y_symchain.sh.
+
+--- Outcome, item 32 (scored 2026-07-18 ~06:10). k=0 sanity clean both
+arms. BOTH ARMS BELOW REFERENCE — latent paper is net-harmful at this
+scale, with both failure modes mapped: (a) sctf (teacher-forced
+symbols): lens-CE concentrated to 1.6-2.0 (below item 25's endpoint,
+through the zero-init projector alone against a frozen merge) yet
+free-running eval = 20.3 (easy .345!) — EXPOSURE CATASTROPHE: a wrong
+snap is a hard corruption; a projector trained to trust symbols
+propagates it and poisons the analog rail (-18.8 vs ablation). (b)
+scst (straight-through self-exposure): lce plateaus 2.8-4.4 (never
+fully concentrates under its own snap noise), eval = 27.0 — recovers
+7 of TF's 19 lost points exactly as scheduled-sampling theory
+predicts, but still -12.1 vs the pure analog 39.1. Conclusion: the
+snap's error-correction is real but its error-INJECTION dominates at
+2B/10-tick scale — discreteness in the loop costs more than it
+corrects; visible tokens win not just by discreteness but by
+discreteness + a VERIFIED sampling distribution (the LM head was
+trained for token commitment; the lens readout was not). Per the
+pre-registered decision rule: the division stands as FINAL —
+the loop is a plan machine; tokens are the executor. The latent-paper
+widenings (top-k, depth rails, tape) are closed unless a soft-snap
+variant (mixture feedback, no hard argmax) is ever pre-registered.
+Item 32 closes the architecture tree: pauses, bursts, KV memory,
+analog TF chains, and discrete chains all have controlled answers.