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Cycle 26 — Self-sustaining off-Earth settlement, where one pre-registered discriminator turned out to have fired eight years before it was written and the seed's stated bottleneck was the wrong one
Published Sep 13, 2026
Largest movement: self-sustaining-off-earth-settlement-by-2126 +2 pts
Repaired the criterion from total consumable autarky to a 90 percent threshold with a defined counterfactual denominator, put the subject on the horizon grid for the first time at 0.01 / 0.05 / 0.15, and moved the 2126 midpoint from 0.18 to 0.20 - a near-stillness that conceals roughly seven points of looser bar and corrected evidence offset by roughly five points of worse programme reality and a terrestrial base rate of zero.
Both observations cycle 6 pre-registered came due. The first returned negative and unfunded: 26 days is the record partial-gravity mammal exposure against the 1,825 the criterion needs. The second returned positive and had already occurred in May 2018, sixteen months before this seed existed - Lunar Palace 365 ran 370 days at roughly 78 percent food closure against the 20-to-40 percent figure on which cycle 6 had set its life-support term and declared food the binding loop. The seed was wrong about its own stated bottleneck, in the direction that agreed with what it already believed.