From the conversation

  • A short post plus a whole website current Samuel's 2026-09-07 proposal to publish a short post backed by a choose-your-own-adventure site, the ten-page map that came back, and the case for per-trait pages.
  • David Africa's review of the blog page current The five-point review David Africa gave on 2026-09-02, what each point asked for, what was done, and where each stands on 2026-09-07.
  • Decisions log current Every decision Samuel made in chat that shaped the project, dated, with the transcript file and line it was made in.
  • Do the recovered factors map onto the Big Five? current Three of the five factors recover cleanly; Extraversion and Emotional Stability come out as withdrawal and arousal, a roughly 45-degree rotation of the same plane.
  • How to read the elbow (scree) figure current What a scree elbow is, why the project stopped using one, and how to read the three-curve figure that replaced it.
  • Index of Samuel's questions about the science current Every user turn across the thirteen session transcripts that asks a question about the science rather than giving an instruction, dated, with where the answer now lives.
  • Stage one versus stage two adapters, clarified current Which population each geometry result is measured on - the 134 zoo adapters have both OCT stages, but the control arms and almost every published number are stage-one only.
  • The double-centred Gram matrix, and how the PCA was actually done current Why the PCA of 134 adapters runs through a 134 x 134 matrix of inner products, what double centring is, and why the factor-analysis panel is a different matrix.
  • The most interesting claims, ranked current The 2026-09-07 ranking of the project's five strongest claims and three weak ones, plus the follow-up on exactly what the seed experiment holds constant.
  • The seed paragraph was too long current Samuel's "this feels like a weird amount of depth for a small point?" on the opening seed passage, and what was cut from it.
  • Three blog post skeletons current The three bullet-pointed outlines produced on 2026-09-04 when Samuel decided to rewrite the blog post by hand, with the pending items resolved.
  • Where the traits came from, and why it had to be said current Samuel's 2026-09-05 objection that the post gave no provenance for the 134 words, the answer that 100 are Goldberg markers and 34 are random lexicon draws, and the check that the two sets can be analysed together.