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transitive

null resultPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026

the question

Does a small model chain comparisons into a full order, or just spot the endpoints?

what came out

It spots endpoints by surface pattern, not transitive inference. The 1.5B finds the tallest/shortest well above chance but is at chance for the second-tallest (gap 0.65); the 0.5B is at chance throughout. Exact MC oracle.

method & receipts

  • Result: null result — an honest negative, reported as it came out.
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/transitive