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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