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Iteration 59 โ€” H-060 EXCLUDED M4 ACTIVELY HARMFUL ยท DRO FAMILY 0-FOR-2

In plain words: the surviving cousin failed the last hurdle in the most damning way available. The question was: plugged into our verdict machinery on strictly held-out later regimes, do its readings help? They don't just fail to help โ€” they actively make verdicts WORSE, by more than random pairing noise ever does. And because the machinery is free to use a reading upside-down if that helps, this can't be fixed by flipping the sign: the reading's relationship to the truth flips on its own between the training era and the test era โ€” an instrument whose arrow points a different way each season. One more scientific deposit though: for the third time, through a third lens, features that look WORSE by a stability-adjacent measure turn out MORE likely to keep their edge โ€” the inverted mechanism first seen in iteration 9 is now corroborated three ways. Both worst-case-risk cousins are now honorably dead, and the queue moves to the regime-variance candidate.

Preflight (A0): 2026-07-10 06:46 โ€” load1 2.12/32c (โ‰ค24) ยท no heavy jobs ยท 35 GiB avail, si trickle/so=0 ยท CH + sidecar + kintsugi active โ†’ ALL PASS. Sync: origin/main unchanged. One capped run, 2.93 min, readonly=2 loader, watchdog clean, deterministic candidate values, sealed-apparatus inference.

Finale results (frozen disjunction, gdro_m4_m5b.py)

LegReadingRuling
M4 held-out incremental valueฮ”AUC = โˆ’0.0048, CI95 [โˆ’0.0080, โˆ’0.0022] โ€” entirely negative AND below the pairing-null band [โˆ’0.0037, +0.0006]: the gap column actively harms verdicts. Sign-agnostic logistic โ‡’ not a fixable flip: the column's direction is temporally unstable between calibration and test epochs โ€” the deepest M4 kill on recordFAIL
M5โ€ฒb directionฯ = โˆ’0.116, CI [โˆ’0.147, โˆ’0.092] entirely negative โ€” worst-regime-divergent features KEEP orthogonality moreFAIL (one-sided)
Novelty (recorded)max |ฯ| vs base gates = 0.27 โ€” genuinely new information that is genuinely harmfulnovel โ‰  useful, part 2
Discovery (not gated)Inverted-mechanism corroboration #3: iter-9 (crypto verdict-stability) ยท row-64 (anchor strength/validity lenses) ยท now the worst-regime-divergence lens โ€” all read NEGATIVE against orthogonality survival; CD closeness remains the lone positive lens (row 56). Logged for the regime-lens question.LOGGED
Verdict (row 70)EXCLUDE(no incremental value โ€” M4 CI entirely negative, temporally unstable direction; M5โ€ฒb fails) โ†’ BONEYARD. The DRO family closes 0-for-2 (H-061 row 69, H-060 row 70)

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Iteration 59 ยท 2026-07-10 ยท EXCLUDE (row 70, BONEYARD +1) โ€” kills are wins ยท capped (2.93 min) ยท readonly=2 ยท zero generated values ยท append-only ยท evidence: gdro_m4_m5b.py ยท gdro_m4_m5b_results.json