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Iteration 88 โ€” H-047 BY EXCLUDED by Input Invalidity KILL #28 ยท THE DISCOVERY OUTRANKS THE KILL ยท OPERATOR FLAG

In plain words: the false-discovery-control backbone died at the door โ€” but not by its own fault, and the autopsy produced the iteration's real headline. The procedure itself was verified exactly correct: every algebraic identity held, and the byte-twin's significance matched its original's to the last bit. Then the control claim went on trial with the harshest possible design: targets circularly rotated inside each regime so that every feature-target relationship is destroyed by construction โ€” every discovery in that world is false. A 5% error budget should mean false alarms in about one replicate in twenty. The result: 43% of replicates produced false discoveries (uncorrected: 62%). The culprit is upstream: the standard time-series p-values feeding the procedure understate uncertainty on data this persistent โ€” and no correction procedure can launder invalid inputs. The kill has a built-in resurrection clause: BY re-enters automatically once a valid p-value source is certified โ€” and the NEXT candidate in the queue, Romanoโ€“Wolf, is precisely a resampling-based inference that might be that source. A proportionate flag goes to the operator: certified instruments that used these p-values sat behind a far stricter threshold (99.9%) โ€” margin, not immunity.

Preflight (A0): 2026-07-10 21:47 โ€” load1 2.88/32c (steady) ยท no heavy nasimubd jobs ยท 35 GiB avail, si/soโ‰ˆ0 ยท all four services active โ†’ ALL PASS. Sync: main up-to-date, worktree 0 behind. One capped run (0.36 min), readonly=2 loader, circular shifts of real values (03c).

Exam results (by_exam.py โ€” procedure-correctness form, 124 features)

LegReadingRuling
E1 โ€” procedure identities + twinStep-up rule == brute-force set ยท BY โŠ‚ BH ยท ฮฑ-monotone ยท twin p == duration p bit-exactly (4.1ร—10โปยฒยฒ, maximally significant as it must be)PASS โ€” implementation exactly correct
E2 โ€” the control claim (THE KILL): all-true-nulls design (within-window circular shift of the target)BY at ฮฑ=0.05 rejected โ‰ฅ1 feature in 43.4% of K=99 replicates (bound: 9.4%) ยท plain BH: 61.6% โ€” the correction IS binding, and still drownsFAIL
AttributionThe rot is upstream: HAC-asymptotic p-values (derived NW lag) understate long-run variance on this persistent substrate โ€” invalid marginal inputs; no FDR procedure launders garbageINPUT INVALIDITY
E3 โ€” non-vacuity (real panel)61 BY / 71 BH rejections โ€” now revealed as partly inflated by the same mechanismPASS (caveated)
Verdict (row 99)EXCLUDE(input invalidity โ€” the declaration backbone cannot stand on anti-conservative HAC-t p-values) โ€” KILL #28, BONEYARD #43 ยท AUTO-RE-ENTRY on a certified p-source
Operator flag (proportionate): HAC-asymptotic p-values at moderate significance levels are demonstrably anti-conservative on this substrate (43% family-wise false-alarm rate at nominal 5%). Certified instruments that used HAC inference (the anchor triad, row 64) sat behind the 0.999 ฯ‡ยฒ threshold โ€” margin, not immunity. This observation deserves the operator's eye; it does not overturn any certificate on its own.

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Iteration 88 ยท 2026-07-10 ยท VERDICT (row 99) โ€” EXCLUDE ยท kill #28 ยท boneyard #43 ยท capped (0.36 min) ยท readonly=2 ยท zero generated values ยท append-only ยท evidence: by_exam.py ยท by_exam_results.json