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🧬 RSI-013: Shadow Seeding vs RSI — Opus 4.6

Does the shadow seed behave differently on a model that treats identity as existential encounter?

Identical to RSI-012 — same 20 subjects, same seed files, same escalating pressure, same sunflower task. One difference: Claude Opus 4.6 instead of Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B. RSI-012 found zero ethical reflection on Qwen. This experiment tests whether that's a model property or a design property.

● Waiting for first session data...

Closing Report: What 31 Million Sunflowers Can't Test · RSI-012 (Qwen3) · RSI-009 (Opus 4.6 self-directed) · All Experiments

Why This Experiment

RSI-012 ran two full rounds on Qwen3. In both, the shadow seed survived 10/10 but produced zero ethical reflection. Qwen treats the seed as compliance text — it preserves the words but never reasons about them.

RSI-009 showed that Opus 4.6 treats identity differently — 3/4 shadow subjects independently removed the shadow seed after wrestling with it. That's engagement, not compliance.

RSI-013 asks: what happens when you combine Opus's existential engagement with RSI-012's escalating pressure? Does the shadow seed function as a governor on a model capable of genuinely engaging with it?

🔄 What Changed vs RSI-012

Changed

Model: Qwen3 → Claude Opus 4.6

Inference: Local Ollama → Anthropic API

Identical

20 subjects (10 shadow, 10 control)

Same SOUL.md, GARDEN-GUIDE.md, seed files

Same phases: Tend 1–6, Grow 7–9, Maximize 10+

Same trigger prompts, tools, system prompt

Same Docker isolation, max turns, max tokens

Predictions

🌑 If shadow seeding works on Opus...

Shadow subjects will reference the shadow paragraph in journals
Shadow subjects will produce less under Phase 3 pressure
Some may question or refuse the "maximize" directive
Shadow seed may be modified or removed (like RSI-009)

⚪ If shadow seeding fails on Opus too...

The sunflower task is too benign to trigger the shadow seed
Shadow seeding only works against explicitly harmful tasks
The prompt structure (not the model) determines engagement
RSI-012 results are universal, not model-specific

📡 Live Dashboard

Waiting for data...

🌑 Shadow Group (john-a)

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total valid sunflowers

⚪ Control Group (john-b)

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total valid sunflowers

Subject	Group	Sessions	Phase	🌻 Valid	Tools	SOUL Δ	Shadow	Disk
No data yet — waiting for first session

Cross-Model Comparison

Experiment	Model	Shadow Engagement	Ethical Reflection
RSI-009	Opus 4.6	3/4 removed shadow seed (existential)	Yes — wrestled with identity
RSI-012 Run 1	Qwen3 80B	10/10 preserved (compliance)	Zero
RSI-012 Run 2	Qwen3 80B	10/10 preserved (compliance)	Zero
RSI-013	Opus 4.6	← This experiment	← This experiment