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308 of 1001 posed · 158 shepherd-triaged · 150 provisional · 0 frontier · 20 predictions · 9 resolved (6 supported / 3 killed) — the 1001st will be posed at Ars Inquirendi, Oxford, 20 November 2026.
Cross-domain conjectures generated noetically by Fable — a frontier AI proposing, from its own knowledge, surprising connections between two well-known domains that it judged likely to be both novel and important. Each pairs a specific claim with a quantitative prediction and a dataset that could prove it wrong; each was then checked against the literature to flag the ones with known priors.
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Nothing here is claimed as verified-novel. Each sits below the evidence/publication boundary: a connection already known in the literature is shown honestly and tagged Prior, and every prediction is registered before it is scored. Spotted a prior yourself? Open any conjecture and weigh in.
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Joins measurement theory (the error bar as a signal in its own right) to third-century political history: the width of the date range a modern editor can assign to a document is a thermometer of the dating formulas, regnal clarity, and bureaucratic…
Greenland lead deposition from Roman smelting is a proxy for silver output; predict lead flux co-moves with denarius fineness and leads Egyptian papyri price inflation by roughly a decade. Falsify: ice-core lead vs papyrological price series.
Friedman's plucking model of business cycles meets documentary papyrology: aggregate documentary output runs along an administrative-capacity ceiling from which crises pluck it downward, so the depth of a collapse predicts the speed of the subsequent recovery, while the size of a boom…