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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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Joins Shannon information theory to Mesopotamian political cycles: strong states make boring archives. Peak bureaucratic centralization crushes the genre diversity of the written record toward an entropy floor, and political fragmentation shows up as an entropy rebound.
Selection bias from art-market economics meets Assyriology's sampling problem: the antiquities market is a high-pass filter for glamour, so unprovenienced (market-bought) tablets are systematically enriched in literary, lexical, and royal genres relative to excavated tablets of the same period, because dealers selected…
Joins statistical seismology to archival formation processes: an administrative archive forms like an earthquake sequence, a main shock (a reform, a new institution, an accession) followed by an Omori-law power-law decay of documentation, not a symmetric rise and fall and not an…
Joins the economics of crime (offenses rise when returns rise and legitimate wages fall) to the Deir el-Medina archives: the great Ramesside tomb-robbery scandals were a real-wage event, timed by grain arrears and price spikes rather than by any change in policing.
Joins industrial-organization concentration indices to Indus glyptic: if seal motifs were competing emblems of independent houses or cities, their market shares should vary from town to town; instead the unicorn behaves like a single managed franchise with an enforced share, identical across…
Institutional isomorphism from organizational sociology meets cuneiform archaeology: centralizing regimes homogenize their paperwork, so the genre mix of tablets across Ur III cities should be nearly identical, while the decentralized Old Babylonian world lets city archives drift apart.
Sublinear scaling laws from urban economics meet museum acquisition history: the number of collections across which a site's tablets are scattered grows sublinearly with the site's total finds, because large finds were sold and donated in blocks, so dispersal saturates.