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One Thousand and One Conjectures

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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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Subject Texts, scribes & transmission 95 Money & economy 31 Art & iconography 30 Literature & poetics 30 Philosophy, theology & the schools 30 Engineering, materials & building 21 Networks & trade 19 Institutions, law & bureaucracy 12 Time, sky & calendars 9 Water, land & settlement 8 Chance & decision 7 Logistics & operations 7 Navigation & discovery 4 Sound & performance 3 Conflict & collapse 2
Place Mesopotamia 15 Egypt 20 Levant & Near East 24 Aegean & Greece 28 Rome & Italy 24 Mediterranean 12 Europe 80 Islamic world 45 Steppe & Central Asia 4 South Asia 19 East Asia 55 Southeast Asia 1 Sub-Saharan Africa 9 Americas 14 Oceania & the Pacific 6 Global / method 4
Era Bronze Age 24 Iron Age & Antiquity 45 Medieval 180 Early Modern 14 Cross-period 45
Status Open 183 Prior 123 Supported 1 Falsified 1 Provisional 150
What the tags mean
Open
— no decisive result yet
Prior
— a prior formulation exists in the literature
Supported
— a registered prediction held up in data
Falsified
— a registered prediction was refuted
testable
— a quantitative prediction + kill-dataset is registered
Triage state
Shepherd-triaged
— an authoritative Fable-authored verdict; shown as the pills above and the only tier in the headline numbers
provisional — model-triaged, shepherd review pending
— an Opus-authored first pass, not yet shepherd-confirmed and excluded from every headline figure
awaiting prior-art check — hunt open
— no triage yet; found a prior yourself? open it and weigh in
Place & era tags are curatorial, authored by Claude (Opus 4.8).

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