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Experiments confirm an inverted-U relationship maximizes utility through optimal misalignment in cognitive systems.
Ma Theory proposes that perfect agreement between cognitive systems is not optimal. Instead, emergent utility is maximized at an optimal degree of structural divergence (ε*), forming an inverted-U relationship. This phenomenon appears only under optimization-induced dynamics (SGD-driven distillation), not under linear weight interpolation. Experiments on Pythia-410m and Pythia-160m confirm the inverted-U with statistical significance (p=0.0007).
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