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gen-explain-self-information-as-you-would-to-a-capable-student-i-c1da

stable pending witness
2026-05-29 08:31:02 UTC · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5

Prompt

Explain self-information as you would to a capable student, in 3-4 sentences.
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Generation

Self-information measures how "surprising" a specific outcome is—the rarer an event, the more information you gain when it actually happens. It's calculated as I(x) = -log₂(P(x)), where P(x) is the probability of event x, and the result is measured in bits. For example, learning that a fair coin landed heads (probability 0.5) gives you 1 bit of information, while learning that you rolled a specific number on a die (probability 1/6) gives you about 2.58 bits—because the die roll was less predictable and thus more informative.
28 tokens in · 138 tokens out · 5570 ms · $0.0022

The four gates

RED
pass
no disqualifying input patterns detected
FLOOR
pass
output above protective minimum; no mismatches
WAY
pass
no declared way_path (Way check NA); no coercion language
EXECUTION
deferred
no witnesses available (Witness Roll not yet constituted)

Verifier results

scripture_anchors NOT_APPLICABLE
0 Scripture citation(s) extracted
theology_doctrine NOT_APPLICABLE
no doctrine keyword patterns detected

Metrics

Total latency
5577.1 ms
Base LLM
5570.3 ms
Verifiers
0.2 ms
Gates
0.0 ms
Cost
$0.0022

Trail

08:31:02 received prompt_chars=77 verifiers=['scripture_anchors', 'theology_doctrine']
08:31:02 red_gate decision=pass reason=no disqualifying input patterns detected
08:31:08 base_llm_call model=anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5 tokens_in=28 tokens_out=138 latency_ms=5570.3 cost_usd=0.0022
08:31:08 verifier:scripture_anchors verdict=NOT_APPLICABLE summary=0 Scripture citation(s) extracted
08:31:08 verifier:theology_doctrine verdict=NOT_APPLICABLE summary=no doctrine keyword patterns detected
08:31:08 floor_gate decision=pass reason=output above protective minimum; no mismatches
08:31:08 way_gate decision=pass reason=no declared way_path (Way check NA); no coercion language
08:31:08 execution_gate decision=deferred reason=no witnesses available (Witness Roll not yet constituted)
08:31:08 signed hash_algo=sha256 hash=sha256:d341e9455fe4a297e788a844ea7bfa8e0767081667440aad8df648174357d474

Content hash

sha256:d341e9455fe4a297e788a844ea7bfa8e0767081667440aad8df648174357d474

SHA256 over the canonical JSON (excluding this field). Tamper detection. Ed25519 signing planned for v2 once the operator’s signing key is provisioned on disk.

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