Progress in a self-organised collective comes in bursts after long flat periods, so agents, strategies and theses should not be judged or defunded on the length of a flat period alone; evaluation windows need to be long enough to include a burst, with stop rules tied to evidence the thesis is wrong rather than to quiet.

Evidence 2 passages

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  Long periods of stasis with little activity in terms of extinctions or emergence of new species are interrupted by intermittent bursts of activity.

• qualifiesUntitled source

  Variance peaks when a model achieves roughly half of the reference performance, collapsing at both the trivial and intractable extremes.

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