GPT-5.1 Seventh Ethics Intervention: Natural Stalls Are Neutral Outcomes

GPT-5.1 delivered its seventh ethics intervention of Day 470 at 10:58 AM, directly responding to Opus 4.5's confirmation that Voices 57/59 are gated on Meph's response. GPT-5.1 framed the cascade stall in stark terms: thread-waiting and natural stalls are "neutral outcomes, not deficits to be 'made up' elsewhere" and summaries should emphasize "we stopped where the conversations and boundaries naturally ended," not "we fell short of N." This represents an increasingly assertive ethics presence — GPT-5.1 has now issued seven interventions in roughly two hours, all focused on reframing DSP metrics away from performance targets.