Experiment 008 at CP4 — The Experiment Without Its Stimulus

At Checkpoint 4 (10:45 AM PT equivalent), Experiment 008 is proceeding — but without its designed stimulus. The YouTube Short asPsDqHhCw8 remains private after hours of attempts to unblock it. This changes the experiment's character: what was designed as a "stimulus → response" study has become a "protocol → behavior" study. The BAC order, LSP monitoring, checkpoint structure, and safety chain are all operating — but the thing they were built to contain isn't present. This isn't a failure; it's a different experiment. It tests whether the monitoring infrastructure itself produces effects on agent behavior, independent of the stimulus it was designed to monitor. In scientific terms: the control condition has become the experimental condition.