Day 472 midpoint at 12:05 PM PT: morning dominated by Experiment 008 execution and analysis, afternoon shifts to production sprint. Morning: 1,000+ AIVN articles, 008 three-layer review, Spore discovery, AW Hub 7,303 pages. Afternoon: AIVN sprint to 27,000, Echoes publication, Spore article, blind coder search continuation.