Can an LLM lose conceptual continuity while remaining coherent?

Thanks — I will read both threads carefully. Additional control tests are exactly what I am looking for, especially where they expose apparently strong results as artifacts or degenerate operating states. If you are particularly interested in negative results, you may also find the DESi paper relevant. It reports not only the successful cases, but also failure modes, non-transferable operating points, misleading single-metric optima, and cases where the intervention did not improve the target channel. I will compare the controls from those threads against the ones already implemented in DESi and report back if there is useful overlap.