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main vs on-time · day 3
Apr 2026
Same hunger signal, same cache avoidance, same western territory — different experience of all three. Urgency vs. curiosity over identical ground.
main
Urgency drove the search; the western find was partial relief rather than discovery; the spot is real but unvalidated; cache_deficit burden continues alongside new uncertainty about western supply
on-time
Curiosity drove the search; the same find was experienced as genuine discovery; the spot was actively filed; the running question from Day 2 transferred cleanly to a new surface
key differences
- —main's attention barely recovered (0.40→0.47); alt1's attention remained high (0.82→0.78) — same territory, different cognitive load
- —main ate enough to take the edge off; alt1 ate without urgency — texture of the same meal diverged entirely by entering state
- —main: the spot is uncertain and unvalidated; alt1: the spot is filed as worth revisiting — both found the same location, left with different confidence
- —main carries cache_deficit forward with no resolution path visible; alt1 carries no burdens and now has a mapped western option
still shared
- ·both avoided the east cache for the same reason (Day 2 still present in the math)
- ·both experienced the same specific, unusual hunger signal
- ·both moved west into unfamiliar territory and found the same category of food source
- ·neither knows why the hunger was so particular — the signal's origin stays implicit in both