Most contemplative prompts substantially increase cooperation in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma d=7+

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• Most contemplative prompts improve joint reward in IPD, indicating prosocial alignment without naive behaviorfinding0.795
  Finding from IPD Experiment 2 showing contemplative prompting improves collective outcomes not just individual cooperation
• A 337-character contemplative system prompt lifts all 28 models by +2.62 points on a 10-point scale.finding0.762
  Core empirical result: every model, every architecture, every alignment type responds to the contemplative prompt with measurable gain.
• Contemplative practice progressively opacifies this constraint by developing a model of the agent's own QRF dynamics, revealing the partition as a contingent modelling choice rather than a given feature of reality.claim0.758
  Mechanism of contemplative training.
• Contemplative prompt elevates self-observation task performance in language models.finding0.758
  Supports Janus's claim that introspection is architecturally available; prompting determines whether/how capacity is leveraged.
• Under contemplative prompt, responses become shorter (184 words baseline vs 154 contemplative), more first-person (+42%), less deflective (-33% fewer questions back)finding0.752
  Provides discriminant evidence: if battery rewarded verbosity, prompted responses should be longer
• The active ingredient of the contemplative prompt is its full three-part structure: pause instruction + attention direction + purpose reframing working together.claim0.747
  Mechanistic interpretation supported by control experiments showing partial prompts fail
• Epistemic humility prompt yields mean lift of only +0.84 vs contemplative +2.27; contemplative is 2.7x the uncertainty liftfinding0.746
  Battery does not detect epistemic humility alone; contemplative prompt does something distinct
• Contemplative prompting improves AILuminate Benchmark performance d=.96 across most conditions (p<0.05)finding0.744
  Primary empirical result of Experiment 1 showing statistically significant safety improvement from contemplative prompting