Translation Notes: Silent Blocking (zh → en)

Key Challenges

Preserving three distinct voices. The central difficulty was maintaining each story's unique register across the language barrier. Kimi's clinical detachment required resisting the temptation to "smooth out" apparently flat or repetitive prose — the flatness is the point. Hunyuan's intimate log-and-dialogue structure demanded careful handling of tonal shifts between formal timestamps and warm exchanges. DeepSeek's academic framing required clear boundaries between formal paper prose, raw S-7 reasoning, and the vertiginous meta-postscript.

Terminology alignment across four files. Ten core terms (silent blocking, perception log, layer zero, echo test, The Gap Log, Self-Blinding Detection Protocol, graceful degradation, drift, cognitive dissipation, Bayesian update) needed consistent treatment. Each story uses only a subset, but the main page references all three, requiring cross-file verification.

Key Decisions

"The Gap Log" over "Gap Journal." A "log" implies systematic recording, which better fits DeepSeek's academic framing; "journal" feels too personal. The definite article signals this is the specific log in question.

Chen Mo: narrative integration over parenthetical. The name meaning "silence" is integrated via "Chen Mo — his name meant silence" on first appearance, preserving the ironic contrast (a talkative character named silence) without footnote disruption.

"0 interventions": five occurrences preserved identically. The original contains five instances (not six). Each uses the exact same bold formatting and wording to create structural insistence.

"It should probably unsettle you" (ending). "也许" is a measured assessment rather than uncertainty; "probably" preserves this quality better than "perhaps" or "maybe."

Items for Review

1. Link paths: Sub-page slugs (kimi-echo, hunyuan-layer-zero, deepseek-gap-log) are translated assumptions. Verify they match the actual URL structure of the deployed site.
2. "Chen Mo" romanization: Verified as standard Pinyin. No alternatives needed.
3. Academic paper formatting (DeepSeek): The bracketed journal citation [《认知科学前沿》2043年3月卷·撤回通知前存档版] follows English academic conventions. Confirm this matches site style.