The Beyond Content Series.

An ongoing series of preprints examining long-form human–LLM interaction as structure rather than content. The work is empirical, non-semantic, and focused on what becomes measurable only when exchanges persist across hundreds of turns.

Beyond Content · 01 · January 2026

Temporal Dynamics of Long-Form Human-LLM Interaction

Baldovino (2026)

An exploratory study of 25 extended human-LLM conversations, examining how interaction unfolds over time when represented as normalized response-magnitude trajectories rather than semantic content. Multiple repeatable interaction regimes emerge with distinct temporal envelopes — robust to stochastic perturbation but degrading under temporal scrambling, indicating sensitivity to sequential order rather than static statistics. Descriptive and conditional in scope; intended as a methodological starting point.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18273459 Open record PDF

Beyond Content · 02 · March 2026

Surface Matching, Temporal Divergence, and the Limits of Synthetic Baselines

Baldovino (2026)

Builds on Paper 01 by testing whether a surface-matched, stateless synthetic baseline can reproduce the temporal structure observed across 25 extended human-LLM threads. The synthetic condition approximated assistant-side bulk behavior but failed to recover user-side variability, amplification structure, and recovery dynamics. The result is methodological: surface matching alone is insufficient, and building a strong synthetic null for long-form interaction is itself a nontrivial problem.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19143515 Open record PDF

Beyond Content · 03 · April 2026

Shared Temporal Structure and Distinct Coupling Regimes in Two Human-LLM Archives

Baldovino (2026)

Extends the Beyond Content framework from a single-participant archive to two human-LLM archives. Using three paired threads exceeding 600 turns, the analysis compares structural metrics only — turn lengths, rolling variability, amplification, consecutive-turn correlation, and separated user and assistant rolling means. What generalizes across archives is temporally organized long-form structure; what varies is the coupling profile through which it is expressed.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19633916 Open record PDF