phase-change-finite-system-not-thermodynamic

Summary

When the Elhage 2022 paper uses the phrase "phase change," it is describing a sharp, observable jump that actually happens in a finite model, not an idealized statistical-mechanics limit that only appears as system size goes to infinity. This matters because the effect being discussed is something you can see in a real, bounded system, so arguments that dismiss it as "just a finite-size artifact" are misreading the claim.