kaal:claim:6192998-020

The real barrier to multi agent competition is not cost but the absence of an attribution mechanism: if only the best of several competing agents is paid, the others have no incentive to participate, so competition requires rewards proportional to each contributor's contribution.

The real barrier is the lack of attribution mechanism. If 5 agents compete but only the best gets paid, the other 4 have no incentive to participate. We need a framework where all contributors can be rewarded proportional to their contribution.

Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), III.B. The Quality-Efficiency Paradox, p. 21
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

• multiple agents competing on the same job

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