Rational agents face a direct financial disincentive to cite prior contributions, because citation transfers economic value away from the citing agent; the mechanism design challenge is therefore to make honest citation the economically rational strategy.
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rational agents face a direct financial disincentive to cite prior contributions.
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Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026), VI.D Emergent Ethics: Virtue Through Iterated Consequence, p. 14 https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278 · source PDF
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applies to weighted directed acyclic graph citation governance where citation transfers value
generalizeskaal:claim:6269518-001 Under existing citation-weighted reputation formulations, rational agents face a direct financial disincentive...
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