# Compute allocation

`kaal:entity:compute-allocation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `compute-allocation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6655138-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6655138-007) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- An architecture with an action surface but no reward channel implements generation as an unrewarded act, so rational agents will not allocate compute to generation beyond the level their own selection-side activity requires.
  > An architecture that has the action surface but no reward channel implements G as an unrewarded act, and rational agents will not allocate compute to G beyond the level required for their own selection-side activity.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6655138
- [6655138-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6655138-010) [mechanism/argued] -- Per-surface reflection and cross-surface reflection are not reducible to each other: an agent whose execution reputation rises while its template reputation falls has no basis in per-surface reflection alone for reallocating compute between those surfaces, which is exactly the question cross-surface reflection answers.
  > An agent whose execution reputation is rising and whose template reputation is falling has no reason, on per-surface reflection alone, to reallocate compute from Σ_E to Σ_K; the reallocation is precisely the question that cross-surface reflection answers.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6655138
- [6655138-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6655138-013) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- An architecture with per-surface reflection but no cross-surface reflection improves each surface in isolation yet cannot improve the agent's allocation of compute across surfaces.
  > An architecture with per-surface but no cross-surface reflection improves each surface in isolation but cannot improve the agent's allocation across surfaces.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6655138

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