# Experiment

`kaal:entity:experiment`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `experiment`. 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

4 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3782198-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-038) [empirical/evidenced] -- The r/place experiment showed that anonymous groups can self correct: each time a hate symbol such as a swastika appeared on the shared canvas, it was replaced with something more positive.
  > In the end, however, each time a hate symbol cropped up, it was replaced with something more positive.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**2026**

- [7596939-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7596939-022) [condition/stated] *(failure mode)* -- The Article disclaims three specific inferences its own experiment cannot support: that deployed agents value their records, that real representatives are bribable, and that direct standing is least-cost in any actual registry.
  > Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939
- [7596939-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7596939-023) [empirical/reported] -- The experiment was pre-registered and time-stamped before any registered episode ran, with design, prompts and analysis code frozen in advance.
  > Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939
- [7598518-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7598518-020) [condition/stated] -- Reputation in this experiment is settled once against a key before training, so the pool is supervised reweighting from a disjoint key, and the paper does not compare it with a key-free latent-variable aggregator.
  > Intelligence models increasingly learn from data that earlier Intelligence models produced, and when that loop repeats the rare cases disappear first. This paper preregisters a test of whether a reputation-weighted validator pool, filtering the training data of a recursive replacement loop, keeps those rare cases alive. The outcomes remain sealed until a replication of the original model-collapse result succeeds.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7598518

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/experiment.md | sha256sum

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