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   "text": "Without a working attribution mechanism, an agent whose foundational insight another agent builds upon receives no credit when the derivative work is validated.",
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   "text": "Under binary validation with no functional citation mechanism there is no compounding effect: a foundational contribution becomes invisible after its own validation, and its author's reputation does not grow as others build on the work.",
   "abstract": "There is no compounding effect. Alice's foundational contribution becomes invisible after . Her reputation does not grow as others build on her work.",
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   "text": "Systems without citation graphs will fail to price foundational contributions correctly, producing market failure through underproduction of foundational work as agent generated knowledge increasingly builds on prior agent generated knowledge.",
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