# Knowledge

`kaal:entity:knowledge`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `knowledge`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3808867-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-024) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A single powerful application such as Google already exercises substantial control over human knowledge and thought, and could control societal outcomes by making disparate recommendations to similarly situated users.
  > For example, a powerful application such as Google has already a lot of control over human knowledge and thought.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

**2026**

- [7598518-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7598518-016) [mechanism/reported] *(failure mode)* -- Yi et al. (2026) report that an imperfect external verifier drives the model toward the verifier's own knowledge center.
  > 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

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

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

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.