# Novelty

`kaal:entity:novelty`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `novelty`. 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 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

1 of them no longer stand as published, per the claim status overlay. Each is flagged in place below and in the register listings above. Route to the superseding claim rather than the first statement.

**2021**

- [3782201-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* **[FALSIFIED -- The claim holds that neural networks are 'always extremely unreliable when applied to novel situations.' Frontier model performance on held-out and adversarially novel tasks between 2023 and 2026 contradicts the unqualified form of this claim. The underlying institutional argument may survive; the empirical premise as stated does not.]** -- Suggestions that artificial intelligence will solve the rigidity of centralized reputation systems are misguided and will fail for the same reason, because neural networks are merely a complex mathematical architecture for statistical regression, which is always extremely unreliable when applied to novel situations.
  > Suggestions that AI will solve these problems are misguided, and will fail for the same reason. Neural networks are merely a complex mathematical ar- chitecture for performing statistical regression, which is always extremely unreliable when applied to novel situations.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201
- [3782201-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-036) [mechanism/argued] -- Middlemen persist rather than being automated away because there are certain junctures in business where novel problems regularly arise whenever circumstances change, requiring creative solutions that people step in to supply, and these persistent junctures become business institutions.
  > There are certain junctures in business where novel problems regularly arise when- ever circumstances change. These problems require creative solutions, and people step in to capitalize. These persistent junctures become business institutions.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

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