# Pilots

`kaal:entity:pilots`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `pilots`. 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, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5454054-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5454054-038) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- The retention uplifts claimed for LER remain unvalidated: empirical pilots are needed to confirm them and to refine the smart contract designs, particularly for AI-personalized airdrops.
  > Empirical pilots are needed to validate retention uplifts and refine smart contract designs.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Liquid Equity Rewards (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5454054

**2026**

- [7598518-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7598518-035) [empirical/stated] *(failure mode)* -- The preregistered pilot meant to confirm that every arm completes was never run, the confirmatory seeds ran without it, and the paper states that their later completion does not cure the skipped gate.
  > 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/pilots.md | sha256sum

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