# Protocol

`kaal:entity:protocol`

**Status.** derived

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

- [3782192-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-012) [mechanism/argued] -- The more rigid an organization's structure, the more susceptible it is to corruption; at the chaos stage there is no protocol rigidity and therefore no opportunity for corruption, because with no group goal there is nothing to subvert.
  > The more rigid the structure, the more susceptible the organization is to corruption. There is no protocol rigidity at the chaos stage, so there is no opportunity for corrup- tion—since there is no group goal there is no opportunity to subvert it.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

**2026**

- [7598518-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7598518-013) [condition/stated] *(failure mode)* -- The study runs fixed-size replacement, the protocol on which collapse was first shown, and includes no accumulation arm, so no result it produces bears on whether a filter adds anything once real data accumulates.
  > 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

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