# Sustainability

`kaal:entity:sustainability`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 6 claims that carry the concept tag `sustainability`. 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

6 claims across 6 works, 2012 to 2024.

**2012**

- [2097160-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2097160-025) [mechanism/argued] -- Replacing stock options with contingent convertible bonds both lowers total executive compensation and disincentivizes short-termism and the executive focus on quarterly stock price performance.
  > If stock options are replaced with CCBs, not only would the total compensation for executives be lowered; short-termism and executives' focus on quarterly stock price performance would also be disincentivized.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Contingent Capital in Executive Compensation (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2097160

**2018**

- [3125822-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-025) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A healthy expertise tag requires that fees from new commenters buying in remain smaller in the long term than fees from outside business; otherwise the expertise tag is simply a pyramid scheme.
  > New commenter fees are expected to be smaller than outside business fees in the long term for healthy expertise tags; otherwise the expertise tag is simply a pyramid scheme.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

**2021**

- [3782217-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- From a game theory perspective the open source culture advocated in the Web3 movement is not sustainable in the long term unless it is married with a culture of respect for history.
  > the current open source culture advocated in the WebM movement is not sustainable in the long term. Unless we marry it with a culture of respect for history.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217
- [3931933-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3931933-020) [condition/asserted] -- Any testnet environment depends on proper governance to allocate power fairly and equitably at equilibrium in a sustainable fashion.
  > Any testnet environment depends on proper governance to allocate power fairly and equitably at equilibrium in a sustainable fashion. The Shasper Network accomplishes the need for proper decentralized
  Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

**2024**

- [4855607-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4855607-002) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- The computational cost of improving deep learning performance scales so badly that halving the error rate is estimated to require over five hundred times more computational resources, which raises a sustainability problem for the deep learning paradigm itself.
  > improving deep learning performance increases drastically, with estimates suggesting that halving the error rate would require over 500 times more computational resources. This raises concerns about the sustainability and efficiency of deep learning approaches.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How AI Models are Optimized Through Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4855607
- [5254152-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-005) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Poorly governed DAOs face significant risks of centralization, lack of transparency, and inefficiency, so effective governance structures are a precondition for DAO sustainability.
  > However, poorly governed DAOs face significant risks, including centralization, lack of transparency, and inefficiency.
  Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

## 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/sustainability.md | sha256sum

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