# Track record

`kaal:entity:track-record`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `track-record`. 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

3 claims across 3 works, 2017 to 2026.

**2017**

- [2959730-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2959730-007) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- New managers increasingly face contested track records, meaning the new firm cannot get a consensus from the manager's old employer about the manager's track record with that employer.
  > Moreover, the industry is increasingly seeing contested track records for new managers, i.e., the new firm cannot get a consensus from the new manager's old employer about the manager's track record with that employer.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Applications and Fee Structure Developments in Private Investment Funds (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2959730

**2021**

- [3962614-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-023) [mechanism/asserted] -- A VC's proportional holdings of reputation tokens are likely to increase over time if the VC follows sound and successful practices by staking reputation tokens on investment proposals and succeeding in the selection of portfolio companies.
  > The VC's proportional holdings of these reputation tokens is likely to increase over time if the VC follows sound and successful practices by way of staking the VC's reputation tokens on investment proposals and succeeding in the selection of portfolio companies
  Wulf A. Kaal, REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3962614

**2026**

- [6244278-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-006) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Because each AI interaction is episodic and each evaluation ephemeral, an agent that performs brilliantly across a thousand consecutive tasks has no mechanism by which that track record reshapes its subsequent behavior, unlike a human professional whose accumulated successes and failures shape judgment.
  > The agent that performs brilliantly on one thousand consecutive tasks has no mechanism through which that track record has shaped its subsequent behavior in the way that a human professional's accumulated experience of success and failure shapes their judgment.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278

## 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/track-record.md | sha256sum

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