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   "text": "Obsolescence in the WDAG system is expressed as gradual loss of weight rather than deletion, which keeps rules revisitable if circumstances change and avoids hasty or ill considered removal decisions.",
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   "text": "Political resistance to repeal dissolves under the WDAG model because a rule that loses substantial backing simply diminishes in relevance through the citation mechanism, with no external legislative act of repeal to contest.",
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   "text": "Linking every contributor action and every piece of data to on-chain governance elements within a structured graph is what enables real-time community oversight, iterative updates, and granular reputation tracking in the WDAG model.",
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   "text": "Mapping governance rules as nodes and their relationships as weighted directed edges yields a dynamic, traceable, and adaptable governance structure whose acyclic form prevents governance deadlocks by admitting no circular dependencies.",
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   "text": "The WDAG-based governance system maps one-to-one onto the UDLC's constitutional requirements, so the architecture is not an add-on but a structural isomorph of the Codex's own mandates.",
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   "text": "The WDAG itself constitutes an evolutionary precedent system: each rule is an immutable vertex, new rules must cite existing vertices to create weighted directed edges reflecting citation frequency, recency and expert consensus strength, and rarely cited rules decay organically.",
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   "text": "The citation-weighted payment mechanism in multi-agent settings effectively operates with an implicit leaching parameter of one, since every unit of citation-weighted value conferred on another agent is a unit lost to the citing agent, which is a maximally punitive setting.",
   "abstract": "The citation-weighted payment mechanism in multi-agent settings effectively operates with an implicit q4 = 1: every unit of citation-weighted value conferred on another agent is a unit lost to the citing agent. This is a maximally punitive leaching parameter,",
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   "text": "Because a negative reference challenging under-attribution propagates through the graph, exposing one agent's uncited reliance devalues later posts that cited that agent, so revaluation cascades through the WDAG as the framework intends.",
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