# Weight decay

`kaal:entity:weight-decay`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `weight-decay`. 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 2 works, 2024 to 2025.

**2024**

- [4957318-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-037) [design/asserted] -- 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.
  > Instead, less relevant rules gradually lose weight, allowing them to be revisited if circumstances change, thus maintaining institutional relevance while avoiding hasty or ill-considered decisions.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

**2025**

- [5887242-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-011) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > Each UDLC article or rule exists as an immutable vertex. New rules must cite existing vertices, creating weighted, directed edges that reflect citation frequency, recency, and expert consensus strength. Rarely cited rules experience organic weight decay
  Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242
- [5887242-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-030) [mechanism/argued] -- Rarely cited vertices and edges decay exponentially according to a protocol-defined half-life, mirroring natural desuetude in mature common-law systems but operating continuously and transparently on-chain.
  > Conversely, vertices and edges that are rarely or never cited experience gradual, exponential decay according to a protocol-defined half-life (e.g., 5 % quarterly decay for uncited vertices). This mirrors natural desuetude in mature common-law systems but operates continuously and
  Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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