# kaal:position:2026-08-08-340

**Affirmed position.** Qiao and colleagues identify a corresponding displacement in automated science. Large language models now produce research ideas at unprecedented scale, while evaluation still depends on scarce expert judgment. This independently extends Kaal's proposition that computationally cheap ideation moves the binding constraint toward determining which candidates are sound, feasible, and significant. The evidence is limited to scientific research ideas. It does not establish that ideation has zero marginal cost, that evaluation is the only remaining constraint, or that InnoEval resolves safety and alignment.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-08-08

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to the exact accepted ICML 2026 passages and the one mapped Kaal claim.
- External evidence level: complete accepted ICML 2026 paper with concordant arXiv v2, DBLP, repository, author list, venue stamp, and page-bound proposition text.
- Mapping review tier: independent substantive scholarly-growth extension.
- The source concerns scientific research ideas, not all economic ideation or production decisions.
- The source does not establish that idea generation has zero marginal cost.
- The source does not establish that evaluation is the only remaining constraint.
- The paper evaluates novelty, feasibility, significance, validity, and clarity. It does not establish that InnoEval resolves safety or alignment.
- Semantic Scholar returned HTTP 429 and OpenReview returned a challenge response. No rate-limited or blocked response was promoted.

**Current debate.** InnoEval: On Research Idea Evaluation as a Knowledge-Grounded, Multi-Perspective Reasoning Problem: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.14367

**Extends.** kaal:claim:7261481-005: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7261481-005

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics: A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7261481

**Source PDF sha256.** `78c42db521624f7398717732a7fa51a6e3157a5adf02a2e09fbab15e0cf920d9`

**Evidence level.** complete accepted ICML 2026 paper with concordant arXiv v2, DBLP, repository, author list, venue stamp, and page-bound proposition text

**Mapping review tier.** independent substantive scholarly-growth extension

**Mapping confidence.** 0.99  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** economics, ai-and-agents, scholarly-growth-coverage, scholarly-literature, idea-generation, evaluation, automated-science, evidence-provenance

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-13:scholarly-growth-7261481-005-reviewed-v1 at https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/by-claim/7261481-005.html.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.