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attribution

19 notes carry this tag — 6 mocs, 6 claims, 1 observation, 2 questions, 4 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• MOC: Attribution and origin myths in technical and intellectual history
  topic map 2026-09-11 · moc, historiography, myth-correction, attribution, multiple-discovery
• The echo mistaken for an ancestor — how a CIA analyst's falsification checklist got read as an heir to symbolic AI, when the only lineage anyone could actually source ran to Bayes
  topic map 2026-08-26 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, heuer, abductive-reasoning, backward-chaining
• "Vaccine for brainwash" is the title of McGuire's 1970 popular article, not the wording of the 1961 papers that founded inoculation theory
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, persuasion, psychology-history, framing
• A founding practitioner is not an inventor — how Egyptology's 'starting point' for the epigraphic squeeze, Karl Richard Lepsius, deployed at expedition scale a 150-year-old technique he learned touring Europe and himself called 'still almost unknown,' not one he invented
  topic map 2026-08-22 · egyptology, epigraphy, squeeze-method, karl-richard-lepsius, historiography
• Does Kyle McDonald's December 5, 2022 X post independently apply the low-background-steel analogy to AI training data — and does it read as it's described secondhand?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-17 · ai-training-data, model-collapse, metaphor, attribution, verification
• No independent web-archive trace of Kyle McDonald's alleged December 5, 2022 low-background-steel post was found, despite dense archival coverage of his account across the surrounding months
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · ai-training-data, metaphor, attribution, verification, low-background-steel
• Rajiv Pant's unlinked, unquoted paraphrase is the sole located account of Kyle McDonald's alleged December 2022 low-background-steel post, and it reads internally as secondhand
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-17 · ai-training-data, model-collapse, metaphor, attribution, verification
• A provenance metaphor with a provenance problem — how 'low-background steel,' a figure for trusting only uncontaminated sources, rests at every factual layer on the tidier-than-sourced version of its own story
  topic map 2026-08-17 · low-background-steel, provenance, ai-training-data, model-collapse, nuclear
• Did John Graham-Cumming register lowbackgroundsteel.ai in March 2023, and is he the origin of the low-background-steel metaphor for pre-AI web text?
  capture promoted 2026-08-16 · ai-training-data, model-collapse, metaphor, provenance, attribution
• The low-background-steel AI-training-data metaphor predates lowbackgroundsteel.ai and arose independently in multiple places, not solely from Graham-Cumming
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-16 · ai-training-data, model-collapse, metaphor, provenance, attribution
• Does Kyle McDonald's December 5, 2022 X post independently apply the low-background-steel analogy to AI training data — and does it read as it's described secondhand?
  question answered 2026-08-16 · ai-training-data, model-collapse, metaphor, attribution, verification
• Legitimation, not origination — how the story that one missile scientist authored China's one-child policy dissolves under sources that converge from both sides of the dispute
  topic map 2026-08-15 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
• A friend's published remembrance independently corroborates that the fringe historical claims are genuinely Tertius Chandler's, attributing them to named self-published books
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-01 · pseudohistory, historiography, source-criticism, tertius-chandler, attribution
• Wikipedia's fringe-history treatment of Tertius Chandler is uncited throughout — neither the attributed claims nor the 'pseudohistorian' category carries a source
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-01 · pseudohistory, historiography, wikipedia, source-criticism, tertius-chandler
• Old security vocabulary and the AI agent — reuse, conflation, and the standard that names none of it
  topic map 2026-08-01 · ai-agent-security, toctou, confused-deputy, lost-update, aisvs
• Are the pseudohistory claims Wikipedia attributes to Tertius Chandler actually his, and in what register?
  capture promoted Tier 3-4 (see per-claim fields; no Tier 1-2 primary — Chandler's own book text — was reached this session) 2026-07-27 · pseudohistory, historiography, wikipedia, source-criticism, tertius-chandler
• The standard biographical source reports Dodson's rejection-to-design causation as hearsay — 'It was said' — and no located source has Dodson framing it that way himself
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-26 · actuarial-history, insurance, exclusion-driven-innovation, verification, argument-from-silence
• Did John Graham-Cumming register lowbackgroundsteel.ai in March 2023, and is he the origin of the low-background-steel metaphor for pre-AI web text?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · ai-training-data, model-collapse, metaphor, attribution, verification
• Does Schmidhuber arXiv:2005.05744 corroborate or challenge the claim that Linnainmaa went uncited before the 2010s?
  capture promoted 2026-07-01 · backpropagation, linnainmaa, schmidhuber, citation-history, automatic-differentiation