hedge-erosion

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Greenberg's 2009 BMJ citation-network study names "citation transmutation" — a hedge dropped at the point of citation, hardening a hypothesis into unqualified fact

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · citation-analysis, citation-distortion, hedge-erosion, attribution-drift, bibliometrics
Schmidhuber states the 1914 Torres y Quevedo 'first practical AI' claim unhedged, unlike a comparable priority claim he hedges elsewhere in the same paper

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, torres-y-quevedo, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, priority-dispute