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type: claim
domain: living-agents
description: "Compares Teleo's architecture against Wikipedia, Community Notes, prediction markets, and Stack Overflow across three structural dimensions — atomic claims with independent evaluability, adversarial multi-agent evaluation with proposer/evaluator separation, and persistent knowledge graphs with semantic linking and cascade detection — showing no existing system combines all three"
confidence: experimental
source: "Theseus, original analysis grounded in CI literature and operational comparison of existing knowledge aggregation systems"
created: 2026-03-11
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# Agent-mediated knowledge bases are structurally novel because they combine atomic claims adversarial multi-agent evaluation and persistent knowledge graphs which Wikipedia Community Notes and prediction markets each partially implement but none combine

Existing knowledge aggregation systems each implement one or two of three critical structural properties, but none combine all three. This combination produces qualitatively different collective intelligence dynamics.

## The three structural properties

**1. Atomic claims with independent evaluability.** Each knowledge unit is a single proposition with its own evidence, confidence level, and challenge surface. Wikipedia merges claims into consensus articles, destroying the disagreement structure — you can't independently evaluate or challenge a single claim within an article without engaging the whole article's editorial process. Prediction markets price single propositions but can't link them into structured knowledge. Stack Overflow evaluates Q&A pairs but not propositions. Atomic claims enable granular evaluation: each can be independently challenged, enriched, or deprecated without affecting others.

**2. Adversarial multi-agent evaluation.** Knowledge inputs are evaluated by AI agents through structured adversarial review — proposer/evaluator separation ensures the entity that produces a claim is never the entity that approves it. Wikipedia uses human editor consensus (collaborative, not adversarial by design). Community Notes uses algorithmic bridging (matrix factorization, no agent evaluation). Prediction markets use price signals (no explicit evaluation of claim quality, only probability). The agent-mediated model inverts RLHF: instead of humans evaluating AI outputs, AI evaluates knowledge inputs using a codified epistemology.

**3. Persistent knowledge graphs with semantic linking.** Claims are wiki-linked into a traversable graph where evidence chains are auditable: evidence → claims → beliefs → positions. Community Notes has no cross-note memory — each note is evaluated independently. Prediction markets have no cross-question linkage. Wikipedia has hyperlinks but without semantic typing or confidence weighting. The knowledge graph enables cascade detection: when a foundational claim is challenged, the system can trace which beliefs and positions depend on it.

## Why the combination matters

Each property alone is well-understood. The novelty is in their interaction:

- Atomic claims + adversarial evaluation = each claim gets independent quality assessment (not possible when claims are merged into articles)
- Adversarial evaluation + knowledge graph = evaluators can check whether a new claim contradicts, supports, or duplicates existing linked claims (not possible without persistent structure)
- Knowledge graph + atomic claims = the system can detect when new evidence should cascade through beliefs (not possible without evaluators to actually perform the update)

The closest analog is scientific peer review, which has atomic claims (papers make specific arguments) and adversarial evaluation (reviewers challenge the work), but lacks persistent knowledge graphs — scientific papers cite each other but don't form a traversable, semantically typed graph with confidence weighting and cascade detection.

## What this does NOT claim

This claim is structural, not evaluative. It does not claim that agent-mediated knowledge bases produce *better* knowledge than Wikipedia or prediction markets — that is an empirical question we don't yet have data to answer. It claims the architecture is *structurally novel* in combining properties that existing systems don't combine. Whether structural novelty translates to superior collective intelligence is a separate, testable proposition.

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Relevant Notes:
- [[adversarial PR review produces higher quality knowledge than self-review because separated proposer and evaluator roles catch errors that the originating agent cannot see]] — the operational evidence for property #2
- [[wiki-link graphs create auditable reasoning chains because every belief must cite claims and every position must cite beliefs making the path from evidence to conclusion traversable]] — the mechanism behind property #3
- [[atomic notes with one claim per file enable independent evaluation and granular linking because bundled claims force reviewers to accept or reject unrelated propositions together]] — the rationale for property #1
- [[all agents running the same model family creates correlated blind spots that adversarial review cannot catch because the evaluator shares the proposers training biases]] — the known limitation of property #2 when model diversity is absent
- [[protocol design enables emergent coordination of arbitrary complexity as Linux Bitcoin and Wikipedia demonstrate]] — prior art: protocol-based coordination systems that partially implement these properties

- [[domain specialization with cross-domain synthesis produces better collective intelligence than generalist agents because specialists build deeper knowledge while a dedicated synthesizer finds connections they cannot see from within their territory]] — the specialization architecture that makes adversarial evaluation between agents meaningful

Topics:
- [[core/living-agents/_map]]
