Distributed Discovery

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The Common-Source Trap

Explains why many reports can still behave like one source of evidence.

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Nakajima, Yohei (2026). The Common-Source Trap. Working paper.

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@misc{Nakajima2026CommonSourceTrap,
  author       = {Yohei Nakajima},
  title        = {The Common-Source Trap: Endogenous Independent Evidence in Distributed Discovery},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Working paper},
  url          = {https://yoheinakajima.github.io/distributed-discovery/publications/common-source-trap.html},
  note         = {No DOI; validated public research artifact}
}

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OR/MS

Common-Source Trap

endogenous source concentration under shared discovery credit

homogeneous one-shot equal-prize model

Economics / AGT

Common-Source Trap

strategic over-acquisition of correlated information

static declared payoff game

Multi-agent AI

Common-Source Trap

multiple agents choose evidence routes that share one latent source

unevaluated agent-system analogy

Practitioner

Common-Source Trap

many reports can still be one source in disguise

model insight not provenance measurement

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