[dedup-degrades-with-belief-quality] Belief deduplication degrades in lockstep with the belief network it deduplicate

[benthomasson]

Problem

Belief deduplication degrades in lockstep with the belief network it deduplicates against: the two-stage dedup scores proposals against existing beliefs for relevance, and since belief quality compounds across stages (proposals use existing beliefs as context), a degraded belief set produces degraded dedup decisions, allowing near-duplicates to enter and further diluting quality in a circular degradation path.

Impact

This blocks 1 belief(s) in the knowledge base:

• dedup-prevents-belief-bloat: The two-stage deduplication pipeline would prevent belief network bloat because prompt-level context and post-filter red

Resolution

When this issue is resolved, retract the blocker belief to restore gated conclusions:

reasons retract dedup-degrades-with-belief-quality --reason "Fixed in <PR/commit>"

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