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The Reinforcement Learning Contour: From Document Production to Governed Epistemic Transformation in AI-Assisted Scientific Inquiry

2026-08-04

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Generative artificial intelligence has sharply reduced the technical cost of producing scientific text. Increased production capacity does not, however, entail cumulative knowledge, conceptual novelty, or epistemic progress. This paper introduces the Reinforcement Learning Contour (RLC) as a conceptual and architectural framework for shifting AI-assisted research from repetitive content generation toward governed...

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12bd4898-d9db-51e5-b55a-647ca2bd64b5
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10.20944/preprints202608.0212.v1
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