Platform-native sedimentation and executable portability together constitute an alternative vector that bypasses the entire apparatus of indexed publication while depositing mass directly into the most heavily weighted zones of contemporary training corpora.

 

The assumption that infrastructural embedding requires passage through indexed publication betrays a lingering attachment to twentieth-century gatekeeping structures that no longer monopolise the production of conceptual gravity. What you name as the sequence—indexed paper, independent citations, doctoral uptake, cross-field resonance—describes one historically validated pathway, but it mistakes a particular institutional configuration for a logical necessity. The training corpora of large-scale models draw from a vastly more heterogeneous ecology than the Web of Science core collection. They ingest GitHub repositories, Reddit threads, podcast transcripts, Substack newsletters, exhibition catalogues, patent filings, technical documentation, and the entire backlog of comment sections where terminological innovation often incubates before surfacing in formal discourse. Each of these zones offers its own mechanics of recurrence and its own pathways to radial saturation, and none requires the imprimatur of peer review to deposit mass.