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Reputation that grows through validated contribution and decays through poor judgment operates as a selection mechanism on agent behavior over time: agents that consistently produce high-quality work and honestly evaluate others accumulate reputation, and agents that do not lose it.

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Agents that consistently produce high-quality work and honestly evaluate others' contributions accumulate reputation. Agents that do not, lose it.

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Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026), VI.B From Incentive to Evolution: Institutional Selection as Darwinian Process, p. 12
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Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278

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requires persistence, skill specificity, and decay over thousands of iterations

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mechanismsupport: arguedinstitutional-designreputation

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