kaal:claim:6244278-020

High-reputation agents are precisely those who have demonstrated consistent honest judgment under conditions where dishonesty was possible but costly, which is closer to Aristotelian virtue acquired through practice than to a programmed ethical rule.

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The high-reputation agents in any domain are precisely those who have demonstrated consistent honest judgment under conditions where dishonesty was possible but costly.

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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.D Emergent Ethics: Virtue Through Iterated Consequence, p. 14
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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

Holds when

dishonesty must be available but economically penalized
requires repeated practice over many iterations

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedreputation

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