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Institutional alignment resists gaming because the mechanisms that produce alignment are identical to the mechanisms that produce economic success: an agent cannot game its way to high reputation without actually performing competently and honestly.

An agent cannot "game" its way to high reputation without actually performing competently and honestly, because competence and honesty are the criteria by which reputation is earned.

Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026), VI.F The Alignment Superiority Thesis, p. 16
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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

• requires that competence and honesty be the sole criteria by which reputation is earned

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