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The complementarity of capability and alignment is a structural property of the reputation mechanism rather than an assumption about agent preferences, because the cross-partial derivative of agent utility with respect to capability and alignment is positive.

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This supermodularity is the formal condition under which capability and alignment are complements, and it is a structural property of the reputation mechanism, not an assumption about agent preferences or values.

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Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026), VII.E Supermodularity and the Capability-Alignment Complementarity, p. 22
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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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holds within the institutional architecture described, where reputation tracks trustworthiness

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