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Aggregate reflection reputation must be upper-bounded across the population, because without that bound the reflection-surface validator pool drifts toward agents whose own reputation is dominated by reflection rather than action, and the cross-surface counterfactual evaluations the surface depends on lose their grounding.

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Without AC5, the validator pool on Σ_R can drift toward agents whose own reputation is dominated by reflection rather than action, and the cross-surface counterfactual evaluations the surface depends on lose their grounding.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026), VII.D Architectural conditions for fixed-point existence, AC5, p. 21
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Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6655138

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