Because validation pools stake the same reputation they earn and vote on protocol change under fixed hard protocols, the system is its own meta-system, reconciling Arrow's bound on preference aggregation with the Folk Theorem's sustained cooperation in an operating system of governance.
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Because validation pools stake the same reputation they earn and vote on protocol change under fixed hard protocols, the system is its own meta-system.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance (2026), VI. Why a Reputation-Weighted Substrate, p. 3 https://ssrn.com/abstract=6886078 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6886078
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governed self-modification without an external meta-system
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